Here's a crazy problem, I'm trying to reinstall windows, but it doesn't
recognize either of my internal hdds.
Windows will boot fine, but when I try to reinstall it, none of my internal
drives will appear in the disk selection menu. External USB drives and memory

I had XP Home installed on first hard drive, third partition (HD 0,
Part 2). I had a problem with it probably caused by wrong permissions
accidentally set up in the WINDOWS folder. A repair install failed
after deleting some files.

I have a strange one.  My boss' PC is re-booting at startup.  It tries to
boot into WinXP, then the hard-drive slows down slightly, and the PC goes
back through the mem-test and bootup.  If you try to go into safe mode, it
starts to boot into WinXP (shows the long series of drivers ...

Help..In trying to assign another user administration privileges my
Administrator account deletes along with everything on it.
I have restored My account with system restore (phew) but still need to
assign another user the admin rights.

Hi
I have formatted my C Drive and reinstalled XP. All working fine, all
the drivers back on still fine. Went online and started installing all
the Windows XP updates. Problems begin with Service Pack 1. After

Each time I boot up message appears saying "found new hardware" for a printer
that is working and printing on the system.   Any way to stop the message
from appearing?  
FYI: In "printers and faxes" only one icon of the printer (LexmarkE210)

i can use the task mngr. to get around, but it's getting old quickly. control
panel won't load either-- someone please!!

I cannot access olympusamerica.com only regardless of which browser I use
(IE, Firefox or Opera).  I can access all other sites, just not that one.  I
turned off my Norton Interent Security to see whether that was the problem
but it had no effect.  Is there some XP (I have XP ...

I have a system I have built. I have an Intel extreme MoB and dual core 2.4.
I am using a seagate 400gb/7200.10 IDE hard drive and two cdrom drives (one
is a slave, the other is a SATA) Windows Xp begins as normal, formats the
drive and goes into the install untill it reboots ...

The following error message pops up 4 or 5 time every time I start the
computer, and pops of 3 or 4 times intermittantly while I'm working.  It
interferes with my work.  How do I stop it?
WINDOWS - NO DISK

At this time I have my Windows XP Home Edition OS on drive C:, which
is an IDE drive. I want to purchase another, 10,000 rpm SATA drive,
connect it to my internal SATA interface, and port the operating
system from C: to the new drive. How can I accomplished this without

When i change a user account from administrator to user, after loging into
that account a box appears with "fAIL". If i switch the account back to
administrator this fAIL box does not appear. Any suggestions or help would be
great! Thanks

So my cpu sound just randomly went out. I know it's not the speakers
because i pluged my ipod into them and they work fine. I've been to
numerous help forums i've used numerous files that "could be missing".
I've put an audiosvr file back that somone said would fix it and

my start menu has disappeared and i dont know how to get it back. ive tried
the control panel but im at a loss...

I just installed windows xp from cd and i am not getting a ip address which
led me to look at my services. All the services except 3 or 4 of that that
should start automatically are not. Any reason why they are not especially
since its a clean install.