same here, BUT ONLY, if i use a custom bootscreen, or an old one. if i EDIT the one that comes with SP2, and add my images to it, it works, BUT, the image starts showing fine, then, its colord go nuts, and the moving dots apear. i don't really know what the problem is, the colors change, like when you have a 24 bit bitmap, and save it as a 16 bits one. i tried using 16 and 24 bits bitmaps and the same thing happens. what should i do ? OK, I think I found the answer to our problems. The ntfs.sys corrupt error is caused by useing the wrong version of ntoskrnl.exe. For SP2 is should be version 5.1.2600.2180. If you use anything else, you will get that error. Now, as for the color problems.... http://www.bootxp.net/ has a program that will take care of it for us (I havent tried it yet, but will soon) If you want to do it yourself this guy has a great guide. http://www.geocities.com/thejjoelc/XPbootcolors.html It looks to be a royal pain in the tail section, especially if you have never done any hex editing (like me) but everything looks step by step, so Im gonna give it a try.