Husky wrote:

I'm back to square one reinstalling XP again. This and most every time it was

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The quickest way to do the Microsoft mantra (RRR) is to take a 'ghost' image of your new install so that you can quickly recover back to a 'clean' install.

Store a second ghost image when you've got the system settings tweaked to what you want.

Also make a copy of your partition table!

(Backups can save many hours... Usually learnt /after/ whatever event.)


Good luck,
Martin


There are those that have never had a disk fail, and then there are those that do backups.