You will not find many books geared towards console development due to the fact that the console makers are very cagey about who they will supply development kits to. (XNA is the exception, see below)

Some people above have suggested teaching yourself C++, while this is the de-facto language for the game industry it is not very forgiving. If you have not done any programming before you may want to start with a more basic language.

Microsoft has released XNA to help hobbyists and students make games for the Xbox 360 or PC. It uses C# as the language, and both XNA and C# Express are free to download. There are lots tutorials and books available for both XNA and C#.

I am not a developer, if you post this question on the forums at http://www.gamedev.net/ you can get expert advice.

Most of the hardware is produced and assembled in Asia. This is not much of a loss to the US, the fab plants are mostly automated and the pay at assembly plants is reportedly very low.

Most of the real money is made from the design.

Intel and some others have fab plants in the USA.

I have never used the 650 PRO, my only experience is with older ATI tuners. But even then the quality was much, much better then You Tube.

1) Partitioning splits your hard disk into slices, In the OS each slice will appear as a separate drive (if you have two NTFS partitions, they will appear as C: and D: in Windows).

2) All operating systems include partitioning software.

3) In XP go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, storage, disk management. There you can view the physical hard disks and create or delete partitions. You will have to format a new partition after it is created.

Partitions are often used to keep the OS, applications and software separate (not usually important on a home PC), or for installing multiple operating systems. We may be of more help if you let us know what you are trying to achieve.

Sorry, I can't help you with that. Its been a long time since I upgraded my PC and I have not kept up with the latest trends in graphics cards.

I suggest that you pick a graphics chipset that gives good performance for your price range and then search to see if anyone is making low profile versions. Finally, check out the reviews for the cards.

If you have a slim case you will need a low profile card. The card you linked to is not a low profile card.

Replacing the bracket on a standard card will not help as the card will be too tall to get the case hood back on.

There are low profile graphics cards but you may have to pay a bit more for one.

The best way to do this is with a drive copying program. Many disk manufactures offer them for free on their web site.

Alternatively you could use a program like Ghost, it has more features then the free software, but you will not need them for a simple disk clone.

Normally you make a CD/floppy with the disk copy software, install the new HDD, boot from the CD/floppy select the source and target disks and let the program run.

The problem is that the disk has XP setup for the hardware from another machine. The best way to get it working is with a repair using the XP disk as the post above suggests.

There may be another way. Most boot problems encountered when moving a HDD to a new machine are related to the mass storage controller. Did you get an inaccessible boot device or 0x0000007B error?

There may be a way around this but it is horrible and requires a working computer and registry editing and may not fix the problem. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314082/en-us for details.

The other problem is that because you have changed the hardware you will have to activate XP with Microsoft. As you do not have the CD key this will not work. Even if you did have the key and it was an OEM install Microsoft will not activate it as you have replaced the motherboard.