I have a brand new Dell 9100 w/ XP Home that I want to wipe. It works fine.
When trying to install XP Pro SP1a, it fails with "Setup did not find any
hard disk drives installed in your computer".
I have a 160 gig SATA drive. Shouldn't it automatically discover it?

my computer crashed and I had the mother board replaced.  When I went to
start up the computer, it had no operating system, which prior to the board
being replaced was xp professional.  when I start up it takes me to set up
and asks for the xp disk.  We did not save the key code ...

I recently cloned my existing hard drive, via Drive Image 7.0, to a new
larger disk. The new disk boots WIndows XP Pro just fine. However, when
I try to log into any account the usual start-up message "Loading your
personal settings ...", is displayed for just for a split-second. ...

I am not an expert at this and since I am a rockie at building a new PC I am
open to any help here.
I just built a new computer. Motherboard, ASUS P5LD2-deluxe,  CPU P4,  
Memory 1 gig, (2) western digital SATA hard drives set up in a RAID array

I have a laptop that originaly ran on Win 98. I upgraded to XP Pro, with
upgrade cd. I would like to replace the original 12Gb drive with a 40Gb
drive, but the upgrade CD won't install XP unless there is a previous
operating system on the drive.

sorry for cross posting.  Was not sure where to post.
We are currently deploying Windows XP SP2 with BDD 2.0 lite touch.
We have noticed that some user profiles (from windows 2000) were in the
form: username.domain:

I just upgraded my computer. Motherboard, CPU & Memory plus new power supply.
I decided to wipe off everything on my hard drive.  I booted the CD for
Windows XP and it's starts up normally but when it gets to message on the
bottom that says setup is starting windows.  And its ...

I've re-installed XP Pro SP 2 onto my system by booting from the CD.  This
did not offer me the option of an upgrade, so I chose to overwrite the
original Windows installation.  I now have a new default account alongside
the original user accounts that contain various customised ...

I set up a few xp sp2 workstations with a local admin account. I can
enable/disable the firewall as much as I wish.  Once I add the machine to a
domain - even if I log in again locally - I cannot change settings on
firewall. All settings are grayed out - can you help?

I would just like to know what the terms of use cover in terms of moving
Windows XP Pro to a new computer. I bought a Laptop a few years ago with
which came with Windows XP Pro (This was preinstalled and activated) but the
Pc has now stopped working. I have built a new PC and ...

In knowledge base article KB823658 it makes reference to a hotfix for 32 bit
machines; but it doesn't give me the opportunity to download it.
I get the following error when trying to bring down a RIS image:  "The
operating system image you selected does not contain the necessary ...

Is there a way to keep the same computer name using a unattended network
install (upgrade) from windows 2000 to xp pro.

Yesterday I installed SP2 on my brother's Windows XP PC.  After doing so,
the PC failed to connect to the Internet.  The network card showed a status
of loss of connection to the network.  I went to the properties of the NIC in
device manager and the driver still looked to be ...

In the old days, installing Windows 2000 to a new partition carved out of
raw disk space, OR installing to a FAT32 partition and telling the install
program that it could convert the partition to NTFS resulted, at the end of
the whole process, in an NTFS partition with 512-byte ...

when i try to get on a certain game on yahoo it says i need to clear my
browsers cache. how do i do that?