I am about to start testing the program newSID on my XP deployments to avoid
using sysprep to change the systems SID.  I was wondering if anyone had any
experience with using it, and/or had any problems with it.
Robert

I had a Dell Desktop with ME on it. Last night I wiped the HD completely to
install Windows XP Pro on it. I downloaded the XP Pro Boot utility from the
Microsoft website, because the computer does not have a boot cd drive.
After going through the process of inserting the 6 boot ...

is it possible to insyall sp2 on my old computer running xp with new xp
service pack 2 disc that i installed on new computer as i have slow dial up

When I install my XP or W2003 machines with RIS, the system partition fills
the free space existing on my disk.
How can I do to force RIS formating my system partition with a custom size ?
Thanks

So far, I have successfully upgraded a home built PC and an Acer laptop to
SP2 but I have been unseuccessful updating a per-built desktop. It's a
Medion/Cybercom PC around 2.5 years old with an AMD Athlon 64 processor.
Whenever I apply the SP2 update, the following happens when ...

I have a pc which had windows 98 installed. I think it also had a
partition with restore information on. I have tried to install windows
xp. I reformatted the hard drive, deleting all previous partitions,
but when it boots up it says "searching for boot record for ide-0. ok"

I seem to have an issue with the P5W WS 64 Profesional motherboard and
Western Digital 320GB WD320YS hard drive.
I setup the motherboard for Standard IDE and also AHIC when I boot Windows
Vista Business it doesn't detect the SATA hard drive. When I put in the

I found an article that referes to using Windows SP1 to correct this error.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=318159&sd=RMVP
Can anyone tell me if this is going to be like a reformatting or the hard
drive?

I am enrolled in this class and just finished using the TCP Optimizer.  
Now I can not get my computer booted up
It is a Toshiba notebook and am running Windows XP
After running TCP Optimizer I get the following error

During an initial windows xp installation some type of error occured in
reading files from CD. I'm offered a log of the error  and when I close the
log the PC reboots and restarts the installation process from where it left
off - then to fail at the same location over and over. I ...

Aquired a "legal" copy of XP Pro SP2 and wanted to upgrade my XP Home. It
stalls at reboot with the barred scroll bar at the bottom at about 95%.  Have
tried several times with same result. Why? Solution?