I recently installed a second hard drive just to store recovered files that I
was searching for and didn't want another person looking through them. Should
I or can I install windows on this hard drive and then use this hard drive
and its version of windows as my own private ...

I recently added a SATA HD, I now re-sized one volume down, and added
another(third) volume, and assigned a drive letter- H: to it. Now, the new H:
drive doesn't show in "My Computer", if I log on normally, however, it does
show if I log on as Admin. in "Safe Mode". I remember ...

so i got a new hard drive and went to install windows XP. it worked fine
untill the graphical portion showed up. it gave me an error with the
installation and told me to repair it. but then while im repairing it it
tells me that it cannot read a part of the disk and has to abort ...

Ok here is the background details:
1.  Upgrading form XP home to XP pro
2.  At 34 minutes into the setup an error box pops up and
says that the file intel(R) extreme graphics windows

I've had trouble getting one of my drives to accept the SP2 upgrade (it was
small anyway) so I bought another and attempted an install, no luck - some of
the files won't install.  I'm wondering if I've exceeded some kind of install
limit, since I've also been trying to unscrew ...

Hi. I wish to format and re-install Windows XP Pro. So I like to know that do
I need to go through the product activation again after re-installing
windows? Thanks.

Do I need to run the FASTW for each user on a pc or will it backup all users
by being run once?

During install, I get this "fatal" error message:
SXS.DLL: Syntax error in manifest or policy file
"D:\I386\asms\52\MSFT\WINDOWS\NET\DXMRTP\DXMRTP.MAN" on line 5.
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I just built my new computer. I have a abit AX8 motherboard, amd Athlon
64 3500+, Samsung 160GB SATA hard drive.
I just finished installing Windows. Windows installed alright. Except
setup recognized my hard drive as drive E: Its my first SATA hard

I've just tried to upgrade from Windows 2000 to XP Pro.
The install didn't finish properly, and now the computer gets into a loop -
the Windows welcome screen appears for a few seconds, with the moving dots
along the bottom, then the screen goes blank and the machine reboots. ...

I just loaded windows xp pro over windows 98. I chose to do the full install
on not upgrade. However there are still files and programs that are still
there from windows 98.
What I really want to do is erase everything and then load windows xp pro. I

Im installing a copy of windows xp pro, during istall of files i keep getting
these messages saying cant install file this or that for example and this is
one of the files cant install file wpdusb.sys press enter to retry. I try the
retry but it does not install the file. It does ...

I just installed windows xp professional on a pent. II. For some reason my
modem is disabled by firmware.
The msg is:
CODE 29 -  the modem has been disabled because firmware did not give it the