Just upgraded from Win ME to Win XP Pro.
I have two physical disks in my system; disk 0 and disk 1
I used partioning software to split disk 0 into two partiions; winME resides
on "C" and win XP Pro installed on "E".  Oddly enough, "E" is the second

I have an IBM which at the time had Windows 98. Some things went wrong and I
need to reload Windows because a dll file is not in the correct path. Can I
put XP in place of 98 and have Windows/the computer up and working properly?
Thank you.

I have 3 computers in my house.  One is running the Win XP Pro Full install,
I bought it when I built one of my systems.  The other 2 are HP's and they
came with XP Home pre-installed.  I am building a new system but I want to
keep the others running.  I already have one liscence ...

Can I make hardware changes, including the motherboard, before my 30 day
activation is required? I have installed on my present desktop, but I am
going to put a new motherboard in before my 30 day activation is required. Is
this going to be a problem when I do activate?

Background: Windows XP-Pro sp2 system with failing system disk. I was able
to do a complete backup of the disk (both windows backup and Veritas/Stomp
backup mypc). Replaced the disk, reinstalled XP-sp1 from my msdn cd and then
restored the disk & system state with ms backup. This ...

I am setting up an all new server and network for a medical office that will
have up too 10 (not more) computers connected, including wireless network to
a couple of tablets, and some form of secure remote access.  I get to choose
the server OS.  My main criteria is that it has ...

Hi,  Iam running XP Home and it has gotten majorly hosed up.  I tried to run
"sfc /scannow", and it prompted me for the XP System CD, which Gateway never
sent with the system when I purchased it.  Now, it seems that I have to
purchase the XP Home Full Version to be able to use ...

When having a workstation join a new domain  how can  I keep the  preserences
the same?  ie  Shortcuts, background screensaver, outlook etc...

Hey all, I have WinXP Pro, and I copied the whole CD to my machine and creatd
an ISO image.  For some reason now when I burn it back to a regular CDR and
try to boot from that new CD, the computer doesnt recognize this as a
bootable CD.  The CD works just fine when the computer ...

I have set up a floppy with all my details on for unattended re-installs,
when I do a freshen up every 6 to 12 months, but here is my question, if you
do a unattended, but forget to delete the partition, or format etc, you end
up with 2 copies of Windows, in a dual boot format (I ...

Does anyone know why almost none of the system restores will actually
restore a system? I have a WinXP Home system that I want to restore to
an earlier time. There are several dates highlighted indicating restore
points that are available. But when I try almost any of them, all

I have an enterprise license for Windows XP Pro SP 1a and I have a hardware
cloning device for the HDDs.  I'm told there is a way to set up the master
HDD so that sysprep will change the SID on the cloned HDDs on first boot up
without going through the entire OS setup process.  ...

When attempting to install SP2 an error comes up about 3/4 the way through
the install saying i don't have authorization.  I am using the administator
log in so.  It happens when the intaller trys to write to the regestries
folder. what can i do to get the update.

Hi, I've created a user and copied a user profile from a local machine onto
the server and pointed that users profile to that directory. It loads the
profile fine but when I log off it won't save the changes to the profile back
to the server, I get the message "cannot update ...

I have used the sysprep utility that I use for WXP SP1 systems on a system
with WXP SP2 and it worked fine.  According to the docs and discussions, it
is not suppose to work.  What exactly is the problem with using the older
sysprep utility?