My hard drive is too small so I'm replacing it with a new one.  The computer
only fits one hard drive.  I've got XP, all my programs, cookies, etc set up
just the way I want them.  Is it possible to copy an image of the old hard
drive to another computer over the network and then ...

I have 40 identical Dell computers running XP and Office 2003 that I have to
install.
Is there a way to setup one machine, image it and then restore the image to
the 39 other machines with corresponding unique key for XP and Office.

My daughter installed a new EIDE hard drive in her computer. It was FDISKED
and  formated using a Win98 Boot disk.  The Bios was set with CDROM, HDD-0,
Floopy. Then she put the WindowsXP Home Edition CD OEM in the DVD and ran
Setup -- it went the to point of "Welcome to setup";  ...

I have a nice new Laptop with xp home  pre installed, I  would like to use xp
pro on the laptop. I have xp pro running on my pc, which I would  have given
to my niece.
Is it possible to uninstall xp pro from pc and revert back to home

AT the setup of winxp pro i get the blue screen
irql_not_less_or_equal  stop 0x000000D1
(add1,add2,add3,add4)
at the end pcidex.sys

I had a computer that I recently had to replace thehard drive in. When I go
in and try to set up Windows XP, if it doesn't lock up in some part of the
setup, it gives me the following error:
STOP: 0x0000007E (0x0000005, 0xF98FA51B, 0xF9F0DC4C, 0xF9F0D94C)

I will be installing Windows XP on a machine that is out of town and has a
shocking internet connection.  I have the SP2 cd provided by Microsoft but
need a way to install the remainder of new updates from CD.
Where can I download all the XP updates since service pack 2?

We're learning how to use sysprep to deploy our image to the new computers
that we get.  I have a couple of questions I hope that someone can answer for
me.
1.  Is there anyway to run a VBS script during the sysprep?  Specifically we

Items on the administrator desktop end up on all user desktop after it goes
through the sysprep. How can I keep this from happening.
OS: Windows XP SP2
Sysprep Tool: Ver. 2.0 (inf file has no reference to copy items to all users

I am trying to do a reinstall of XP Pro. When my computer restarts the first
time during installation, it just takes me to a blank screen and sits there,
does not even try to do anything else. Anyone know why this is? Also, is
there a way to clean out a partial installation that ...

I'm currently running WinME (over Win98) on my PC and want to install WinXP,
which I've recently purchased as an OEM version, officially licensed with
COA, totally legit.
For some unknown reason, the XP install goes smoothly until it reaches the

I created a cd to install windows unattended. The only thing i need it to do
is put in the cd key automatically. It works fine when i do an install from
scratch booting from the cd. The problem i am having is when the installation
is an upgrade from an os the key and other ...

I have searched dilligently on the Internet and found nothing. I hope you can
explain a change in the behavior of my WIN XP Pro SP2 operating system.
I just exchanged Dell Inspiron 600m notebook computers, with presumably
identical installed and current XP Pro operating systems. ...

I have a utility that performs some windows customizations to
install/configure XP for an old dos-based program.
After running the tool, references to %system& in the path environmental
variable seem to be nullified.  For example if I go to cmd and type 'edit' I

I have  tried several times to download this service pack 2 only to be told I
can not download it.  The computer goes threw the intire download steps and
at the end  I get a message saying windows was unable to download this
service pk 2 and then it removes what ever was ...