I'm building a 2nd computer.  I started to install XP on a new hardrive
attached to the 1st computer then thought better of it and decided to do it
all from the 2nd machine.  However now on my 1st computer I get two options a
bootup.  The first is to boot the original XP ...

Help,
I've lost my Certificate of Authenticity for my Windows XP Home edition but
still have the original disk.  Is there any way to get a replacement
certificate ?

    Is it possible to integrate the SCSI Driver into the setup package?
Thanks!

Current laptop (Dell D600): 1.5GB 2.4Ghz 160GB ATA drive with WinXP Pro SP2
(all updates); CD/DVD RW
Wanted laptop (Dell D630): 2GB duo-core 160GB SATA drive; DVD-DL RW
1) Can I EASILY go from the 160GB ATA drive to a 160GB (or higher) SATA

Hi I bought a new Computer a few weeks ago and Vista has been giving me all
kinds of problems so I finally decided to downgrade back to XP but am having
problems. I know how to boot from the Install CD and it detects my C drive I
choose to install and things seem to go smoothly ...

When I try to upgrade win98 installed on D: of a disk with partitions
C/D/E/F to XP everything goes OK till I reboot the computer and then I get a
reboots after the splash screen, and windows finds disk errors as it reboots
over and over again.

I am trying to do a clean install on XP PRO SP2. I left setup running when I
went to work today. Nine hours later, setup is stuck on installing devices. I
have never had this problem before. Any ideas? I tried to do a repair install
first. I guess XP doesn't like Acronis True ...

I'm trying to run sysprep 2 on my Windows XP Pro SP2 computer using the
-reseal -mini switches as outline in the "Preserving OEM Pre-Activation when
Re-installing Windows XP"
Everything is set-up IAW with the above KB article. Yet I get this error

Hello All--
I am encountering a strange situation with a particular HP model workstation
we are deploying in our organization.  Essentially, during the mini-setup
wizard (the very beginning) a missing-file dialog appears which states that

My Mother in law has given me a P3 800Mhz, 512mb ram machine as she has
brought a new one.
It was running Win98 but was unstable so have decided to upgrade to XP.
I run a hard drive test utility (Maxtor) and done a low level format ready

I am part of a software development company and we are using SQL Server 2005
Express edition as our database.  The installation for this requires the user
to have XP SP2 installed.
However, many of our customers have their computers using our software on

My school, Penn State, is part of the MSDN Academic Alliance. I download XP
Pro, with a license number, but I'm having trouble running the XP Home to XP
Pro UPGRADE, not CLEAN INSTALL. Here's what it says...
"An error occurred copying file aepzy4z2.sys to C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\aepzy4z2 ...

Help!
All of a sudden I can no longer login to my Admin account.
I get an error message to the effect that account have been locked out
due to 3 unsuccessful attempts.

Hi All ,
I have Dell pc and using Windows XP
I have the "send & receive fax" software on my pc and i did use it a lot in
the past when i had a land PHONE LINE ,it did worked fine specailly sending

Hi, i have the task of updateing some 200+ computers from w2k w /sp4 to xp w
/sp2. I have been doing some resarch into ways i can go about this and i have
come accorss SMS, GPO, Unattended install.... I have also heard that may be
able to deploy via logon script?? but have not ...