Ive recently upgraded a large portion of my PC and now need to do a clean
install on a fresh hard drive.
I have a Win XP Home SP1 CD which I have used many times before to install
from scratch, verified by an old NT4 CD of mine.  Now, whenever I try and

Hi I have two hard drives on my PC (HDD-0 is Pri Master and HDD-1 is Pri Slave)
Windows XP Home installed on HDD-0, but for reasons that escape me know, I
THINK the MBR is on HDD-1. This means I can't boot Win XP without the HDD-1
being present. How do I

We have an ever-changing inventory of several hundered PCs. When we get a new
computer or reformat an old one, we have to install SP2 and download about 50
updates and fixes.  Is it possible to order a newer CD with all these updates
included on it to use with our existing ...

I goofed plain and simple.
I uninstalled several components, all the games and other items while trying
to find out why IE 7b2 wasn't installing.
Now it's asking for SP2 CD which I don't have and I can not find the

Hey there, I'm a system build, clearly, and I've worked up a system restore
style program that resizes my install partition and creates an image of the
drive onto it. Then I send a disk with my customers that they can put in to
restore their machine from that image.

I just completed a clean install of Windows XP Home on a Dell Inspiron 2500.
I began by installing the original system from the Dell OEM Reinstallation
CD.  I rebooted once, and installed SP2 from the Microsoft disk.  The first
reboot after installing SP2 hung with a black screen  ...

Change your Product Key without a Reinstall to match your
genuine Product Key or COA:
First, please verify if your COA sticker or product key:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/howtotell/en/coa.mspx  

I am trying to put my image on a new Gateway e4500s with a 945G
chipset, but am having trouble with the [SysprepMassStorage] section.
I don't know how to reference the chipset because I can't find it in
the mshdc.inf file (I think it is 27C0)

I want to set up a second Windows XP partition that's totally
barebones, containing the OS, a word processor and that's about all.
I don't want the OS to be able to connect to the other PCs on the
network or be able to go onto the the internet.  For the most part, I

I've just bought a new computer (minus hard drives) after my previous one
failed. I'm trying to install the hard drive containing XP Pro from my
previous machine, but it hangs on boot-up, even in safe mode.
What options do I have for recovering my previous installation (i.e. not

I have a reference in my Miguser.inf to copy the entire D:\    I have a
varible called D_Drive and it copies the entire thing like I asked it to. I
also have a variable C_Data that copies selected files to the D: which works
also We ran into a problem where in some cases we have ...

After a recent acquisition I have an employee that needs access to two
corporate networks with two totally incompatible dial-up and VPN software.
I want to install a machine with two copies of Win XP. One for each
companies software. Everything I have read suggest that this should ...

I have a computer that was pre-install with windows XP but until now it
worked prefectly. So I wipe and repartition my harddrive and reinstall
Windows XP with a OEM CD where I got at a local computer store. I install
windows XP using the new code from the OEM CD. I just wanted ...

I recently downloaded SP2 for XP Pro. On completion, it had substituted all
my emails and address book with an archived copy, thus junking about 200
emails and business contacts. Also startup was inexorably slow with upto a
min to refresh all desktop icons. Having read others ...

I was all set to reformat Disk 1 that is composed of two partitions that are
assigned to Drive C: (15.9 gig) and Drive D: (21.2 gig) into a single 40 gig
drive and then reinstall XPPro, then update it and then install all the
applications that seem to work best when they reside ...