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You plug the flash drive in and the change the drive letter in Computer Management>Disk Management, but that will only apply to that specific flash drive. If you use a different drive, Windows will default to mapping the new drive to E (or whatever). I'm not sure where one would change what...

Check to make sure there aren't two copies of the user's Documents and Settings on the PC. If this is a PC that the user formerly logged into when it was not part of AD, then most-likely XP has created a second profile for the user called <username.domain name>. If not, does a folder you add to...

"Slaved to XP machine, recognised in Windows but no drive letter allocated." Out of curiousity, when the drive was in the XP machine, did you check for it under Disk Management to make sure Windows wasn't trying to assign it a drive letter that was already in use by something else? Probably...

Steve, I'm not sure about scripting, but you are correct that users don't need to be administrators to install shared printers from a server. All our non-IT users are setup as Power Users on the local machines and they can get printers from our print servers and install local printers without a...

Does this link help at all? http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/ntcmds.mspx?mfr=true It details the format for using msiexec from the command line and describes the different parameters.

As others mentioned, check the PSU's manufacturer's website to see if it has a smart fan. Also, does the PSU get hot to the touch when the PC is running? I've run into plenty of PCs where my first indication the PSU fan has died is taking hold of the case to pull it out from under a desk and...

Did you try stduc's suggestion of setting it up as a slave on another computer see if you can access the data? I'm curious to know if the password protection worked in that case. Also, have you tried the hard drive in a non-Dell computer? If the password is still required in both those cases...