I run Windows XP pro on a 8Gb partition of a 40Gb drive. It's getting tight. I plan to buy an 80Gb drive and I hope to use Norton Ghost 2001 to copy the partition to the new drive and finish up in bootable order. Is it possible? Has anyone done it? Norton is a kosher copy, but the booklet seems...

I have a 160G hard drive and windows doesnt recognize it. My Bios only recognizes it as a 137G hard drive. I was told to upgrade my Bios, but Im not sure how to do it.

Hello, Since some time now, I have a problem with my standby function in Windows XP. Sometimes when I push the sleep button on my keyboard, the pc goes into standby (S3) but immediately resumes. After a few seconds I push again and it goes and remains in standby. It looks it happens when the pc...

I've been trying to install this 120 gig IDE drive in our server. It is running Windows 2003 Standard server. It has an 18 gig SCSI drive in it right now. Also had two IDE controllers on the board. The CD Rom is on the 2nd Master. I put the IDE drive on 1st Slave. It won't boot up. Says invalid OS....

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 07:25:27 +0100, Knowing that it was a Hollywood invention that lemmings jump off cliffs "Guy" wrote : Hello and thanks for reading me, I am the owner of a Packard Bell computer which has an AMD 2400+ cpu, a NOVA mother board and an integrated nVidia...

Been lurking in newsgroups and have just realised its a good idea to have additional partitions on hard drives. Glad to have opinion/ideas on how best to manage this. I have two hard drives installed, neither of which have more than one partition...and both only about 5% used at the mo:- C:...

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Hi, I will try once more. I did not get the answer I need: This PCI card says it will work with DOS. Also, using MSD I can get the computer to recognize the card, remap the IRQ and use the right address (I have disabled the built-in ports except LPT1 to make sure this doesn't have an impact)....

Hello, I am trying to clean install WinXP Pro on an older 1.1 gig, 512 MB, 2 Hard drives. Windows formatted the drive fine and started to run the setup program. However, when it gets ready to start the actual install it goes to a dos screen and says that NTLDR is missing. Press any key to start...

I have been thinking of buying one LCD. I have a very nice monitor, and I love tube monitors. LCD monitors have turned me off because nearly all LCD makers don't want to sell backlight for the LCD, and present LCD won't work with HD-DVD due to "systemwide content protection scheme called PVP-OPM"...

The battery in my Dell laptop is dead, finished, defunct. I need to replace it and since Dell wants about $165 for it, I decided to check out other sources. I was given the website for a company that is well rated. They do indeed have a replacement for my battery and for only $65,...

hi all, inot sure where to post this, but here goes.... have a prob concerning a win2000 pro installation. when i have installed win 2000 onto a freshly formatted drive, all seems to be ok untill i use the mainboard cd to install the chipset drivers/usb ports etc. what happens then is that i loose...

I am thinking of upgrading from a aging Compaq Deskpro to a new PC desktop for home use. I use the PC for a lot of Photoshop work and I have a Canon slide scanner attached that is a SCSI device. My question is do the new PCs support SCSI controllers? I look at the specs for the PCs and none of...

About 2 out of 3 times, when waking out of a sleep state over night, I get several seconds of a sound, like something winding down. After, everything is normal. Happens only after an overnight sleep. During any other time, no sound. Sounds for all the world like something mechanical, but fans...

How is the performance on the celeron compared to Pentium 4 - both 2,4 ghz. As see the Celeron has a 128 kb cache and the Pentium 4 times as much. How much impact will that do on a server if a Celeron is chosen? Regards Per

I'm hoping that the 'hardware' groups may be able to assist as I've had no answers from Networking groups. I use a mixture of Linux Mandrake, Win98, ME and XP. I have a wireless network with Netgear WG602 54mbps AP, Netgear WG602 54mbps PC card, a Linksys 11mbps USB adapter and a WiFi enabled...

Hi all. A friend of mine would like to built his own new machine. Mostly for gaming. AMD or Pentium ?? He would like a P4 about 2.0. What mobo should he get? Must be 8*AGP .I built my own AMD with a FIC13 mobo, but i dont know all that much about Pentium. And prob about 2gig of at least PC2100...

Vance's point was that what you downloaded weren't Xp files. Normally one would just right click the INF file and select install, but it doesn't appear any of those files are for XP. "Vance Roos" wrote in message ... I am trying to...

Q: how to approach your account data if the administrator account is disabled ? this is is just a theoretically imagined situation (not happening to me! :) but let's presume that i have a locked administrator account and that i failed to enter encrypted password into my user account at...

The usage will be for training staff via MS-PowerPoint presentations, spreadsheets and MS-Word documents. It has to be TV capable so that a cable connection from Comcast will allow viewing news from Comcast as well as ability to connect to the Internet. It also should be able to connect to a...