I'm reinstalling Windows XP on a Dell desktop. I get to the point where it says it's installing devices; then, it hangs at 37 minutes. The blurbs to the right rotates through its usual pages.
I need to reinstall an Acer Aspire 5050 which came with XP MCE 2005. The recovery partition didn't work and I have no recovery CDs to speak of (an Acer does not seem to provide them in their Spanish ...
A complete reset is rarely the answer anymore ...
Recently, my son lost all his personal documents (photos, video, Office files, etc) on re-installing Windows XP. Have any of you had experience with (or could you recommend) an off-the-shelf data ...