I help a friend to fix problems in his Win xp system. We decided to run
repair with a slipstreamed XP Home OEM sp2 CD. Everything went well. When
entering the product key , it complains "not valid". OK, no misspelling. The
key can be invalid or pirate. OEM key issued by IBM.

I have this sysprep-image, which I built on a Dell GX620 and i'm trying to
deploy on a Dell D410 Laptop.
When the machine starts after the image is downloaded, it just stops
responding at the "Wait" screen when detecting hardware. There is nothing to

Im using sysprep to create 1 image for our machines, Mostly Dells but have
approx 7 different models taht im deploying on. Creating my image on a Dell
GX620 ACPI Multiprocessor machine.
From what  I read that HAL is compatable with the ACPI uniporcessor HAL,

I am upgrading a computer from windows 2000 to XP.
To upgrade I am tyring to run winnt32.exe /cmd:command_line.
Doumentation indicates that you can run commands during the upgrade process.
One of the commands I would like to run is defrag c:\.

I have a group of about 40 Dell Dimension 2400 Workstations, with the
computer name numbered W1000-W1039.  Each department has a certain set of
applications that they need to use, in addition to the standard build of
Windows XP SP2, and Office 2003 (so I will be making an image for ...

   I now have OS 98 on  the PC. I'm going to reformat C or should
say have to. Ten years of use and probable lots of bugs... Then I'm
going to install XP Pro. My question is should I do a clean installation
of XP or should I install 98 then upgrade????

how cn i not install the darn movie maker (or shortcut) in a plain RIS image
(no sysprep, although 3rd party drivers)?
i checked the deploy.cab, but it is not mentioned.
regards

  I just recently built my computer. I go into BIOS, everything checks out
OK, so i put in the OS.  When the blue screen appears, it starts uploading
everything as usual, but before the actauly setup of downloading the XP, a
error screen pops up.

We have an old computer which is about to crash soon. I used Ghost to image
the hard drive and put the new hard drive on a different computer hardware.
It can not boot. I know VMware can go into a VM's registry and modify
registry, replace video and NIC driver, etc.  

I have tried to update Windows XP Home to XP prof. I get an error message
saying that it cannot copy videoprt.sy_ to $WINNT$.~BT if l skip this file
the installations continues but after a reboot it comes up with the message
VGA.SYS is corrupt and the install terminates.

My wife uses a laptop at work and home, naturally the lan network at each is
configured differently so I have configured different hardware profiles to
control the use of the network card and settings at each location but I have
a problem.

I am trying to upgrade my S325 from XP home to XP Pro.  I am trying to
do a clean install.  Everytime I try to install from the CD I get to
the "Set up is starting Windows" and the computer just stops
responding.  I have tried the info contained in the following KB

How do I make WMP my default player?

I hvae a riprep'd image of a dell gx620. I wish to copy files over during
the RIS process so I can kick off the Novell installer (NOvell NICI will not
riprep) on the frst boot using [GuiRunOnce]
XPCd is my flat image of the install cd, GX620 is the Rip's iage of a dell

I'm looking to see if I can slipstream all the latest hotfixes into SP2
_itself_.
I want to do this so I can create an SMS package that will save me some time
by getting every one up to SP2 and the latest hotfixes all in one shot.