I am not sure, the only major update by MS for XP was the SP3. Right click on my computer and check what version of service pack is installed, if it shows Service Pack 3 then that could have caused...

Hi James

Right click on My Computer and select Manage. On the left select disk management and select your drive. On the unallocated partition, right click and select format. You will have options...

Format the partitions from disk management in either FAT32 or NTFS.

Do you use a download accelerator? There are a few that split a file into a few parts, this problem could have occured if one part did not download completely. If you do use a download accelerator...

Are you using a dhcp to assign ip's to your ethernet card? What is your isp? Also if you are using pppoe make sure that your username and password are correct :P

I usually get this problem when I use "Automatically detect the IP address" setting for my LAN card. This is corrected when I specify it manually.