I have just spent a number of days setting up an image for
deployment to a number of laptops.
I am now getting the error decribed in K Base article
818171.

ok I am stuck. I baught a new hd. tried to install
windows and the hard drive will not boot the computer. I
tried doing the trick with using the old hd then using
the recovery console to fix the boot sector. No good. I

I am doing a clean install on my machine Windows XP Home-
and it freezes up at 34 minutes remaining.
I have repeatedly started over and over and it always gets
to 34 minutes.  I found some talk about errors just like

I am wondering how to re-format the hard drive or wipe
the drive. I have re-installed XP and there are still
files on the machine that I need to delete. I am looking
for a way to remove ALL data and files.

Is it possible to install XP and 2000 on dual boot ?
Does XP has to be installed first ? 2000 first ? or
doesn't matter ?
Anything to know before proceeding ?

When I try to download anything and save to disk it
automaticly puts the .tsk on the end.  A exe file will
have setup.exe.tsk.
How do I get back to normal.  Ha Ha What is normal in windows

I just bought windows XP Home edition and I am changing
from ME.  I am having trouble changing over and wondering
what I can do to get it to work.  Do I have to completely
delete ME and if so how do I go about doing that.  Any

On every re-boot or startup the Folder C:\Windows\system32 is opened. (XP
Pro - New Dell PC).
Any ideas how I can stop this opening on startup? - have searched knowledge
base but to no avail,

I've had three separate companies tell me
that although it was practical with ME and 98
that it is, for most intents and purposes, not
possible to get an installed version of XP to

Hi everyone, I cant seem to be able to upgrade from
Windows XP Home to Windows Enterprise Server Edition
2003. Any one know why? It goes into setup and when I
click install it simply pops up a blank black screen and

I'm going to be installing a new hard drive this weekend.
Afterwards I'll be inserting the original HP "XP System
Disk" that came with the PC.
Will I run into any conficts regarding registering a "XP"

Have entered int. options, content, auto complete and it
does not function. New computer w/XP home updated,
reloaded yada yada yada still will not work unable to
open registry assistant, and can not find account digital

Hello. I purchased Win XP Professional edition for
Christmas of 2001, and I installed it right away, and let
my daughter use it. Any way, it crashed, got viruses, &
had to be re-installed. I reformatted the HD and went to

When trying to reinstall XP from the CD, the computer
boots up, goes through the memory scan then gives me a
black screen and says that the biosinfo.inf file is
missing and setup cannot continue.  Any fixes for this?

I have a Sony notebook model PCG-FX270 that had Windows ME
installed at the factory.  After having this computer for
some time, I purchased and installed Windows XP Pro.  At
startup I get a "VAIO Action Setup" error.  The message