Re: Slipstreaming a disk

Slipstreaming won't help you. It sounds like you have a Windows XP upgrade
CD which prompts for the ME media as proof of Windows ownership, and that
the ME CD is an OEM restore media and not a standard ME installation. There
isn't any way around that. You either need to get a full XP installation or
back up a cleanly installed system and use that image to reinstall. A
program like Acronis or Ghost would be best for this. BTW, why are you
repeatedly reformatting? That should almost never be necessary unless there
is a hard drive failure. It sounds like you need to look at your security
and maintenance practices.
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"Dawn_1117" <Dawn@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:erYHXGsAGHA.1028@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I am running XP upgraded from ME. The ME disk is a repair disk (OEM). Is
>there any way to slipstream a disk so that I don't have to put ME on when I
>re-format? It does not recognize my NTFS paritions and my backup partition
>got wiped out when I re-formatted. When I put the XP disk in and it asks
>for the previous operating system disk the ME disk that I have does not
>work so I end up having to install ME on and then install XP which is a
>pain. I would like to create a all in one disk with the SP1 and SP2 on it
>as well.
>
> Thanks
>


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