I setup a machine, and included IIS.  Then Sysprep'd.  All machines brought
to life with this image are logging the following error in the event log.
I assume this has something to do with the machines being renamed during the
imaging process?  Any fix for this?  is this "bad"?

Okay, I think I have this sysprep/ghost stuff figured out...having
never done this before (I'm the parent-volunteer IT guy for my
daughter's grade school - with just enough knowledge to be dangerous).
I'd sincerely appreciate any of you pros out there commenting on this:

Weve been using sysprep and drive imaging for our remote unattended XP
deployments successfully for some time but have recently started having some
device installation problems.
Examining setupapi.log, the difference betwen our working systems and the

I'm trying to understand the three-time limit when using Sysprep.  I'm
trying to build a 'golden' image of a machine to be cloned out to a
small computer lab at a school (20 machines).  I'm working with a
retail licensed copy of Windows XP Pro.  Needless to say, I'd like to

I have a synchronisation software that mirrors given folders from one PC to
another through mapped drives that are reconnected when logged on. These
network drives however stay offline until I manually open them. At that
moment they are really reconnected and things start to roll ...

I just purchased all the parts to build my computer and they are all
compatible with windows XP but when I try to install it sometimes it will get
as far as restarting and sometimes when is says it is loading windows it will
give me a dark blue screen that says windows was shut ...

Had to replace my hard drive and re-install 'XP' - I won't bore you with how
this happened, BUT my new hard drive got designated as drive letter 'E'
instead of the normal master/boot drive letter 'C'.
This is more of an irritant than an actual problem (some software loads

my computer crashed and im trying to set it back up but i lost the windows
code of activatiion swho can i contact do i call microsoft and or poeple who
installed the software the first time

can I use USMT of FSTW to restore all my programs links when I reinstall
using a new XP disk...I lost the orignal

I'm going to be deploying about 50 new computers that will all have Windows
XP OEM. I want to build a database with the product keys so I don't have to
crawl under the desks with a flashlight if I need to reinstall. But I doubt
my ability to type the keys in accurately.

What is the best way to do a bare metal installaiton on a pc?
I am currenlty working with one hardware vendor for all of the hardware but
now business has it to use a diff vendor for hardware
I am using Ghost and DVD media for deployment , but need something that

I had the array set up -- built it just fine.  I tried to install XP, using
the F6 option; inserted the Promise driver, it installed -- then I was told:
no disk on your system.
Is this RAID controller too old to use in an XP or am I just doing something

In control panel>settings>display i had an option for my display driver that
said something like display windows in monitor or something roughly similar
(i cant check this cause i cant re-access it to see). when i clicked it my
screen went blank. i rebooted xp then could'nt get ...

  I'm trying to get ready to sysprep/ghost an image we are using in a
small grade school computer lab.  This is all Windows XP Professional.
The target computers are all exactly the same - they come out of the
box with a primary partition that is 75G in size.

My computer crashed and I re-installed windows XP home edition but now the
monitor is really dark and I can barely see the text.  It looks like it wants
me to do some kind of registation process, but I can not see what to do.  
Please help! I have a 15yr daugter who is going nuts ...