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 ...

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 ...