My computer stopped booting into Windows, which I admit is largely my fault
since I don't take good care of my OS (can't remember the last time I scanned
for adware or viruses). Anyway, it wouldn't boot, so I went ahead and put in
my legally obtained copy of Windows XP Pro w/ SP2 ...

I relative of a friend needs to have their system wiped and rebuilt due to
horrific malware problems.  They live several states away and my friend was
just there.  After hearing of their problems and what a local computer shop
was going to charge for the service I suggested my ...

I would like to install win xp home edition but it will not detect my hard
drive. I read some post that said download load drivers from the windows site
but i do not have a floopy drive for when i press f6. Is there any other way?

I moved the hard drive from my old computer to my new computer and, upon
installation of the old hard drive and attempting to login to Windows XP, I
was told to activate my WindowsXP Home OS.  I attemted to do so by internet,
but my ethernet drivers apparently weren't working ...

I need to repartition the HD that is in my system.  What software do you
suggest?
I'm going to move my data away from the OS and apps so my defrgs won't take
so long.  Is there a rule of thumb to determine the size of the OS and apps

After my old ide hard drive failed, i bought a new 120gb sata drive to
install windows xp pro on. I had to borrow a floppy drive to install the sata
drivers but the install worked.
After it booted up and and asked for me to create an account, i shut the pc

How can I restore my display settings to default settings?
My screen is too big and so are my icons, and I don not know what numbers
the different settings are suppose to be on.
Thanks

I installed windows xp over windows 2000 over windows 98 as windows 98 became
corrupt after trojan.alemod infection.  Windows 2000 is on a seperate drive
but when I boot i am asked which o/s i want to use.  I select windows xp (on
same drive as windows 98) and start up screen ...

I've been reading the help forum some time but not found quite what I'm
looking for, hence my question:
My physical harddisk is currently partitioned into a few partitions. On C: I
originally had W98 and then installed XP on D: and had them both available

If I have an oem Windows XP cd and I use it
to install on 5 different Dell computers but I
use the keyID from the stickers on each machine,
is there any information on the computers that

I have a space problem on my system drive.
- so i decided to move the whole profil directory to another partition.
i have an "Administrator" and "Programming" acccount.
- moved the directory via xcopy

Two HDDs, one with XP and other with Linux.
I appear to have overwritten the boot stuff on the XP with Linux code.
How can I recover?
Dirk

Guys,
I need help. I bought an IBM ThinkCentre preloaded with Windows XP Pro. For
many reasons, my OS got corrupted and I had no back up then. Due to the
stupidity of some of my friends, they reinstalled a Windows XP pro...with a

I have a legal copy of Windows XP Home Ed and recently obtained a
unmountable boot error.  I ran the known fixes (chkdsk /p, fixmbr, etc)
and it booted with errors.  Ok, fine I'll just do a clean install.
Problem is with every install attempt it gets through the ms-dos

We need to deploy a large batch of OEM computers from Gateway. As everyone
knows, these computers come with other programs that are often not needed by
business end-users (such as Quicken, PC Doctor, etc.). Plus, we need to add
things like our own business software, Antivirus and ...