Is there a way to transferr my files from my old system
without having to write to cd's to transferr the files?

can anyone tell me how to create an image of a cd, programmatically.
actually i'm doing remote deployment of the operating systems. and i
have to create the images.  i don't want to use RIS or any of the
third party softwares.  i would like to do it by myself.  but how? :-)

Hello, I recently completely replaced my hard drive and did a clean
install of Windows XP on it.  However, after XP finished installing,
my Zip drive is now mapped as C, and my hard drive is mapped as E.  Is
there any way to drive the drive naming?  Thank you!

my computer recently crashed and i had to format and
reinstall windows xp. Now I do not have some of my
programs such as microsoft works. please help,  thanks

I have a win2k system with 3 drives - 2 SCSI and 1 ATAPI.  
Currently, I have the SCSI set for C: and D:, and the
ATAPI set to F:
I want to install XP on the ATAPI drive.  I can set the

I am about to upgrade to a new motherboard.  How painful will my reactivation of XP Pro be?  Will I need to get Microsoft on the phone?

I recently had a motherboard replaced by DELL on a laptop. Was running XP Pro Eval which was UPGRADED to full, retail over the internet about 4 months ago. There is a receipt for this from a credit card.
This morning I turn on the machine and get the message. Your evaluation ...

Can't get to Windows at all (looking for hal.dll).  Can
boot up on Boot Floppy but don't know what to do after
that.  
Help!

After installing a new hard drive on an older computer -
this computer I have already run WindowsXP professional.
It will not boot from the hard drive or the cdRom from a
cd purchased from the book store of a university which I

help, i lost my log on password, can't log on to xp at all.  any suggestions?

How do you format the drive to do a COMPLETELY FRESH
install?

I am attempting to upgrade from ME to XP Professional.  
During the install I received an error message advising
that I had a missing or corrupt file "<windows
root>\system 32\hal.dll." that needs to be re-installed.  

I had a keyboard / liquid incident over christmas. The
keyboard is shot, but I've now got a new one. Now,
whenever I try to log onto the administrator profile I
get a blue screen claiming a fault with FSTOPW.SYS and a

Anyone hgave the phone number to activate my copy of
Windows XP?  The only instructions I can find are to use
the activation program on my computer - but before I can
get any useful information, the machine freezes up.

I have an unauthorized copy of XP Professional on a newly built PC, and would like to reinstall a legitimate copy...would a reinstall of XP Pro require me to reformat the partition?  Or, can I just reinstall the licensed copy?