How to prevent/prohibit the formating of the HDD?

How many times (or how frequently) does MS
let a user re-install WinXP IN THE SAME MACHINE?
If one wanted to set up and then mulit-boot several
versions of WinXP, each with a different set of

I installed Windows XP on my laptop earlier this year, replacing 98SE. For
the most part it's been a success, but I encountered a few problems on the
first installation and had to re-start it. Now when I turn the computer on,
it asks me to "Please Select the Operating System to ...

Is it possible to have 3 or more people using the same computer at once with
3 different sets of input devices??

I'm attempting upgrading XP Home to XP Pro, both SP2. i've uninstalled Norton
AntiVirus, loaded the Upgrade CD, and it proceeds normaly until it reboots to
continue the install. I get a ""Setup cannot locate the Windows installation
you want to upgrade." After i hit F3, the ...

I have a problem. I need to make a RIS distribution on a particular board but
the audio driver setup incorporates a microsoft driver in it, namely
KB835221.
I worked around this by using the RunOnce command to install the sound

I saw a number of posts from users asking how to add more color schemes to
Windows XP (other than blue, green, and silver).
A good solution to this is WindowBlinds. It is designed to allow users to
add additional visual styles to Windows XP as well as enable users to change

After upgrading to XP from 2000 my system takes about 11 minutes while
displaying "Loading your personal settings..." This occurs when the main
user is logged on. A new user profile does not exhibit the problem. How can
this be corrected while maintaining the original configuration?

Look I have Office 2003 but when I try to install it or uninstall the old
Office XP it says that there is something wrong with the Windows Install
Service. This is what it says word to word, "The Windows Installer Service
could not be accessed. This can occur if you are running ...

I recently needed to reinstall some of my Windows Xp components on a HP
Pavillion machine.  Previously installed Xp over ME and all was well.  then
files started disappering including some windows components.  Decided to
reinstall after SP2 to fix windows problems.  During ...

I have a strange question. I recently purchased a DELL Latitude 800 PC with
Windows XP Pro. While snoopying around and getting the feel of the machine, I
went to microsoft.com because I wanted to download SP2. Well that site, and
as far as I can tell, only that site, as strange ...

Hi..i am migrating users from a netware based network to server 2003 , all
user have a local profile , profile will continue to be local but i need to
copy the local profile to the users new domain name profile
ie current user "joe" has account and profile , joe joins the domain ...

can i install win2000 with winxp
i have two partitions
i know the procedure, but are there any issues
r there any problems related with it

I had a motherboard failure that left my system inop.  The processor and
motherboard failed.  The drive, with XP SP2 installed, survived the disaster.
I replaced the motherboard and processor, but I cannot run the system.  I
get a Windows registration failure.  I need to buy ...

I plan on having 3 drives in a system I will be building in a week.  My
scheme is a boot/shared drive as ide0:0, set to boot, have ide0:1 as a Fedora
Linux distro, and a sata drive for Windows.
I would like Windows to manage the boot process, the problem is, I couldn't