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[quote=Kreptonstar;297535]I'm running Windows XP Professional on my desktop computer. When I try to boot Normally, it appears to work fine until it gets to the Windows XP screen with the horizontal moving dots. The dots continue to move for awhile and then stop. This is as far as it goes. …

have you defragmented your drive recently? Defragmenting can help. Also there is a program called BootVis which can optimize the placement of your boot files on the disk to improve boot speed. This is a program by microsoft, however it is no longer supported (try google to find it), and …

for a .daa file you will need the program [URL="http://www.poweriso.com/"]PowerISO[/URL] to extract/burn it. WinRAR, Nero, etc don't recognize the .daa format

[quote=dcc;292923]The 137GB limit [B]is[/B] imposed by the BIOS, but for some reason with W2k the sp3 or sp4 will enable you to see hdds larger than the limit, the same is true with XP and sp2. I'm trying to find this out even as I write this. As to my …

I just happened to stumble onto this site, but after browsing around it seemed to be a great computer tech community. As a computer science student I'm pretty excited to get active here, as DaniWeb seems to be a veritable gold mine of computer experience and knowledge. I'm a hardware …