SP2

[wendyB]

I ordered the cd so I downloaded from that. I want to
reformat my drive now so do I need service pack 1 on my
computer before I can download 2 ,or can I just download
service pack 2.
Also I want to partition my drive. I have 512 mb. and
would like to know what the norm is for each drive size.
I want to make 2 partitions.(XP Home)
You can email me at (e-mail address removed) or answer
here.Thanks in advance for anyone's help.

 

[Manda Luyong]

Can you double check on the size of the hard drive?

 

[Guest]

Total Physical Memory 512.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 165.89 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 1.10 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys


That is what my system information says and I will be
starting new when I reformat.

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

I ordered the cd so I downloaded from that. I want to
reformat my drive now so do I need service pack 1 on my
computer before I can download 2 ,or can I just download
service pack 2.

You only need SP2.

Also I want to partition my drive. I have 512 mb. and
would like to know what the norm is for each drive size.
I want to make 2 partitions.(XP Home)

For the OS/software partition (usually C, I suggest that the size
at least is 10 GB (but I recommend 15 to 20 GB), and then the rest
for a data partition.

 

[Manda Luyong]

That is not the hard drive. It's the RAM you're talking about. But anyway,
back to your original question. You do not need SP1 if you have SP2
available on a CD especially if you're very knowledgeable on computers. If
you don't want to take a chance however, I would suggest that you install
the basic XP, create a restore point, install SP1, create a restore point,
and then install SP2.