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That box is infected with a virus/trojan. Do a virus scan and it should clean it up. Looks like your lucky since somehow the infected file was deleted.

You need SP1 or SP2 to recognize the rest of the drive. XP without SP1 or 2 will not see all of a drive larger than 137Gigs.

I use USB externals. Get an enclosure and a drive. Put the drive in the exclosure, hook it up to a USB port and turn it on. Windows will recognize it as a mass external storage device and install the drivers. Once that happens you can format the drive and use it. You can also unplug it and connect it other computers to transfer files.

Install XP on the new computer. Once installed the first screem you see will be to register XP. Make sure you have the box hooked up to the internet the first time you boot. Click the register button. If the copy of XP hasn't been installed and activated in the last 90 days you'll be greeted with a congratulation message. If not it will give you a toll free number to call to activate over the phone. All you'll have to do is tell them you moved your copy to a new computer. It's a pretty easy process.

Make sure the laptop is set to boot from cdrom first. Change that in bios > boot options. Pop in the XP cd and boot the laptop. You'll have the option to delete the current ME partition and any other partitions thyat are there. Remove them and then create your new NTFS partition. It will format and install will continue.

There are 2 ways to make a drive a master or slave. First way is to set the pins on the drives. Look at the diagram on each drive to see how to do it. When you buy a drive it comes with pin set as master. The second way is to use cable select. You either reomve the pins or set the pin for cable select on the drive if the drive has that setting. Then connect the drive you want as master on the first conection up from the onboard controller and the slave on the last connector or the one at the end of the cable. Primary master drive will normally be boot drive.

You have to use disk manager in computer management to create the volumes for the disk. Once you do that it will work.

You definitely have something going on. I would do a full scan for trojans, virus or any other malware.

The click makes me think you have a dying or dead HD. Most drives will exibit a click of death and what you describe sounds like it.

Just add a cheap hub or switch. You can get a 5 port hub for less than $20. Hook the hub to one of the ports and hook the extra boxs to the hub.

Go to Admin Tools > Computer Management. Select disk drives and see if it shows up.

Is it a USB keyboard?

You will have to download the drivers that you need. If you know the make and model of the computer go to the manufacturer site and download the driver disk. If you don't know the make and model check device manager to see what hardware it has and download drivers from manufacturer sites. Each computer comes with a driver disk and if yours didn't then you need to download it.

The error you are getting is because you have no OS installed on the hd. Go into bios and make sure the floppy is set as the first option to boot from. I would bet the hd is set first. If floppy is set first then make sure the floppy you are using is bootable.

Create an image of the old hd using Ghost or some other imaging software. Then restore the image to the new drive. Replacing a hard drive shouldn't trigger activation.

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Have you tried copying rundll32.exe back in to C:\Windows\system32 from the install cd? If you didn't look in 1386 foler on the cd and copy it over. Do this while in safe mode. Best to rename the file and then copy the new. Sounds like you have a missing or corrupt file.

You need to configure the connection with the Linksys software. "No association With Access Point!" means that a connection can't be established. You have to create a profile with auth settings, ap ssid and channel settings.

Sounds like your registry somehow was corrupted. You might have to do a repair install of XP and re-install of the programs that won't run.

More ram will speed up app loading and make the computer feel less sluggish. There isn't much you can do to allocate more of the ram to each app. Even if you could it wouldn't help much. The cpu is the bottleneck. The programs you are running are cpu intensive. They will only use the minimum amount of ram need to run. The only real option to get better performance is to upgrade the cpu.

Ahh. Disregard what I posted above. What you have to do is disable the onboard video i bios. Restart your computer. As soon as the bios start to load, you'll see some text scroll or a graphic image, hit the delete key. Look for integrated periphrials and disable onboard vid. Save the changes and after reboot you'll be using the graphics card.

Try this. Go to device manager, select the card, right click, select properties, select driver and hit rollback driver. If that doesn't work then unistall the whole device and reboot. This will also uninstall the driver. If you are trying to use the new card and not the onboard then you'll have to go into bios and disable the onboard video. You box will then use the new card.

Shutoff power save mode for everything except the monitor. There is a problem with bringing hard drives back from power save mode.

What OS? With Windows 95 and 98 if you got that blinking prompt in the corner of the screen it meant that the boot sector of the drive was corrupt. If you were able to boot to your installed OS by moving the drive to another computer then the boot sector is OK. The problem is, unless you moved the drive to the exact same computer with same hardware, the OS shouldn't load.

Just thought of something else. I think you can boot from the GoBack CD. If you can, boot from it and use the option to disable GoBack on all drives. The computer should boot after that. Doesn't GoBack show some sort of screen after bios post that allows you to disable hit? Hit spacebar to configure or something like that? If it does shut off GoBack.