Setup and Deployment

To Enable or Disable "Automatically restarts"
Hi I am responsible for our corporate moe, lately I have had the desktop support staff asking if we can disable the startup and recovery "Automatically restarts" option. I'd like to know what people think is best practice on this. I know it is annoying if a software/hardware failure occurs as there is no tim... 14 Oct 2009 21:25

Re-Install of XP HOME on a different partition?
Hi Folks, For the last few months I have encountered increasingly more problems and issues with my WINXP Home. It has come down to a decision to do a complete and clean re-install. Problem is, I do not want to over-write the existing primary partition and want to do the clean install on a secondary partition (N... 11 Oct 2009 20:30

install xp with other licenses
I have a question about installing xp using some old licenses we have in our office. We were thinking of buying some new pc's for our office without an os installed. The reason being that we have some older obsolete pc's that are dead but still have the xp license. I tried to experiment by installing with on... 7 Oct 2009 09:40

RAID1, reboot and XP64 rewrites disk signature
I have a Gigabyte MA785GPMT-UD2H motherboard with the AMD SB710 Southbridge that includes a Promise SATA controller. I have it set up as SATA RAID 1 with two drives. I was able to install XP64 onto this fine but when I reboot, XP sees that both drives have the same signature and gives one of them a new signatur... 2 Oct 2009 05:25

Installing XP Pro Like OEM Factory
Is it possible to install XP Pro similar to an OEM factory install? I have a customer who is selling a notebook, and wishes it to be re- formatted and restarted with XP-Pro. He would like it done in advance, so whomever gets the notebook would just need to type in the username and activate XP. He currently has t... 1 Oct 2009 11:44

Use MDT 2010 Join domain is failure
qI deploy windows xp with sp2 use MDT 2010. I set MachineObjectOU propertie at CustomSettings.ini. Our OU is Chinese. So I set the value like "OU=01计算机,OU=MDT测试,OU=XXEmail,DC=sh,DC=corp,DC=xxemail,DC=com". But the join domain task didn't work. I try english OU, everything is ok. And I found the when deployment i... 27 Sep 2009 03:43

Sysprep plus multiple commands and multiple reboots?
We need multiple commands to run after the machine is sysprepped, but we need reboots between them. We tried adding multiple commands to run when configuring sysprep, but the all tried to run during the same boot session so only the first one completed properly. For instance, we need to first run a vbscript... 24 Sep 2009 13:53

XP Setup: File was copied with errors
Hi, i'm sorry if i write down error messages somehow wrong but i'm using a german edition and never used an english one before. With a original Windows XP Professional SP2 Version 2002 OEM CD as source i integrated drivers directly into the cd the same way as microsoft did (dosnet.inf / txtsetup.sif). Every... 22 Sep 2009 08:26

Upgrade from XP to XP-SP3
I have tried to create a new boot disk with SP3 or even XP2 but get an error telling me that the integration failed. This is using the instructions in the post http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/winxp-sp2-bootcd.html The error I am getting says: Failed to copy some or all of the files necessary for integra... 23 Sep 2009 13:20

Installing old Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron Mini?
Hello. I am trying to install Windows XP cleanly onto an used Dell Inspiron Mini (no idea what model it is; do not have its boxes, manuals, discs, etc.), but its installation keeps failing at cdrom0\i386\asms. The error said it cannot find it, but it is there on the CDs (tried slipstreamed SP2 and SP3, other... 18 Oct 2009 20:31