Ok, here's a doozy for you!  We purchased a brand new Dell
2400 pc.  It has 2 NIC's on it, one on-board, the other is
a card.  We copied (Ghost) a Dell Dimensions XPS 500 pc
and over-wrote the original image on the new 2400 pc.  We

Hi all,
I'm currently running RC1 and my machine is like a 3 legged
dog in treacle. It was fine before I put RC1 on. I figured
RC2 might sort things out, but I can't install it. If I

I have only a USB external CD-ROM drive (my internal died and can't be
fixed because of problem with motherboard attachment).  How can I
reinstall XP?  Is there a way to add a line to the boot discs along with
the usb drivers to recognize the external drive?

just wondering which you'd choose and why.  1000+ machines, lots of
different hardware, 90% of it has built in XP driver support (the ones that
don't are NIC and graphics chipsets).  wiping out the current OS and
starting from scratch with a set of specific applications.

I have read on the MS multiboot pages that it says you
cannot do a Dual boot on 1 dynamic disk unless you
partition before hand...
I have winXp pro installed on a laptop that I need to keep

Here is the scenario.  I've got a pc in which the bios doesn't seem to recognize the cdrom as a cdrom.  Hence.. I can't boot from a cd.  I know in windows 2000 you could create 4 boot disks from makeboot.exe and start the OS install that way.  Does any such beast exist for XP?

Anyone know how I can get around this? Tried removing the
drivers but XP senses them on restart? Can anyone help?

I've been having a mare trying to install XP onto my
Seriel ATA drive.  I keep running in that
message: "Windows has stopped setup to prevent damage to
your computer. Check that your hard drive is configured

We bought 4 new Dell Precision computers for our software developers, with
Windows XP SP1 pre-installed. I then installed all standard development
software on those machines, the developers copied over their files and
settings, and we took them into production last week.

I have recently had some system issue with one my system.
during the period of time that my system was down I put
together a PC from spare parts I had and installed my
windows XP on it.

If I install XP Pro over 2000 Pro, will I lose my
installed programs and data files?
Documentation comes across as if I will, previouse windows
installs do not do this.

This is probably a common problem, but I haven't been
able to resolve it.
I moved my hard drive loaded with XP Pro to a new
system.  It worked fine on the old system, but I wanted

Can you install a older version of xp over a newer one?

I am currently working on an unattended installation of Windows XP, and was
wondering if anyone knows how to automaticcally set the desktop items to
auto-arrange without having to write an AutoIT or ScriptIT script to enable
the option.

I am trying to reinstall Windows XP Professional in order
to start fresh and delete my *only* partitition (C:).  I
cannot delete it, nor can I split it using
PartititionMagic 8.0.