I have a power off problem with Windows XP. Recommendations I have found suggest going into Control Panel and selecting "Performance and Maintenance." My problem, I don't have such an icon labeled...

Thanks for all suggestions. I solved my problem by simply disconnecting my "primary" SATA drive from the motherboard, then started what would normally be a clean install of XP to the "slave" SATA...

Thanks to both of you. Appreciate your suggestions.

Thanks again caperjack. I have a win98 bootdisk and am familar with Fdisk. How does this sound? I remove my 120GB hard drive, do a clean install on the 80GB formatting in NTFS. After formatting,...

Have you not tried going to Start, then Search, then Files & Folders, type in your file name and let XP do your search? I have installed SP2 on ten different computers with no problems.

Thanks cperjack. Problem is, since Windows doesn't recognize the second drive, I can't access it to perform the format.

I installed a new Western Digital 120GB SATA hard drive on an Intel motherboard. All is well. Then I installed another WD 80GB SATA hard drive. BIOS recognizes both hard drives. All is still...