I'm having trouble with my XP, Home Edition, computer.
It tells me that I am missing file  ' ntoskrnl.exe '
I put my XP (upgrade) Original CD in my 98SE CDRom and searched for the
file but it couldn't find it.

I am trying to reload XP Pro on an HP Pavilion.  The system has a 160 gig
drive in it.  Windows will only recognize 137 gig of it.  The original load
did see the entire drive.  Is there a setting or option that I'm not aware of
that I need to use to allow the system to see the ...

can anyone tell me how to re load windows xp on my pc.when i put the restore
discs in the cd drive they will not run or load up.dont know much about
computers so step by step help would be really appreciated.want to re load it
because the computer used to belong to somebody else ...

I have xp home on my c: drive , i recently created a partition h: in order
to instal Windows server 2003.
However despite my attempts i cannot get windows server 2003 to load to the
partition and all the files are on the C: drive , consequenlty during the

I've looked through quite a number of activation questions, and found the
bits and pieces.  Here it is all together, maybe it will help the next guy .
. .
MS KB299840 explains a lot.

I've searched these newsgroups and 3rd party forums but haven't found an
answer thasays if it is possible to supress the "Help protect your pc" screen
that appears after the first reboot when installing SP2.
I know it can be suppressed when installing a full copy of WinXP with SP2 ...

I'm having some difficulty with win xp on a drive that  had a new motherboard
installed. I'm getting the NTLDR is missing warning and nothing seems to fix
it. I'm thinking I need to do a re-install to fix the problem. The winxp disk
that was with the pc is not bootable and recovery ...

i have installed windows XP and after post, it goes into a black screen
instead of showing the windows XP loading icon.  what should i do.

Is there a possibility to repartition my harddrive c:  after win xp home has
been installed?
I want a second partition , i've tried the command DISKPART but it seems
that this isn't working.

Hi, i restored windows XP Home on a Compaq Presario, and while installing a
webcam software the machine rebooted and stopped showing the users on the
logon screen (with icons for the users).
I am unable to login to the machine in normal or safe mode and wanted to see

when ever i go to install windows XP on my custom comp it always will reboot
before any thing for instaling it happens and repeat POST all over again.  
What is wrong?

I have the intel 550. Can i install and use xp64 on it, or do i have to have
a 600 type chip?

My present hard disc uses xp professional -- but this was already installed
when I bought my PC, and it seems to be a pirated version.
Consequently, I've now bought windows xp home edition. If I load this in my
CD drive, will it install home edition -- and save all my files (in ...

Is it possible to upgrade SP2 Home to Pro (No updates)?  My VAIO has the Home
SP1 defaulted.  But I keep getting the error STOP 0x00000024.  I have tried
its suggestions on antivirus and chkdsk!  Any assistance is appreciated!

I have set up and am using RIS on windows server 2003 with a number of WinXP
SP2 and Win2k builds with no problems.
I need to set up an install that formats the HDD in FAT32 instead of NTFS as
there are a few legacy software packages that have trouble with the NTFS