I purchased a used Dell laptop and it had errors @ startup I was not worried as I was installing XP pro. After installing XP pro I still get this error " The amount of memory has changed or the suspend-to-disk file is absent". I formatted it completely before installing XP ... can you help?

Try Doing this... 1.Download this program and you will need a floppy disk http://download2.lsoft.net/killdiskfloppysetup.exe This is Called KillDisk Use this disk to kill your hard drive Once that is done... If you have the Windows XP SP2 disk which autoly boots just put that in and load and install after you shouldnt have no errors...anyway...just a thought...

Oh and also i was doing some searching and someone said this.. My advice is to leave well alone. Suspend to disk is a small partition on your hard disk that you have to create before you create your main primary partition. You run "susdisk.exe" on this partition with the command A:\ susdisk.exe -p150 Which gives you a partition of 150MB, you then create you primary partition and make it active and install your OS. It sounds simple but i struggled for ages and failed, so now i just hit any key to continue when i get the suspend to disk message. Good luck !

Thanks for your help .... I bought this and it was supposed to be "in EXCELLENT" running order ok so now I am up to 15 hours of working on it and I still get this error .. I THINK NOT can you say REFUND! lol thanks again for all your help but enough of this bs I say Dawna