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If you still can't get it to work there, try here. http://www.click-now.net/download/Adobe_Photoshop_CS2.htm

The Flash is right on the light deal. I've seen this done before myself on a Toshiba. I've also seen when the wireless goes bad the light wouldn't turn off, so I even disabled the NIC and the light was still on.

Try Dtweak Pro. It has disk cleanup, disk defrag, registry cleanup as well as disk defrag. It's a free trial and runs pretty nice. http://www.daoisoft.com/

Have you tried reinstalling the OS or running the repair feature?

As far as the wireless light goes, if the light doesn't work and the wireless isn't working then it sounds like either your wireless device is disabled or not working at all. If it's not working at all, I say try getting warrenty work done or get a new USB one.

Have you tried hooking that drive to another system to make sure the drive is good. From the sounds of things it may be your drive that's having issues, I could be wrong but it couldn't hurt to check the drive.

Okay if the XP install CD doesn't pick up the drive, which most of the time it does, try downloading the SATA drivers of your motherboard from your manufacturer's website and put them on a floppy. Then when XP CD boots up it'll ask to press F6 to setup SCSI adapter that's when you hit F6 and it'll read the drivers off the floppy.

You can try placing those files in the startup config in the registry.

On your taskbar at the bottom of your screen right click on an empty place and go to properties, then go to start menu. There you can choose Classic. If you want this option for all accounts on your PC or DOMAIN you can set that up in GPO. If you want to know how to do that let me know.

I reinstalled XP on a Dell laptop about two weeks ago. The only issue I had was it wouldn't install w/o a previous OS on there. So I had an old Windows 2000 product lying around so I installed 2000 and ran the XP disc again and got everything up and running. I installed the drivers after that and didn't have a problem after that. It sounds to me like your runing into the same exact issue I did. Try installing a previous OS like 2000 if your able and see what happens.

Okay you shouldn't create a partition it should have asked you if you wanted to repair an install automatically, but since it didn't we can try another route. When you went to repair at the beginning and you said it asked for a username and password did you try to just enter through the password part? If not try just entering through it and see what that'll do for you.

Okay your going through the wrong way. The way I go in is like this: When asked to Install or repair choose INSTALL. From there it'll go through the usual Do you agree blah blah blah, Then it'll search for previous installations of your OS, it will then find your install and ask you if you want to repair that install or not, tell it REPAIR then it'll do a reinstall of your OS while keeping ALL your files intact.

I have XP on my desktop at home, I run under my account unless I'm in a hurry then I login as administrator since I have so much booting up in my account at logon.

If you can get a hold of a Windows XP disc of the same ver. you are running, whether it be Pro. Home, or Media Edition, just put the disc in and try repairing the installation, I've seen this fix 95% of the issues I've ran into. If you need help on how to run the repair feature let me know.

I just purchased the newest ver. 14 for a couple of customers and it says it supports Vista but not sure if it'll do what your needing. This link will take you to the symantec site and get a full 30 day trial. http://shop.symantecstore.com/store/symnah...Trialware_en_US

I use this app. DTWEAK Pro. It's a free trail, it'll do disk cleanup and defrag, registry cleanup and defrag, check hard drive health, and so you a list of all things running at bootup. I ran the Vista ver. on my computer and it helped a little. But of course the only thing to help Vista is XP.

Try making your SATA partitions 30 GB each. Try that then see if your system will reconize that better.

I always wanted to know how to do that too. I build systems for people on the side and that would be AWSOME if I could put a logo there.

Thanks Tarun. I'll look into it. Appreciate it.

Yes. I've used Belarc Advisor, it takes an entire look at your system and tells you how secure your system is overall.

A few other forums I'm a member of when you post in a thread it automatically subscribes you to that thread so you can keep track of new posts. Is this feature possible or is it already there and I'm overlooking it?

Sounds to me like a virus. Try running some free AV apps like AVG and Anti-Vir. After that try running Spybot and Ad-aware and see what that turns up.

I'd like to at least a stable OS. I've about had my feel of Vista. I've got a feeling that Vista will in the end turn out like ME. Pretty but not functional.

Yes I've seen this problem before myself at where I work. We had the same issue and what it came down to being was the wireless NIC software. What we did was we had the software that came with the card do our wireless connecting for us rather than letting windows do it. Once we disabled the 3rd party software and had windows do all the work we never had any other issues. Try having Windows do all the work if not already and let me know the results.

Man it's a toss up between ME and Vista. I'm so confused I don't know which one to choose.