Window xp installation history missing

This is also why when folks trying to help give you instructions to put in your XP CD and expand the hal. The second problem with that advice is most people do not have an XP installation CD to begin with, so you need to come up with some other plan if you are compelled to replace the hal.

That kind of help is usually going to be very wrong - although it sort of makes sense at first and is "logical", but it will never work out favorably and that is generally not the problem anyway. You can learn about all the different hal. I have never needed to replace a hal. Here is a boot. You can avoid the mess and that next complaint though. Also, XP does not even need a boot. Rename the one you have, reboot and XP will complain about the missing file, but still boot just fine into the first XP partition it finds, then you can fix the afflicted boot.

MS says you can't crack an Administrator password. Good - you don't want to do that anyway. Cracking passwords takes a long time on XP and forever on Windows 7. You never want to try to crack the password, or change it or reset it - you just want to clear it so there is no password, and that takes about 10 seconds using the methods you hopefully know about it or Internet tools you can research.

You just want to "clear" it MS Says you can't crack passwords. Since you are just clearing the password and not cracking it, you should be fine using your methods that you know about right? You are not cracking the password - you are clearing the password.

Those are not the same things so you are in no violation of the MS rules about password cracking. That tells us that whoever came up with that statement has no clue about cracking, hacking, reseting or clearing passwords. Probably little clue about XP in general except the ability to spell it properly. But, you know what they meant to say If you can't get into the Recovery Console because of an Administrator password, you can use something like a Hiren's CD to clear the password of course, or you could just edit the registry to tell XP that the Recovery Console does not require a password and then it won't even ask you.

Thankfully, a Google search brought a lifesaver. Somebody has modded his own universal AHCI drivers with support for the newer chipsets. You can download the driver here or in the picture link below. Download older version of nLite 1. Just add everything in. OEM in the driver zip to see which is the correct driver for your Southbridge model to specifically slipstream in. We have to convert them to MBR. We shall use a partitioning tool called GParted to do the job.

Just download the ISO image and boot from it. The GParted program will start automatically on boot. You may be tempted to just restart and allow the XP installer create the partitions during the next install step. Modern Advanced Format drives from now use a 4KiB sector size instead of bytes which was the era where XP was designed.

If your created partition is not aligned to 4KiB, which a legacy OS like XP will get wrong, you will have performance issues. More details can be found here and here. Ensure that your first partition has a Free space preceding of 1 MiB to ensure the partition is aligned to the 4KiB boundary. Remember that in an MBR layout, you can have at most 4 primary partitions.

This screen greets you at the start. Future Windows setups will no longer have this blue background with white text theme. This is a legacy from the Windows 3. You can see the similarity in this Windows 3. The XP installer should now treat your hard disk controller as if it has recognised it from the day the image was made.

It will reboot to the GUI installer after some time. Easiest Windows eh? Integrated CD recording was such a hit thing then, nobody ever does it today.

At one point you can customise the date range option. The default is which is awfully close already, you should change that to something further away.

This window indicates your Setup process is coming to an end. This section was actually introduced in Service Pack 2 in to encourage more people to update Windows in response to greater security threats. And we are almost done! Not totally, but successfully reaching the desktop is a major milestone in any OS installation.

Look at the mass of missing drivers man. This laptop does not have a RJ45 ethernet adapter. I happened to purchase this USB 3. Without graphics drivers, the video performance of the OS will be very sluggish. The screen will occasionally flicker and frame rate is low when you do stuff like dragging the application window or scrolling in your web browser. Many sources online claim Intel no longer supports it yet drivers seem to be floating around like here and here.

ONLY if you finally cannot find driver for your video card I recommend you to use mine vbemp. Thursday, August 18, PM. Based on your last couple of posts, I'd like to suggest that you may find some benefit from reviewing these two document sets: Update Management - an overview of the Microsoft philosphy and methodologies for patch management in the Windows environment. Why is there no mention of the 36 available updates? The updates for this Windows XP system are not approved for the correct groups.

This Windows XP system is not assigned to the correct group s and thus is not getting the intended approvals. Lawrence Garvin, M. Although it does not appear to be the end of the log file, it is.

The last line above is literally the last line of the log file. Friday, August 19, AM. Hi there, Are you sure you're looking at the correct file? Best Regards, Tiago Viana. The machine already had the latest WUAgent!

Wednesday, August 24, PM. It makes sense that the WU agent could of been corrupted. What information is missing? Confirmation of configuration settings for the WindowsUpdateAgent. Well strike me down. Get over yourself. Thursday, August 25, AM. You can try this out..