Re: Repair asks for SP1 disk.



delta96 wrote:
> While repairing my XP SP2 machine, it asks for the XP SP1 disk to be
> inserted. I have SP2 installed, and the machine was originally
> upgraded to SP1 via download, so don't have it. Typing in the path
> C:\i386 doesn't work, and SP1 is no longer available for download
> so that I might burn a CD of it. Can anyone help?

Not that I think the file alone will solve your issue.. (Likely need to
make a Windows XP CD with SP1 integrated in it - although that seems weird
if you had SP2 installed - I think you need an XP CD with SP2 integrated
personally - but...)

Service Pack 1 Download
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp1/network.mspx
(Yes - SP1a is SP1 without JVM.)

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