Re: SP2 makes XP-Home/SP1 CD useless?


"Sharon F" <sharonfDEL@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:u7IFPEMqFHA.1096@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:34:13 -0500, ~ FreeSpirit ~ wrote:

This is from the www.webtree.ca:

"Build an XP-SP2 Recovery Disc
Slipstreaming Service Pack 2
Here's the problem: Once you upgrade to SP2, you won't ever be able to
install the original version of Windows XP over it; you have thus rendered
the ancient practice of reinstalling the operating system impossible."

What happens if I have to reformat and reinstall my OS? All I have is the
CDs from HP with XP-Home/SP1. Should I uninstall SP2 to prevent that from
happening?

FS~
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If I remember correctly you have a multi-disk HP restore set for your
system. That set did not allow you to run the conventional MS repair back
in pre-sp2 time. Instead it runs a special HP recovery program. If that is
the case, creating a slipstreamed CD is not going to work for you.

$$ I was thinking the same thing. I have 6 CDs for XP from HP and there's a D partition on the HD with a copy of XP.

Recovery under these conditions will be:
a) a full restore with the HP program. When that's done, install SP2. Then
go to Windows Update to pick up security updates that were released after
SP2.

$$ Sharon, we have done this 3 times before with this PC and WXP - and the problems just start creeping back. I started in 1996 with W95, then got a HP with W98SE.... we never had these endless problems with those OS's. My husband's old 700MHz running W98 is still going strong without even a BSOD occurring. The OS was never reinstalled in all these years.

b) The "B" option depends on a repair path being supplied by the HP
recovery program and if SP2 can still be uninstalled: Uninstall SP2. Run
the HP repair. When finished, reinstall SP2.

$$ See my reply to the other tech here. I've lost hope that yet another reformat and reinstall of the OS will make this PC as problem free as our old W98 OSs were. I swear, I'd rather put up with an occasional freeze or BSOD than this!!!!

IGNORE THE FOLLOWING IF THE FIRST PART OF THE POST APPLIES TO YOU: 

If on the other hand, you have a CD from HP that contains the conventional
MS setup files (not the HP recovery program) and were able to use it to
follow the directions in this article:

How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341

Then a SP2 slipstreamed CD can be created and would be useful to you. 

$$ I can't make a slipstream CD.  I have 6 XP-Home/SP1 CDs for this PC.

FS~

--
Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User 

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