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You cannot just connect your (B) and (D) drives together on your new computer. According to your setup, neither has an OS installed. Depending on how much data you have on your (D) drive, you might want to hook up the (D) drive to the new PC (remove the (B)), then move the files you want over...

dpm, You're right. It was in Spybot, Immunize. The only thing is, why wasn't the lock removed when the program was un-installed? morkinva, XP Home does not have the gpedit.msc feature. It is only available for XP Pro. Anyway, thanks guys for your help.

morkinva, Thanks. I'll try that when I get home tonight. dpm, I thought that was it too. But after I un-installed the program, the lock was still in place. Also, when I re-installed it, it didn't ask me if I wanted to permit/deny access to the Internet Options in Tools as I had remembered...

I re-formatted and re-installed XP-Home this past weekend. I started to installed programs onto my computer, one of which allowed me to locked the Internet Options choice under Tools in IE6 when the program is opened. However, one can access it by right-clicking the Desktop Icon and choose...

All you need to do is boot off of the XP CD. It will step you through the process to re-format and re-install. Just ignore the warning about an exsisting OS and re-format.

I'm not sure, since it's been awhile... You'll need to do a Format. During the format process, you can enable/choose/switch the partitions between Primary/Extended, Active, etc. I don't think you need to go through with the actual formatting itself in order to have this done. I think all you...

Did you set your BACK drive as the PRIMARY partition and "Active", and also the "MASTER" ?

I assume when you say, "3-4 different WIN XP CD's", that these are not originals. Anyway, it could be your CDRom not able to read those copies correctly. I had the same thing happened to me when I tried to install XP on my computer. It would hang at a certain percentage completion, actually...

Did you using any Drive Overlay software on the old drive, such as those from Maxtor or WD?

The Microsolution Backpack that I have has a Mitsumi IDE CDRW inside the case. I had removed it from the case and installed into the PC. Windows recognized it, so did the burning software. Works great in the PC even if it's several years old.

I received mine and checked the warranty thru WD...none. But the strange thing was the P/N that came back on the result page for the S/N that I put in showed that it is a WD800JB-00CRA1 ! ! ! (Special Edition, 8M). I double checked the S/N. The P/N on the label says it's a WD800BB. Can...