Re: Problem slipstreaming to XP Pro SP1a

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"Richard in AZ" <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I needed to reformat and reinstall a complete system on a Dell computer
that was being donated to a charity.
The original disk provided by Dell was XP Pro SP1a.
Rather than install that disk and then SP2 I wanted to slipstream SP2 with
the original.

And this is where the process runs into a problem between Dell's practice
and the limits of slipstreaming.

When I attempted to use the instructions from
(www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp) which I have
done successfully on several XP HE SP1 disks I kept getting an error
message about the original disk already updated.

Yup, this often happens with Dell disks. It's not SP2 that is applied,
it's other hotfixes.

I then tried "Autoslipstreamer" and every thing seemed to go just fine.
However when I reinstalled XP on the computer, a check showed I only had
SP1. Not even SP1a. I had to then run the SP2 update anyway.

Can anyone shed some wisdom on why the winsupersite processes would not
let SP2 join a SP1a disk. and why I only get a SP1 when I should have
married SP2 with the SP1a disk.

Yes, slipstreaming frequently does not work on Dell disks where other
updates have already been incorporated. Unfortunately this seems to be a
limitation of the process. I'll suggest that Autostreamer (which is
otherwise great) just isn't reporting the error when it fails.

So this leaves you with needing to have a copy of the SP2 file on hand
(which you do, since you tried to slipstream) so that you can run SP2
install as soon as the base install finishes. And *then* you can go and
get the numerous other updates.

HTH
-pk


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