oh thanx for confirming that was Russian I've managed to restore by the help of Mr Smartpants First, you'll need your original XP disc (not the nlitened one). Copy intl.inf from the CD to a folder on your desktop. Make a russian.cmd file in notepad with the following: COPY "intl.inf" "%WINDIR%\inf\" rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection LANGUAGE_COLLECTION.BASIC.INSTALL 00000419 %WINDIR%\inf\intl.inf Then run it. If it gives an error of "can't find xxxx.dll", the file will be in %CDROM%\i386\ Or, you could search for the file, copy it to the folder above and add a line in your Russian.cmd file as such: Code: COPY "KBDRU.DLL" "%SystemRoot%\system32\" COPY "kbdbhc.dll" "%SystemRoot%\system32\" COPY "intl.inf" "%WINDIR%\inf\" rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection LANGUAGE_COLLECTION.BASIC.INSTALL 00000419 %WINDIR%\inf\intl.inf