DarthNihilius

thanks for the info. I determined from your help and from some trial and error that it was the partition table. I've repartitioned the drive and it now boots into setup. We'll see how my first attempt with nLite works out.

LastSession.ini file attached. LAST_SESSION.INI

one question first, do I need to prepare the image with Nlite on the system I'm updating and plan on re-installing, or can I do it on another computer. I'm currently doing this on another computer which is a Dell Latitude D610. Slightly different, but not much.

I've gone through the process and created an image to install XP from. I've burned this as a bootable cd. When I reboot the computer and select to boot from CD, it seems to start the XP install. It displays, to boot from CD press ANY key. I press enter. It then displays setup is detecting your hardware configuration. This shows for a few seconds and the screen goes black and the computer just sits there. What have I done wrong, or what do I need to do differently ? FYI, I'm trying this on a Dell Latitude D600 and it is already running Fedora 10 on it. Do I need to do anything in particular to identify which partition to install to ?