Re: Any BartPE slipstreaming/recovery experts here?

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Just copy the cd with any burning software. You can also make a slipstreamed cd using your OEM cd and the SP2 for IT Professionals download with a program like nLite.

"Al Dykes" <adykes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:frpai0$ot7$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <O6joZmTiIHA.1168@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Pegasus \(MVP\) <I.can@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Al Dykes" <adykes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:frp8ac$miv$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I have an XP laptop that came with XP/Pro SP1/OEM. It didn't come
with a XP distro disk, just a recovery disk. It's been upgraded to
SP2.

I'be borrowed a CD of XP/ProSP2 Retail.

I want to make a recovery disk. with BartPE.

It is legit to use a Retail SP2 CD with an OEM, SP1 upgraded system?

Can I give the borrowed CD back? If I need to recover, are there any
times when recovery will ask me for the Microsoft CD?

I'm not sure what you mean with "I want to make a recovery
disk. with BartPE." Do you intend to boot the machine with
your Bart PE CD, then copy the system partition to another
disk?

You go on to ask "It is legit to use a Retail SP2 CD with an
OEM, SP1 upgraded system?" Legit to do what? Create
a Bart PE CD? Yes, it is.

I would never run a system without having a Windows
installation CD. To me a recovery CD or partition is insufficient.
If you have a loan of such a CD, take a copy. You can do
so legally - the protected part is in the 25-character product key.


I agree, but it's an otherwise fine machine and I had to take it
as-is, without a distro CD.

To copy a Microsoft Distro XP, is a simple "XCOPY /s" of the file
system OK or do I have to use CD cloning software to make a copy? If I
have a Bart CD, teh file system Cd doesn;t have to be bootable.





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