I have a gateway solo 2500 Laptop and Format the hard
drive and install window XP.  But after intalling window XP
profressional I realized that some of my hard ware could
not function with window XP profressional.  SO now I want

Trying to do a new install on a new hard drive in the
same machine originally installed on. Setup keeps going
back to the beginning and starting over? Cannot seem to
get past the first part of the setup program? Formatted,

I have a lot of identical computers that I would like to
install Windows XP and others packages (i.e. VS, Office).
Is it possible to multiple install those software on those
computers in such the way that I don't have to install on

My PC restarts whenever I try to shut down windows. I have
tried all the changes that have been suggested in the
knowledge base.
Can anyone help me?

I'm wondering if I should install
it to take advantage of ATI
multimedia center. It's an XP
installation on a P4. MSI PE865

I just installed Windows XP Home Edition on a laptop and
ran the windows update menu item from Internet Explorer,
but after clicking "Install Now", none of the updates
install. They all fail. I am not sure what I am doing

my new (3days old ) xp. naturally got the blaster bug
agh! have loaded the fix from m/soft, ok for a while,
then  bug comes up again. after loading the patch I get
the message "setup could not verify the integrity of the

I was having issues installing my wireless network to my
desktop and 2 laptops (clients).  Called tech support and
after about 3 hours, I was told to just format my C drive
on desktop and then do a complete XP Windows Pro install.

Windows XP crashed upon reboot from installing the UDF reader for the Iomega
CD Creator. Windows is still there but unaccesible. System restore is
non-functional from the set-up page. Same with: Last Known Good, Safe Mode,
Safe Mode with Networking, and Safe Mode with Command Prompt ...

Well, i pulled a genius and inadvertanely started the
setup to repair an exisiting version fo XP while in
safemode  and for the life of me can't figure out how to
get it back into normal mode (repair can't finish until it

When I first installed XP-home, I attempeted to load and
use the driver for my HP 1120C printer.  I recieved a
Window help message tellin me Windows could not find a
file & did I want to find it.  I subsequently found the

I have 2 (mostly) identical computers, AMD 1GHz, 30Gb HD,
50xCD.  I purchased 2 full XP Home installations, and 1
went perfectly.  The second gets the NTLDR not found error
and I read Nicholas' info to boot from CD, tried the

i lost the sleeve for xp pro which had the product key on
it.  I want to do a clean install, but i need this product
key.  Is there any way i can recover this code.  Can I get
another one?

I added some new hardware to my exisiting machine. The
activation keys popped up. Window said I have three days
to activate. But button to move to next page is grayed
out. What can I do to prevent loss of access? Computer

XP system was hit with the blaster worm and serval OS
files were corrupted.  Tried to run setup to repair OS.  
The system retarted into setup and then went to device
installation but froze at 34 min remaining mark.  Tried