Tatyana, Thanks for your advice, especially the referral to the MS sysprep tool. I was unaware of its existence and it looks to be most helpful....
I never get as far as being able to opt for safe mode or anything [why I suspect it is deeper than the boot.ini] it just freezes on a black screen...
it is from and to the same machine, I had made an image of the original OS incase of hard drive failure and it failed! I just downloaded the...
After restoring an image of a perfect installation of winXP to a new hard drive and installing that in the old machine I get an error that it...
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