RE: Need to repair XP Pro SP2 OS to get OE6 back, can't slipstream ori
- From: nass <nass@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:26:01 -0800
"Sue Morton" wrote:
Hoping someone here may be able to help! I have searched several groups
and forums, and come up empty. Please point me to any web pages or
posts that you think may help or I might have missed, thank you!
I have a Gateway Laptop. The CD that came with the Laptop is OEM XP Pro
CD but is only SP1. I have since applied SP2 to the laptop.
OE6 got clobbered at some later point and eventually I wanted it back,
so followed MS article to remove and reinstall OE6. Except OE6 won't
reinstall by any of suggested means. Last option suggested is to try a
repair-install of XP from XP CD.
To do the repair-install, I first need to create a slipstreamed XP CD
with SP2. The Gateway OEM CD will not slipstream with SP2 due to
Gateway having 'patched' the CD.
I have an OEM generic XP Pro SP2 CD I bought for a homebuilt machine, so
I tried a repair install using that CD, the repair install went fine but
unfortunately Windows validation would not let me log on without first
insisting I validate as genuine. It would no longer accept my Gateway
laptop install Key as a valid.
Fortunately I had a disk image prior to trying the generic XP repair so
I was able to recover.
1. Does anyone know a way I can slipstream my original gateway CD with
SP2 (preferred option!) so I can do a valid and legal repair-install to
this machine? Gateway wants me to purchase a new CD with a new license
key just to get SP2!
2. Is there another way I can repair OE6 without doing an XP repair-install
3. ??? ideas on how to get OE6 back? I have probably tried them all
but no way to know until I ask
I could of course live without OE6 and use Thunderbird or other, and I
could also format c: and start over from scratch. But I'd really like
to be able to have a valid XP-SP2 CD for this machine if at all
possible, that would be best of all.
Help would really be appreciated.
Thanks and regards,
Sue Morton
Hi Sue,
Try this instruction here and download either or both Nlie or Autostreamer,
then see if you could use either to remove the Hotfixes instaled with the SP1
on your Gateway or if you lucky it will do it without removing the Hotfixes
on the CD.
Beaware that you have the Right XP operating system CD not the second one
for Drivers and Extra Softwares:
Instructions on how to perform Slipstream SP2 to your XP CD:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp
Instructions and download of Nlite application to use to remove the Hotfixes
installed etra with SP1 on Gateway
http://techrepublic.com.com/5206-6230-0.html;jsessionid=AI-QGXmlJla_xm732q?forumID=89&threadID=171797&start=0
HTH.
Please let us know.
Regards,
nass
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