Hi, I'm trying to get my reg key for XP-PRO. It's a legit
disk but I can't install the thing as FTDISK.SYS is
corrupted on the CD.
I need a prog that will get my key off the disk (no-one

My pc has been working really slow lately. My Ram, Hard
Drive, Running Processes, ect.. Are all fine, I know the
problem has to do with my system files and possibly other
things.

I know the upgrade will just be an inplace install.  
However, is there a "software" path, i.e. just buy XP Pro
upgrade? or is there a special product for XP Home to Pro
upgrade?  

As i open the windows task manager in windows xp, I
realise there are the usual 3 svchost.exe processes
running however there is now an additional svchost.exe
file running. This starts off using 7 mb of RAM but when

I have put a new hard drive in a laptop. Can I install the
XP upgade I was useing on the old hard drive, it went bad.
Or do I have to install the original software and then up
grade?

If someone could confirm:
I am installing xp off of a cd and a winnt.sif. Therefor commandlines.txt
will not execute.
I have pieced this statement together from various sources, so I wanted to

From what I understand, my friends hard drive is EIDE.
Hei s trying to go from ME to XP but doing XP completely
from scratch. In doing so, he says it loads all temporary
files then when it comes to detecting the hard drives it

I reinstalled my windows xp on my home system, now when I
turn on the computer I get an error message saying the
Norton Anitvirus needs to installed. The Problem is the
Computer only give me a minute before is shutdown and

I own a Dell Latitude laptop that was purchesd in October
of 2001 (just a month before XP was released.)  I need to
upgrade to XP, several people have advised that it may be
best to just purchase a new laptop, stating that upgrading

After reinstalling Win XP Home the Add/Remove Program
Tool doesn't work. How do i solve this (preferably
without having to reinstall everything again)?
Kind Regards

Is there an Fdisk or similar feature in Win 2000? Is there
one in XP?

I am using Windows XP ent. ed. and I am preparing a master pc to clone with Ghost 7.5. I want an unattended installation except from the window wich you enter the new local users accounts who is to be generated. How can I manage this?

How would I go about installing XP Pro to a different
directory other than the default \WINDOWS ?
I need to install it to \WINNT instead for a legacy
program.

Can anyone offer any help regarding fitting additional new hard drives and
also removable hard drives when using windows XP ?
When my computer used Windows 98se, I never had a problem with removable
drives. All you had to do was select the option in properties saying the

I loaded my windows xp onto my old home computer-an old
aptiva from 4 years ago-according to parameters it should
be compatible but as soon as windows xp starts to load up
the display goes black-it continues to load and the