Try booting up in safe mode. Usually with XP there is an administrator account that does not usually appear on the list. This means that there is rarely a password set for this account. By booting...

What it could be and sounds like to me is that your motherboard does not support a hard drive that big since its an older model. but then i could very well be wrong.

The other thing is if there...

Might be easier for him to simply buy a USB to USB cable and get him to transfer the data that way. they only cost about $10

yeah your doing it the hard way. get out of all that go into my computer. you external hard drive should be listed there as a drive letter most likly E: right click on that and then click format and...

windows updates won't help fix that problem what you need is an all in one driver for you particular mobo. I am not exactly sure how you might get this if you dont have access to the internet but you...

try change your color settings off 256 color mode?

Actually its a really simple problem to fix. a new installation of windows means that it doesnt have any drivers and that includes your ethernet controller drivers. So if you have a disk for you...

Yeah as much as i don't like the way windows has things set up with their OS sometimes i think we tend to forget that they do make life alot easier on a computer then it would be without an OS. In my...

Do you have it in two different folder or two different partitions? If its partitions simply right click on the partition containing the copy of windows your not currently on and click format.

For a start you don't have to post the same topic 3-4 times to get it answered usually one is enough.

The simple solution would be to reinstall windows. The only way this would cause problems is...

It should not matter what operating system you are using so long as you still have the OS disks. If you have an OS CD simply place it in your CD drive and boot up your computer. It will either come...

Sounds like your computor might be overheating. try taking the cover off and watch the computor boot up(dont touch anything while its doing this) make sure both your power supply fan and CPU cooling...

sometimes USB mice simply decide that they dont like the rear slots on some computors. This at the very least does it for me on my HP where the mouse would stop working suddenly and i would have to...

As far as i have seen with my ATI you cant do that but its not a bad idea going into properties and having a look to see if there are any setting that can be changed to make it better or even using...

Is the keyboard still working if so then try using that to get to it. As well as you have to rember that your screen is rotated 90 degrees so the movement is going to be different to what it would...

There is most likly a really simple solution to it but i dont know that so if anyone else knows how then by all means say. However one thing you could try doing is going into control panel from the...

well it cant help that your using a dell :P but what exactly have you tried using to fix it so far aside from striking keys and shutting it down?