How do I install Windows Recovery Console

[Brian]

I have Windows XP Home operating system. I need to install the Windows
Recovery Console for which I have instructions to install using the Windows
XP CD. However, the CD is for Service Pack 1; but I have updated my system
to Service Pack 2. When I try to install from the CD, it says that it is an
older version and I cannot install. I downloaded Service Pack 2 from the
internet and do not have the CD. Does anyone know of another way to
download and install Windows Recovery Console for Windows XP Home SP-2?

Thank you!
Brian

 

[Taurarian]

You have to slipstream the SP2 into your original WINXP SP1 disk - some links on how
to do this - depending upon what you want/need


Slipstreaming links



Autostreamer
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=188337

http://www.windows-help.net/WindowsXP/winxp-sp2-bootcd.html
Slipstreaming Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Create Bootable CD

http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=248
Creating a bootable Windows XP

http://www.msfn.org/articles.php?action=show&showarticle=49
Universal Windows Slipstreaming and Bootable CD Guide

 

[Dave Patrick]

Create the integrated install.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prbd_std_vzku.asp

then from the run box;

D:\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons

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:
|I have Windows XP Home operating system. I need to install the Windows
| Recovery Console for which I have instructions to install using the
Windows
| XP CD. However, the CD is for Service Pack 1; but I have updated my
system
| to Service Pack 2. When I try to install from the CD, it says that it is
an
| older version and I cannot install. I downloaded Service Pack 2 from the
| internet and do not have the CD. Does anyone know of another way to
| download and install Windows Recovery Console for Windows XP Home SP-2?
|
| Thank you!
| Brian
|
|

 

[Rock]

I have Windows XP Home operating system. I need to install the Windows
Recovery Console for which I have instructions to install using the Windows
XP CD. However, the CD is for Service Pack 1; but I have updated my system
to Service Pack 2. When I try to install from the CD, it says that it is an
older version and I cannot install. I downloaded Service Pack 2 from the
internet and do not have the CD. Does anyone know of another way to
download and install Windows Recovery Console for Windows XP Home SP-2?

Thank you!
Brian

Slipstreamed Windows XP CD Using SP2
http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp2_cd.htm

 

[Brian]

The Autostreamer program looks very slick. Can it also be used if I have
only the "Recovery and Applications/Drivers" disk that came with my
computer? I tried to install them in the CD drive but the program doesn't
recognize them. Thank you!

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have Windows XP Home operating system. I need to install the Windows
Recovery Console for which I have instructions to install using the Windows
XP CD. However, the CD is for Service Pack 1; but I have updated my system
to Service Pack 2. When I try to install from the CD, it says that it is an
older version and I cannot install. I downloaded Service Pack 2 from the
internet and do not have the CD.

If you have the full 266 MB SP2 download, or get the free CD with it,
you can burn a new CD in which that is 'slipstreamed' with your original
CD. That will then do these things, and should you ever need a complete
reinstall will do it in one

 

[NobodyMan]

No. You'll need a Windows XP CD, not the recovery CD that came with
your system.