XtaC

right click the folder and go to sharing and security, choose the security tab, then remove every group except administrator, and give admin full control. that will make it so that only people in the administrators group can access it. of course make sure that you are in the admin group, and anyone that you don't want to see that folder isn't in the admin group

administrator is the correct way. i'm assuming since Nastradamus is from france that he slipped and added the french ending on there by accident

hey gosh, great explanation and process...haven't tried it yet, but i will soon... just out of curiousity...can't you just copy the winnt32.exe file to the i386 folder and then at some point during the setup, or after it si done, run the winnt32 /cmdcons and let it install the recovery console for you so you have a boot menu with xp and the recovery console there?. i run my system at home like this and it is very handy. no need to find a cd and boot from it when your system goes weird...just boot and pick the recovery console option. just curious if there is a way to make this work... thanks xtac