I'm studying for the MCSE 70-270 exam, so my question is hypothetical.  Say
someone wants to do a clean install on 3 computers with different HALs;
otherwise identical.  He needs to get a partition formatted, but not the
whole drive in one partition.  It seems reasonable to boot ...

I have a Windows XP Sp1 unit and need to use the unattended install.  Can
someone send me instructions on how to do the procedure.  The only reason
that I am doing this is to change the location of the Documents and Settings
folder from C: to D: as my C: drive is almost ...

We are in the process of switching from Novell Zenworks
roaming profiles to Windows roaming profiles.  I have a
problem that is about to drive me nuts.  With our Zenworks
profiles, the user is created as a local user in the

I need to move my Favorites bookmarks from a dying HD to
another HD in the system.  But Favorites seems to be more
than just a folder.  Could someone describe the procedure
to move the contents of the Favorites folder to the Favorites

I have just RIPrepped a pc so that I have an image for my ris server and I
have created a remote boot disk for my clients. The remote boot fails saying
it is unable to obtain a dhcp lease. The same PC when booted with the local
OS collects a lease fine.

The school division that I work for produces "base" images for the
hardware configurations that we use.  The one site support folks are
supposed to take the base image, add anything that is site specific and
then deploy the new image out to the machines at the site.  The base

I have lost all these tools under control panel. Admin tools is listed but
when u open nothing listed. Any help appreciated

We have several RIS images available on our RIS server. If we take a brand
new PC and build it using a RIS image, we get the choice of which RIS image
to use and this works fine. But if we take a machine that has previously been
built using RIS, and try to rebuild it, we don't ...

Does it matter what oem Windows XP CD you have unique product key. I thought
that was the case but it did not work. I have license windows xp
professional. The copy that i have does not take my stickers' product key.
What should I do.

I'm trying to transfer the desktop from one HD that is going bad
to another HD.  The desktop has a bunch of files on it that I want
to rescue, and I want to maintain the arrangement of their icons
on the transferred desktop.

We are upgrading our win2k (where users are local admins) to xp (where it's
been suggested this is not a good practice, and we should switch to a model
where users are not admins).
We were told that the priviledges of an installation done from a central

I need to create 2 partitions (C and E each 8gb partition), install XP Pro on
each partition and sysprep each partition so when I restore the image, each
partition will restore as drive C and E and will automatically split the hard
disk in half.

Hello ...
Like several other people, during reformatting and a clean install of XP/Pro
OEM from CD on an IBM 300GL, the installation stalled with the following
error messages.  

I am a professional PC Systems Administrator who has prepared more than 100
Windows images that have been successfully deployed to thousands of PCs.  I
have a problem that started with the new SysPrep for XP SP2 that I have not
seen described here:

OK, you folks are my last hope.
Win2k box was running fine.
Asus P4S533-X BIOS ver. 1004 (latest)
Very basic box - 1 IDE drive on channel 1 and CD-RW on channel 2