receive the following message when trying to setup XP-Pro
on a new system with a WD360gd 36Gig SATA HD,on an Intel
D865GBFL motherboard. win2000 works ok on the same box.
"setup was unable to format the partition. The disk may be

I try many thing, but let me explain the problem. I want
to include network driver on the windows xp CD and want
to be install in the setup with unnattented method.
I saw many think about adding this driver on networks

Got a 200 gig Maxtor drive in a Firewire Enclosure. In the past I have
purchased 200-250 gig usb external drives that showed all 200-250 gigs
when plugged into Windows 2000 without any drivers. The drives were
formated Fat32, converted them to NTFS, no problem.

can xp be installed on more than one of my home
computers. Seems I remember you could on 2.

I am upgrading from Win98 SE to XP Pro doing a full
installation.  The computer upgrades fine until about 13
minutes remaining and then its hangs for an eternity (once
for an entire night)--while going through the process

I tried to convert from FAT32 to NTFS on my computer,
but i get this message:
"Convert cannot run because the volume is in use by
another process.

We just bought a SONY Vaio Desktop and it came with XP
Home preinstalled, along with SP1.
After "upgrading", rather than a clean install, to XP Pro
the system reboots, the Welcome screen appears and then

We recently upgraded one of our WinNT 4.0 Workstation
machines to XP, using one large NTFS partition.  
Everything is great, except that when the computer is cold
booted it goes through the XP boot process and shuts down

I had a problem during installation that closely follows
the symptons laid out in the Microsoft Knowledge Base
Artice 307153.
The only difference being that the file I got for 'main

Generic Script That Will Work with NT/XP Clients.  
Currently my login scripts are configured to install apps
on NT clients.  During the deployment process there will
be some clients with XP and some with NT.  Is there a

When I try to install SP1a I get the message "Setup could
not verify the integrity of Update.inf. Make sure
Cryptographic service is running on this computer." The
setup then terminates.

I just finished installing a new HD and installed XP on it. I used to have 2
drives in the system, one with 2000 and one with 98.
When I run explorer, I can see all the files on the 2000 drive, but the 98
drive says drive must be formatted. In disk manager, it also reports the

I'm working on a friends computer and also getting stop msg and error code 14 on setupdd.sys.  Any advice would help

\KDCOM.DLL COULD NOT BE LOADED
THE ERROR CODE IS 4
WHILE TRYING TO BOOT FROM DOWNLOADED START UP DISKS
ANY INFO WOULD HELP

I recently had to completely re-install XP.  After doing
so, I do not have the ability to place the system in
standby mode anymore.  How can I turn this feature on?