Reintstall question

[Bob Newman]

My computer came with a previous version of Windows and I upgraded to XP SP2
& have that disk. I want to reformat my HD and reinstall as things are
running slower than sloooooooow. I know there is a way to let me reinstall
the XP SP2 directly rather than having to restore it to the previous version
then upgrade that again. How do I do this please?

Thanks in advance... Bob

 

[JS]

I Use AutoStreamer, it easy to use and for the most part self explanatory

Download Site:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=223562

JS

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

My computer came with a previous version of Windows and I upgraded to
XP SP2 & have that disk. I want to reformat my HD and reinstall as
things are running slower than sloooooooow. I know there is a way to
let me reinstall the XP SP2 directly rather than having to restore it
to the previous version then upgrade that again. How do I do this
please?

Answered in another newsgroup. Please do not send the same message
separately to more than one newsgroup (called multiposting). Doing so just
fragments the thread, so someone who answers in one newsgroup doesn't get to
see answers from others in another newsgroup. And for those who read all the
newsgroups the message is multiposted to, they see the message multiple
times instead of once (they would see it only once if you correctly
crossposted instead). This wastes everyone's time, and gets you poorer help
than you should get.

If you must send the same message to more than one newsgroup, please do so
by crossposting (but only to a *few* related newsgroups).

Please see "What is the accepted way to share a message across multiple
newsgroups?" at http://smjg.port5.com/faqs/usenet/xpost.html

 

[Bob Newman]

My apolologies Ken, I usually don't do that but after posting here I noticed
that the similarly titled group hadabout 3 times more traffic.

BTW: What do you think of the previous response' suggestion of :
"I Use AutoStreamer, it easy to use and for the most part self explanatory

Download Site:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=223562

JS"

Thanks... Bob

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

My apolologies Ken, I usually don't do that but after posting here I
noticed that the similarly titled group hadabout 3 times more traffic.

OK, but it's pretty much the same group of MVPs (and other knowledegeable
folks) in both newsgroups.

BTW: What do you think of the previous response' suggestion of :
"I Use AutoStreamer, it easy to use and for the most part self
explanatory

Autostreamer is a good product, but it's irrelevant to your situation, as I
underatnd it. It's used when you wantto do an upgrade, for example, from XP
Home to XP Professional. If XP Home, already on the computer, has SP2
installed, and your XP Professional CD doesn't, Windows won't let you
upgrade, telling you that you're trying to upgrade to an older version.
What Autostreamer does is let you create a new CD with the latest Service
Pack incorporated in it.

Since what you want to do is a format and clean installation, it doesn't
matter what's already installed there.

 

[Abraxas]

Just boot your machine from the CD. You will have the options during
setup to delete/create partitions, format, and do a completely fresh
installation.

Is your XP SP2 disk a full XP CD or does it contain only SP2? If it
contains SP2 only, you may want to create an SP2 installation CD by
"slipstreaming" sp2 into your original CD to make a new one that has
SP2 in it already. There are quite a few sets of directions for doing
this if you do a search. Here’s some:

http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/winxp-sp2-bootcd.html
http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp2_cd.htm
http://www.simplyguides.net/forums/...9f997&showtopic=1457&pid=1716&st=0&#entry1716