The next step you could take would be to update your original XP CD with
SP2.
The process is called slipstreaming and it results in a new CD that you can
use when you run System File Checker.
Richard.
<billurie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:43DC4A7A.4050607@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Okay, I bit the bullet and did the sfc bit, inserted my CD,
> and it accepted it and started the procedure. That's the
> good news. The bad news is the next warning, which forced
> me to terminate the procedure:
>
> I got a "You have an older version on your CD" error window,
> and I sure am not going to let ut change files back to pre-SP2
> days.
>
> What next, MD and Rick? Just live with the anomaly until
> it finally dies?
>
> billurie@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> This is a sometimes thing, MD. It accepted it for any
>> number of registrations and upgrades (like to the 'new'
>> Windows Update procedure maybe a year ago), but sometimes
>> it will and sometimes it won't. Can't hurt to try, maybe this
>> month it's in a good mood. Not that I can't live with the
>> sometimes inadequate boot-up, until it finally dies, or I
>> have to buy a new machine for other reasons.
>>
>> MadDog wrote:
>>> Sounds like you're running an illegal copy of Windows XP. Time to bite
>>> the bullet and buy a copy.
>>>
>>> MD
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "billurie@xxxxxxxxxx" wrote:
>>>
>>>> billurie@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>>> Sorry to start new thread, can't find the old one.
>>>>> Rick, you said:
>>>>>
>>>>> Rick "Nutcase" Rogers wrote:
>>>>> > Hi Bill,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Have you tried setting the system in diagnostic mode (msconfig,
>>>>> general tab) to see if the response is more normal? If it is, then
>>>>> start looking to isolate elements in the startup group. The system may
>>>>> be clean, but a startup program may have been munged or be
>>>>> encountering a corrupted file, and is hanging at boot. Might also want
>>>>> to run sfc /scannow.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you be more explicit with that last?
>>>>> What or where is sfc /scannow ??
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> No, I can't go that route. It never likes my XP Pro CD.
>>>> It was corporate or something from a couple of years ago.
>>>> I'll just have to live with it until it either gets
>>>> better (I hope) or gets worse, at which time we'll find
>>>> a different work-around (like inserting a different HD
>>>> clone). Thanks......
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> William B. Lurie
>>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> William B. Lurie
.
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