My pc boots from WXP Pro CDROM, then after completing the text phase
when the yellow bar graph is at 51% the screen turns black and the PC is
shut itself down.  I restart the PC but it does not resume installation
and ntldr is missing is displayed.  Note that 1)the recovery CDROM ...

I cannot find anywhere that describes how to alter the way Paint works.
Specifically, I always want Paint to open with the center horizontally and
vertically un checked, as well as scaling, to fit 1 page of 1 page instead
of 100 percent of normal size.

After running sysprep (with switches -reseal -quiet -mini -pnp) on a Dell
gx520, I ghosted the PC.  Then I turned on the PC from which I just created
the image, it brought up the sysprep mini-wizard and both the keyboard and
mouse are frozen.

Hello, all.
Had a hard disk problem last night, and am now unable to boot from that disk.
So, after attempting several other recovery options, I successfully
installed WinXP on a new HD and then installed the problematic one as a

I recently changed from Win2K to XP and discovered that dynamic disks are not
supported by XP.  I re-installed Win2K and now I find that my one dynamic
disk is 'unreadable' from the Disk Management console.  When I right click
the disk in the Disk Management console the only ...

1. Installed new SATA Drive
2. Installed XP Pro clean install (upgrade from XP Home) I did not install
home 1st
3. Installation went fine

I recently installed a new motherboard and cpu, but I want it to read my
existing hard drive.  When I attempt to run my computer, it won't boot to my
hard drive's windows installation.  A computer technician told me to boot to
my windows xp cd and repair my windows installation.  ...

Just curious about this, not really a problem for me.
I've got a new system I just built with an asus A8N-E
motherboard that has an nforce4 chipset and sata disk
drives.

I have a old pIII-500Mhz notebook without floppy and optical drive.
The bios have not usb boot choice.
How I can install XP ?
I have a external usb2 dvd, the notebook have a USB1 port, I have also

Good afternoon,
I have my master XP SP 2 image built on a Gateway E4500D.  I now need
to use a different machine for building my master image, so I ran
"sysprep.exe -reseal -mini -quiet" on the Gateway using the

Does anybody have this?

I have XP Pro SP2 and run a stand-alone PC from home . Until the other
day I was the Administrator and logged on with the Password blank.
I am the sole user of this PC
Today when I tried to instal an Application , I was refused with a

Hello, My sister gave me her computer that had come with XP Home, but she had
put XP Pro on.  She wanted to keep the XP Pro license for her new computer,
so I installed the XP Home over the XP Pro, reformatting the hard drive in
the process.  

I need to reinstall / repair IE 6.0 on my sony Laptop. I don't have a
Windows XP home SP2 CD with me. My Laptop comes preinstalled with WIN
XP Home SP2

i have media center edition v 2005 which i bought as an OEM pack along with a
barebones system. the software comes on 2 CD's and includes a 3rd CD labeled
"updates for version 2005" which contains just one file:
WindowsXPMediaCenter2005-KB900325-usa.exe