MS has made it impossible to install using original XP CD's?

[RS]

I have a problem installing XP on my desktop machine using my original
XP CD that was pre-service
pack 1. The CD install routine asks for a service pack one CD which I
found
was not downloadable on my laptop using the MS online site. There is
a small exe file there that
is related to SP 1. My laptop OS doesn't need it since it has SP 2 so
it doesn't
end up downloading anything. I may have to reinstall the desktop
since I used the laptop's complete XP CD that had SP 1 and SP 2 and
the activation isn't taking it for the original CD.

Does anyone have any suggestions for this?

For more information, during the install, it asks for a SP 1 CD and
won't go any
further without one.

 

[GreenieLeBrun]

I have a problem installing XP on my desktop machine using my original
XP CD that was pre-service
pack 1. The CD install routine asks for a service pack one CD which I
found
was not downloadable on my laptop using the MS online site. There is
a small exe file there that
is related to SP 1. My laptop OS doesn't need it since it has SP 2 so
it doesn't
end up downloading anything. I may have to reinstall the desktop
since I used the laptop's complete XP CD that had SP 1 and SP 2 and
the activation isn't taking it for the original CD.

Does anyone have any suggestions for this?

For more information, during the install, it asks for a SP 1 CD and
won't go any
further without one.

You could try slipstreaming SP2 and your original CD.

Slipstreamed Windows XP CD Using SP2
http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp2_cd.htm

How to use AutoStreamer to Slipstream Windows XP Service Pack 2
http://www.simplyguides.net/guides/using_autostreamer/using_autostreamer.html

Combining Windows XP with Service Pack 2 for reinstallation (Part 1:
Introduction)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894947/

Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Direct Download
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...BE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en
or http://tinyurl.com/5bobl

You may also like to look at nLite ( http://www.nliteos.com/index.html )
and especially RyanVM's Windows XP Post-SP2 Update Pack
(http://www.ryanvm.net/msfn/updatepack.html)

 

[RS]

But it is asking for SP 1. Do you think it will accept
the SP2 CD?

 

[RalfG]

Is this of any use to you? SP1a:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp1/default.mspx

The network version is the one you can download as an installable file:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp1/network.mspx

Also more details about service packs here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322389


I'm guessing you're having this problem because downgrading from XP SP1 to
XP is not supported.
The XP CD installer couldn't be asking for SP1 because SP1 didn't exist at
the time, so the (SP1) installation files that were already on your computer
must causing the system to be looking for it.
I wonder if it would be asking for an SP1 disc if you could uninstall SP1
prior to trying to reinstall Windows. Anyway, Microsoft may not offer SP1
anymore but you might still find it for download elsewhere on the internet.
Or format the drive/partition and reinstall clean.

If Windows on the computer still runs you could try updating it to SP2. At
least that you can still download and put on a disk if you need it for the
XP reinstallation. SP1 shouldn't be needed after that.

 

[GreenieLeBrun]

But it is asking for SP 1. Do you think it will accept
the SP2 CD?

Service Pack 2 contains all of SP1 and SP1a, once you slipstream SP2 with
your old CD you will, in effect, have an SP2 version of XP.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Service Pack 2 contains all of SP1 and SP1a, once you slipstream SP2 with
your old CD you will, in effect, have an SP2 version of XP.

Yes, but a minor correction. SP1a is exactly the same as SP1, except
that the Java Runtime Environment was removed, as a result of the
lawsuit with Sun. So SP2 includes SP1a, but not SP1.

 

[Plato]

I have a problem installing XP on my desktop machine using my original
XP CD that was pre-service
pack 1. The CD install routine asks for a service pack one CD which I

If you want so use XP, then its best to buy an XP2 CD.

 

[GreenieLeBrun]

Yes, but a minor correction. SP1a is exactly the same as SP1, except
that the Java Runtime Environment was removed, as a result of the
lawsuit with Sun. So SP2 includes SP1a, but not SP1.

I wondered what the difference was.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

If you want so use XP, then its best to buy an XP2 CD.

First, note that it's SP2, not XP2.

Second, that's an absurd recommendation. Buying an SP2 CD when he
already has a Windows XP CD is simply a waste of money. He can easily
create his own slipstreamed SP2 CD, at no cost at all, and entirely
legally.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I wondered what the difference was.

Then I'm extra glad I posted what I did. Glad to help.