XP Home without SP

[Guest]

My XP Home disk doesnt have the service packs. I would like to replace a bad
hard drive with a new 400GB drive. Will I have to purchase another XP disk?
Or can I trade it in to Microsoft for one with the SP, so it will recognize
the whole drive? Or can it be made into a SP disk? TIA

 

[Daave]

My XP Home disk doesnt have the service packs. I would like to
replace a bad hard drive with a new 400GB drive. Will I have to
purchase another XP disk? Or can I trade it in to Microsoft for one
with the SP, so it will recognize the whole drive? Or can it be made
into a SP disk? TIA

Please describe your XP Home disk. Is it an installation or recovery
disk? Retail, generic OEM, or branded OEM? What is the make and model of
your PC?

To answer your last question, the answer is yes; the process is called
"slipstreaming." See the following links from
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

Slipstreaming Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2)
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp

Another Slipstream step by step
http://www.msfn.org/articles.php?action=show&showarticle=49

AutoStreamer mirror link for AutoStreamer
http://www.autopatcher.com/autostreamer.html
http://mhtools.knoware.nl/raptor/autostreamer/AutoStreamer.exe

Step by Step on AutoStreamer
http://www.simplyguides.net/guides/using_autostreamer/using_autostreamer.html

 

[Malke]

My XP Home disk doesnt have the service packs. I would like to replace a bad
hard drive with a new 400GB drive. Will I have to purchase another XP disk?
Or can I trade it in to Microsoft for one with the SP, so it will recognize
the whole drive? Or can it be made into a SP disk? TIA

You do not need to purchase another copy of XP. Because you want to
install onto a large drive, slipstream Service Pack 2 into your original
XP install cd. It is very easy to do. Then you will install with the
slipstreamed cd. My preference is for AutoStreamer.

How to slipstream sp2 into XP
http://www.simplyguides.net/guides/using_autostreamer/using_autostreamer.html
- AutoStreamer
http://www.msfn.org/articles.php?action=show&showarticle=49
http://www.windows-help.net/windowsxp/winxp-sp2-bootcd.html
http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp2_cd.htm
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/slipstream.htm

General installation instructions:

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean Install How-To
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Reinstalling_Windows -
What you will need on-hand


Malke

 

[Plato]

My XP Home disk doesnt have the service packs. I would like to replace a bad
hard drive with a new 400GB drive. Will I have to purchase another XP disk?
Or can I trade it in to Microsoft for one with the SP, so it will recognize
the whole drive? Or can it be made into a SP disk? TIA

One can get SP2 from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/default.mspx
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=windowsxpsp2
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/winxpsp2.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...be-3b8e-4f30-8245-9e368d3cdb5a&displaylang=en

Or order a CD from MS:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp2/cdorder/en_us/default.mspx

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

My XP Home disk doesnt have the service packs. I would like to replace a bad
hard drive with a new 400GB drive. Will I have to purchase another XP disk?

No.


Or can I trade it in to Microsoft for one with the SP,

No.


so it will recognize
the whole drive? Or can it be made into a SP disk?

Yes (assuming that yours is an installation CD, not an OEM restore
CD). The process is called slipstreaming.

See
http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=7262
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/slipstream.htm