RE: SP2 Paranoia

From: r (r_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/15/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 19:15:01 -0700

If you are paranoid, maybe you shouldn’t upgrade...

How to successfully install Windows XP Service Pack 2:
http://www.fixyourwindows.com/winxpsp2install.htm

Hope this helps! 

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"Nobody Special" wrote:
> I'm really paranoid about doing the SP2 update. All the 
> Microsoft Knowledge Base articles I read tell me that I 
> will need my Windows XP CD ROM if I need to do something 
> or other to my system. I have serious problems with that. 
> First off, my HP Pavilion Desktop computer didn't come 
> with a Windows XP CD. It came with a system restore 
> utility instead. Couple of problems with that - what 
> happens if my computer won't boot to Windows? How do I get 
> to that utility? Plus, the last time I had to do that, it 
> reinstalled Windows XP alright - the ORIGIONAL system that 
> came with the computer. All my programs and data were 
> gone! and it took me four months of headaches to get my 
> system back to where it was, and that was because some dll 
> file or whatever someplace went capoots. With almost 
> 100,000 files presently on my computer, you can appreciate 
> why I'm just a tad paranoid about doing anything that 
> might make it unusable, especially reading all the horror 
> stories out there regarding problems with SP2. So, I guess 
> my real question is whether or not there is some 
> relatively painless way to back up my system. I have 
> Norton Ghost and yesterday decided to do the backup 
> process with Ghost. Well, everything went just fine until 
> the last (10th) CD when Norton Ghost crashed and wouldn't 
> restart from where it left off. As you might imagine, I 
> was just a tad more than pi**ed off. I proceeded to 
> uninstall Norton Ghost and lo and behold, this morning I 
> noticed that all my System Restore points had gone 
> byebyes. Would one of you highly informed tech types 
> please help me out here with some good advice? I'd really 
> really appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
> 
>

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