I added a second HDD, setup everything properly, slved the extra drive, it is
visible in the BIOS, but once in windows I cannot get it to read. Now this
HDD was from a friends computer simply trying to recover data, are there any
other tricks to try?

I have an interesting problem.  Somehow I have lost the control panel, how
can I regain gain access?  I am running Windows XP Professional and a few
days ago, the control panel was on my “Start” button.

Awhile back I created several documents in wordpad and created a new folder
for them in my documents. I no longer needed them, so I recently deleted the
folder.  They are still showing in wordpad in the file dropdown.  How do I
delete them from there?

XP SP2
USB-stick 1GB regularly used.
Yesterday evening no more detected on whatever usb port tried. Tried this
morning on work PC : same !!

Windows XP Pro SP2. Dual 2.0 Ghz CPUs with 2 Gb of memory
When I double click or select a file and press Enter it takes about 30
seconds to 1 minute for the associated program to start and load the file,
same thing happes when I right click on the files to view the properties and

I have 2 computers in my home network, one pc is a winXPpro+sp2, the other
is a win2k3 machine
on the win2k3 machine I've created a NFS share, using fs.msc.... The problem
is that I'm unable to connect to this share from the winXP machine.... well,

Hello i buy notebook with vista, and return to windows XP, the true is
many many softwre and hardware are not compatible with vista.
If i buyed legal software and hardware why i have buy newly
software ???

What is the maximum file size one can generate writing to a RAID 10 volume?  
I am creating an AVI file by recording video and recording seems to fail
consistently at around 510 GB.  My total storage space is 1TB.

       can anybody tell me the difference between the Journaling and
Continuous Data Protection(CDP)?

I am re-posting with all the info.
Hi Peter,
Correct.
I had started a repair install to fix issues I was having with Windows.

About 75% of the time, the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon tells me that I
cannot remove my USB drives. No programs are open, so nothing should be
accessing the drive. I wait a while (sometimes 30 minutes or more) and still
I cannot safely remove the drive. This happens on a number ...

I have just been bought a computer which has Vista installed. Can I uninstall
Vista and install XP using the CD which came with my original computer?

trying to copy users pst's to network drive and getting this error after 20
or so minutes. deleted as many emails as possible and ran scanpst and
compression. pst still at about 1.1G so that probably has something to do
with it. please advise. thx.

in winXp pro in "event"  (system)
appars 200 or more apllication
than open and close continly !
the programm is named:  HPZ12

i see on EVENT log that there are 2 process
called HPZ12 ( a driver o .exe for HP company
but what is and to do ?)
event id : 7035 open and id:7036 close