Hi, My computer froze up last night during some video editing and I think the hard disc has died, probably due to overheating. It is either that or a BIOS problem that won't detect the drive so the...

I have partitioned my disk to install LINUX but now i wish to uninstall LINUX and boot with XP without having to reinstall XP can i do that? I want to completely remove LINUX from the system.

My hard drive is too small so I'm replacing it with a new one. The computer only fits one hard drive. I've got XP, all my programs, cookies, etc set up just the way I want them. Is it possible to...

Hello, I have 40 identical Dell computers running XP and Office 2003 that I have to install. Is there a way to setup one machine, image it and then restore the image to the 39 other machines with...

So I have Windows XP Pro images developed for HP DC5000 & DC7000 Desktops. The images have been sysperped and work fine on 90% of the Computers the other 10% fail to run Windows update because the...

My daughter installed a new EIDE hard drive in her computer. It was FDISKED and formated using a Win98 Boot disk. The Bios was set with CDROM, HDD-0, Floopy. Then she put the WindowsXP Home Edition...

I have a nice new Laptop with xp home pre installed, I would like to use xp pro on the laptop. I have xp pro running on my pc, which I would have given to my niece. Is it possible to uninstall xp...

hi AT the setup of winxp pro i get the blue screen irql_not_less_or_equal stop 0x000000D1 (add1,add2,add3,add4) at the end pcidex.sys i don't know what is the problem please help

I've got RIS running on a Server 2003 machine and when I try to run RiPrep on the XP machine I want to close I get the following message... "Missing CD-ROM Image on Server The RIS server to which...

I had a computer that I recently had to replace thehard drive in. When I go in and try to set up Windows XP, if it doesn't lock up in some part of the setup, it gives me the following error: STOP:...

I will be installing Windows XP on a machine that is out of town and has a shocking internet connection. I have the SP2 cd provided by Microsoft but need a way to install the remainder of new...

This is a reminder to join Mike Nash, Vice President for the Microsoft Security Business Unit, and his team of security experts for a live Security chat this Thursday, November 10, 2005. The chat...

We're learning how to use sysprep to deploy our image to the new computers that we get. I have a couple of questions I hope that someone can answer for me. 1. Is there anyway to run a VBS script...

Items on the administrator desktop end up on all user desktop after it goes through the sysprep. How can I keep this from happening. OS: Windows XP SP2 Sysprep Tool: Ver. 2.0 (inf file has no...

UPDATE: If you unplug the NIC and plug in a Buffalo (as an example) card, even with the 3Com utility running, you can connect to the Internet immediately and without problems using the Windows XP...

I am trying to do a reinstall of XP Pro. When my computer restarts the first time during installation, it just takes me to a blank screen and sits there, does not even try to do anything else. Anyone...

I'm currently running WinME (over Win98) on my PC and want to install WinXP, which I've recently purchased as an OEM version, officially licensed with COA, totally legit. For some unknown reason,...

I created a cd to install windows unattended. The only thing i need it to do is put in the cd key automatically. It works fine when i do an install from scratch booting from the cd. The problem i am...

Okay this problem has me pretty mad since I see postings about about it in many places on the internet but no actual solutions, specifically from Microsoft. Even though this would seem like a common...

I've setup a test RIS server with a single base XP Pro image that was created during the risetup.exe, all services and events on server look normal but workstations PXE booting give the...