Re: Tried to repair got "Cannot...System Is Newer"...



You need to slipstream your original CD with the SP2 download and burn a new
CD which will then be the XP with SP2 CD - then you can do a repair install.

A Google search on slipstream will provide the necessary info.

"(PeteCresswell)" <x@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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... or something like that: to the effect that the installed system was so
much
newer than the system on the DVD that a repair could not be done.

Seems to me like I installed this system from that DVD.

Is this an artifact of Windows Updates being turned on?

No big thing. I have a stack of CDs that I burned an image to some time
ago... and I think it's on me to have an external drive full of recent
images -
which I'll do from now on with this PC.

But out of curiosity..... did I burn myself by having Windows Update
turned on?
--
PeteCresswell


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