how to install recovery console on winxp pro servicepak 2

[Guest]

after installing sp2 is it still possible to install recovery console on it?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

A message indicating the "version of Windows on the system is
newer than the version being installed" will happen if you applied
Service Pack 2 and the CD media you are using to install is pre-SP2.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#rcsp2

I would suggest making a new Windows XP CD with SP2 slipstreamed,
then install the Recovery Console or perform a "Repair Install".

Either one of the following utilities makes slipstreaming
(integrating) SP2 into Windows XP a breeze:

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

or

AutoStreamer 1.0.33
http://www.wbeta.com/comments.php?shownews=1063&catid=2

Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Direct Download
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...BE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx

 

[Guest]

In this case please follow the steps below.

WORKAROUNDS:
1. Install the Recovery Console prior to installing SP2.

or

*2. Install the recovery console using a copy of XP that has been
slipstreamed
(updated) with SP2:
a. Copy the contents of the I386 folder on your original XP CD to the
harddrive
(example copy to "c:\xp-cd\i386")
b. Copy network install of XP SP2 to a new folder (c:\xp-sp2)
c. Extract SP2 files Start > Run... > CMD > c:\xp-sp2\xpsp2 -x (extract to
c:\xp-xp2)
d. Run c:\xp-sp2\i386\update\update /s:c:\xp-cd to slipstream SP2 into
the
existing XP files
e. Run c:\xp-cd\i386\winnt32 /cmdcons as usual to install the Recovery
Console

*Thanks to Spencer Gagné ([email protected]) for the steps
above.

or

3. Obtain an XP SP2 CD (XP media with SP2 already integrated), and run the
\cmdcons
switch using this disc instead.

 

[kbg]

This is a great tip
but I don't know where the folder "XPSP2" is created (step c.)
Is that supposed to be "XP-CD" (created in step a.)?

In this case please follow the steps below.

WORKAROUNDS:
1. Install the Recovery Console prior to installing SP2.
or
*2. Install the recovery console using a copy of XP that has been
slipstreamed
(updated) with SP2:
a. Copy the contents of the I386 folder on your original XP CD to the >
harddrive
(example copy to "c:\xp-cd\i386")
b. Copy network install of XP SP2 to a new folder (c:\xp-sp2)
c. Extract SP2 files Start > Run... > CMD > c:\xp-sp2\xpsp2 -x (extract
to
c:\xp-xp2)
d. Run c:\xp-sp2\i386\update\update /s:c:\xp-cd to slipstream SP2 into
the > existing XP files
e. Run c:\xp-cd\i386\winnt32 /cmdcons as usual to install the Recovery
Console

*Thanks to Spencer Gagné ([email protected]) for the steps
above.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

It is not the cd in step a. It is the network install version of SP2 that
you can download from Microsoft. You can also use the SP2 execute file from
the SP2 cd if you have one.

 

[kbg]

thanks for the help
can't find a network version on MS, so will wait for the SP2 CD I asked for.
Another few weeks without recovery console option on the boot won't hurt at
all.

It is not the cd in step a. It is the network install version of SP2 that
you can download from Microsoft. You can also use the SP2 execute file
from the SP2 cd if you have one.

--
Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
(Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested)

This is a great tip
but I don't know where the folder "XPSP2" is created (step c.)
Is that supposed to be "XP-CD" (created in step a.)?

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

can't find a network version on MS, so will wait for the SP2 CD
I asked for. Another few weeks without recovery console option
on the boot won't hurt at all.

Hi

SP2 is available at the Microsoft Download Center
(standalone "network" version, 266 MB):

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=049c9dbe-3b8e-4f30-8245-9e368d3cdb5a