How do you install sp1 after sp2 ??

[Left Coast]

I had to reinstall winxp home. My disk does not have sp1 embedded. Windows
update install sp2 and a bucketfull of kb patches but did not install sp1.
Now my Outlook express won't run (can't open msoe.dll) and my drives are
erroring as they are over 137gb and that's about all winxp without sp1 will
support.

I found a copy of sp1 but it won't install if you already have sp2
installed. Do I need to uninstall sp2 and all the other kb's, or is there
some other solution?

 

[peter]

SP1 is part and parcel of SP2..........your problems lie elsewhere
peter

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I had to reinstall winxp home. My disk does not have sp1 embedded.
Windows update install sp2 and a bucketfull of kb patches but did
not install sp1. Now my Outlook express won't run (can't open
msoe.dll) and my drives are erroring as they are over 137gb and
that's about all winxp without sp1 will support.

I found a copy of sp1 but it won't install if you already have sp2
installed. Do I need to uninstall sp2 and all the other kb's, or is
there some other solution?

You don't.
Service Packs are and have always been cumulative.
(In other words, SP2 contains everything SP1 contained and most of the
patches between SP1 and SP2's release date.)

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Shenan Stanley wrote:

I had to reinstall winxp home. My disk does not have sp1 embedded.
Windows update install sp2 and a bucketfull of kb patches but did
not install sp1. Now my Outlook express won't run (can't open
msoe.dll) and my drives are erroring as they are over 137gb and
that's about all winxp without sp1 will support.

I found a copy of sp1 but it won't install if you already have sp2
installed. Do I need to uninstall sp2 and all the other kb's, or is
there some other solution?

You don't.
Service Packs are and have always been cumulative.
(In other words, SP2 contains everything SP1 contained and most of
the patches between SP1 and SP2's release date.)

As for your drive issue - if you installed Windows XP without SP1 or greater
being integrated, you would have ran into the limit during the install
itself.

After the installation of SP1 or SP2 (SP2 in your case) you should be able
to utilize drives larger than that with no problem - and if you are having a
problem - you will have to be very specific about what you are seeing and
what you are doing to see that in order to get help - as only you can see
your computer in these newsgroups.

Your best bet was to integrate SP2 into your installation media and burn a
new copy and use that for installing Windows XP.

 

[Left Coast]

My drives won't format properly (beyond 137gb) with just sp2.. and they are
brand new, just installed. I have to partition them into smaller blocks to
get an error-free format. I didn't have this problem when I had sp1 (before
the crash). Also sp2 gave me an updated msoe.dll (outlook express dynamic
library). It killed my outlook express.

There are other issues in sp1 that are not in sp2. It doesn't install the
usb drivers like sp1 does, so you are left with these ports not working.
Microsoft update will barf on some updates without this pack installed first.
This is why my outlook and also media player 11 don't work. They worked
before the updates. They don't work now.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I had to reinstall winxp home. My disk does not have sp1 embedded.
Windows update install sp2 and a bucketfull of kb patches but did
not install sp1. Now my Outlook express won't run (can't open
msoe.dll) and my drives are erroring as they are over 137gb and
that's about all winxp without sp1 will support.

I found a copy of sp1 but it won't install if you already have sp2
installed. Do I need to uninstall sp2 and all the other kb's, or is
there some other solution?

You don't.
Service Packs are and have always been cumulative.
(In other words, SP2 contains everything SP1 contained and most of
the patches between SP1 and SP2's release date.)

As for your drive issue - if you installed Windows XP without SP1
or greater being integrated, you would have ran into the limit
during the install itself.

After the installation of SP1 or SP2 (SP2 in your case) you should
be able to utilize drives larger than that with no problem - and if
you are having a problem - you will have to be very specific about
what you are seeing and what you are doing to see that in order to
get help - as only you can see your computer in these newsgroups.

Your best bet was to integrate SP2 into your installation media and
burn a new copy and use that for installing Windows XP.

My drives won't format properly (beyond 137gb) with just sp2.. and
they are brand new, just installed. I have to partition them into
smaller blocks to get an error-free format. I didn't have this
problem when I had sp1 (before the crash). Also sp2 gave me an
updated msoe.dll (outlook express dynamic library). It killed my
outlook express.

There are other issues in sp1 that are not in sp2. It doesn't
install the usb drivers like sp1 does, so you are left with these
ports not working. Microsoft update will barf on some updates
without this pack installed first. This is why my outlook and also
media player 11 don't work. They worked before the updates. They
don't work now.

When you reinstalled - did you manually go and update all the hardware
drivers? The lack of proper chipset drivers, video card drivers, network
card drivers, sound card drivers could explain many issues you might have.

Windows Media Player 11 doesn't work on Windows XP without SP2. It is a
requirement.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/11/readme.aspx#Minimumsystemrequirements

The 'USB drivers' are a factor of the hardware manufacturer providing you
with them (usually in the form of motherboard chipset drivers) and as i
said - if it was in SP1/SP1A actually - it was in SP2 plus some.

Sounds to me like you need to download and install all your hardware
drivers.