[popper]

i dont have a clean one as he powered it up before i got the chance to make one, and they dont supply one on HD or a cd.

i cant format the single partition as that would loose all the files.

its booting fine , just messing up as it tryed to rerun the pre-setup and fails due to i assume currupt files being built as it first booted and ran the pre 'i agree' MS bit.

all factory, and in this case custom school installed HD images do this pre-install at first time power up, and i never worked out how to use the MS sysprep.

the laptops setup as a single bootable C: partition, and its got several non generic dirs .

including the i386,MSOCache,savwsa, support,sysprep and toshiba on the top dir.

there no setup.exe in the i386 though so i cant simply copy that off and run it elsewere.

there might be enough to make a new slipstream there though.

and i dont know any of the tools in sysprep.

it all comes down to a reset of the pre-install to make it stop crashing and hopefully run through to completion the next time i think.

so i can delete the assumed currupt /windows/system23/config files that got built as he first powered up and it crashed.

i dont know what files need to be in there so as to force a new clean pre-install on next powerup, it seems that is what needs to happen,and the info online is very sparse so i hope you lot have seen this before and know how to sort it.

as far as i can tell, everythings in the C: thats required, its just a bad pre-install build to make the 'i agree' and related MS bits tied to this Hardware.

so i assume there must be a way the admins use the sysprep tools or something else to reset this pre-setup on mass, i dont know how though?.