I am having a lot of luck with Linux Puppy on a pendrive. That is what I am sending this message through.
I wanted a i386 directory, so I dled sp3 and installed it and got that i386 dir.
Unfortunately, there were a lot of problems after rebooting.
73 instances of explorer opened, and about 4 errors with other things.
Of course, the ever useless event viewer was empty of any errors.
I stopped aclntusr.exe and kusrinit.exe and miraculously when I login, XP immediately tells me it is saving my settings and it shuts down.
I tried BartPE, but it doesn't let you run services to get programs restarted.
Windows Install disk didn't help much either. It got me to a recovery console but I forgot how to use it. :t
I will be sending a donation to Linux.
Andy
You did do a disk image save before you tried to install ANY Windows SP?
I had the same bad luck with SP2 and I just did a disk image restore and was back in business.
dave.
I have only one drive and no pendrives big enuf to hold a disk image.
I ran erunt before the Sp3 installation. But I can't run it.
Now I am having problems with Linux puppy getting the wireless drivers loaded.
I will get it going or I will be in trouble with my daughter. :dazzled:
Andy