I figured this would be the best place to post, as the initial part of my problem relates to DD. Someone re-installed XP, and formatted the drive in the process. I'm hoping I can make an image with dd ...

I was helping a friend with a dead XP Home SP2 machine today. The machine would get to the end of the initial XP logo screen, but die with a blue-screen complaining about a corrupted SOFTWARE registry ...

Your Windows PC has a secret recovery tool that's seriously useful - here's how to access it ...

There's one immutable law of PCs: sh*t happens. And when it does, there's usually a way to fix things, if you had the foresight to create one essential recovery tool first. Booting from a USB recovery ...