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i went to install vista ultimate from cd in windows, but when it asks me which drive i want to install on, it wont allow itself to be installed on the one drive i want it on. The drive i want it installed on is my Maxtor 300GB IDE drive. There is nothing wrong with the drive that i know of, because i had it as a secondary storage drive. now it says in a caution box when i have the drive selected...:

"This computers hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that this disk's controller is enabled in the BIOS menu.

Hi - can someone help please.......

I had XP Pro installed on my C:\ drive, and I replaced it with RC1 of Vitsa, doing a clean install.

I've been given a formatted hard disk, connected up as my D:\ drive, and I'd like to reinstall XP Pro onto it, and be able to choose which OS I boot into.

However, when I insert the XP installation disk, I get the initial options menu, but when I select 'Install XP Professional', nothing at all happens.

If I swap the hard drives around, so that the PC boots into the new formatted drive, I get a message when booting up saying 'OS not found', and can get no further. This happens whether or not I boot up with the XP Installation disc in the drive.

This is really bugging me now.

Everytime I start up Vista, plug in a portable hard drive or Ipod I get the "Program Compatibility Assistant" pop up saying this drive isnt compatible. When i unplug the ipod, the message just wont go away!!!! Really annoying.

I've tried unistalling the software (MyDVD) but this seems to lose my DVD drive on a reboot? (guessing its got something to do with Drive Letter Access being removed) I've tried messing about with Defender to stop it loading at start-up, but this doesnt seem to make any difference.

Is there anyway I can get rid of this message or unistall the software/driver without causing problems. I dont even use the software anymore! Its really really annoying!!!

I purchased a new computer a couple weeks ago:
HP a1700n
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ dual core processor
250 GB hard drive
1 GB ram (expandable to 4 GB)
Windows Vista Home Premium

My problem is with the hard drive space. 250 GB is more than enough space for me, but the problem is that it's started disappearing for no reason. When I got it, it had around 230 GB which was fine, and after I transferred my files/programs from my old computer it had around 200-210 GB. Well lately it's just disappeared without me even saving anything or downloading hardly anything. It went from 200 to 193 to 187 to 183 somehow.

I need a password recovery disk. software.... My brother locked his pc its an acer which I have one too but the idiot forgot his PW... now he needs a pw recovery disk... and i need to copy it for him on my usb card so he could get his pc back up and running. IM me at yahoo the screen name is the same...