I have an XP (SP2) image in sysprep factory mode on ACPI compliant
hardware using the STDPC HAL. I expanded HALAACPI.DL_ to HAL2.DLL. I then
renamed HAL.DLL to HAL.OLD and HAL2.DLL to HAL.DLL, then rebooted.
Everything seems to be running just fine. Sysprep did not ...

I have WinXP Pro 32-bit installed on one drive "partition".  It's actually a
separate drive controlle completely (RAID).  I have WinXP Pro x64 Evaluation
installed on another drive (another RAID controller, but a single SATA
drive).  I do not wish to install all apps twice.  Apps ...

I have just purchased the Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade.  However, I want
to install it as a new installation (which I understand can be done).  Here
is the situation.  I have Windows ME as my OS.  I have two physical hard
drives.  The first is a SCSI drive partitioned into ...

Back with Win2K, I used to be able to SYSPREP an upgrade installation using
a retail upgrade product key.  When I deployed this image, we had OEM
product keys... so they deployed just fine but wouldn't take the OEM keys.
I figured as much, and have since redone the Win2K images with ...

I have made a CD with WinXP SP2 integrated into the CD. I install the OS
from this CD. OS installs fine. I load the WinXP SP2 deploy.cab tools that
include the newest version of sysprep.exe. I run sysprep.exe with these
command line options:

I am tring to upgrade my computer to XP home ed. but having a striange issue.
I had an old 400 celeron system that would not allow me to install XP due to
a Highpoint DMA controller blocking issue on my Abit 6 Mo Bo. I have since
upgraded my main computer (p4 3.0ghz) and now want ...

Is there a simple soloution to this?
I did a major upgrade to my PC - new 200G HDD to suppliment an existing 80G
drive. The 80G had been partitioned 15/60, with a Windows XP Home on the 20G
side.

I can't seem to upgrade to win xp home edition. I bought the win xp home
upgrade disk at best buy last week. I'm running win me now. my
motherboard is a soyo 6ba+III. cpu is PIII 550E. 192 mb ram. video card
is a voodoo 3000 agp. My hard drive is connected to the motherboard

Here's the scenario:
We have a "campus license" for some MS products -- including Windows XP
Pro.
However, "personal computer" users can *not* use this license.  They

Is there any way to load mulitple mass storage controllers on a PC im
using to image, to push out to other machines with differnt
controllers, without using Sysprep?
If so, how?

I just built a AMD Athlon XP 2900 2.2 GHz with 512MB RAM, 120GB HD, 64MB
Video Card, and a Chaintech motherboard. When I use Windows XP as a boot cd
and at the beginning of the setup (right after where it says "To Setup Hit
Enter", my computer shutsdown but the LED Power light ...

I want to use usmt to backup users HDD's prior to migration.  Unfortunately,
I don't know where the users have stored their data on the C: drive, it could
be anywhere.
The easiest way I have of determining users data is to exclude everything

I am upgrading from Windows 98se and the process proceeds apparently
normally.  The upgrade process generated a user profile from the
Workgroup computer ID.  When starting XP, I am presented with a select
user menu and when I click on the appropriate user, the system hangs at

i've heard that Microsoft have announced a new version of USMT (User
State Migration Tool).
Does anyone know more about it? I've try'd to find out something about
it on the MS-Sites, but have nothing found there.

I am using an OEMpnpdrivers path to install some Dell drivers when the
image is booting for the first time.  As the sysprep.inf file scans the
directories it finds the drivers ok, but then comes up with a "confirm
file replace" message each time it needs to copy from the Dell ...