Re-install option lost with SP2 integrated to XP CD

[Heffgé]

Hi,

I burned an XP CD including SP2. If I try to use in order to fix the system
with the classical "Install" then "Repair", the "Repair" option isn't shown.
The only option displayed is "Suppress".

What did I miss ?

Thanks for any idea.

Heffgé

 

[Doum]

Hi,

I burned an XP CD including SP2. If I try to use in order to fix the
system with the classical "Install" then "Repair", the "Repair" option
isn't shown. The only option displayed is "Suppress".

What did I miss ?

Thanks for any idea.

Heffgé

How did you "include" SP2 on your "new" CD?

If I were you, I would slipstream SP3 on the new CD.

HTH

 

[Heffgé]

"Heffgé" <*fgondard*@yahoo.fr> écrivait

How did you "include" SP2 on your "new" CD?

===> I ran update.exe.

If I were you, I would slipstream SP3 on the new CD.

===> I'm not that enthousiastic about SP3. There are updates I don't need.
IE7 or IE8 for exemple. I use Firefox as a browser and IE6 is just rigth
enough for Windows Update.

I also created a winnt.sif file with setupmgr.exe. Might the problem come
from bas coding ?

Heffgé

 

[smlunatick]

===> I ran update.exe.


===> I'm not that enthousiastic about SP3. There are updates I don't need.
IE7 or IE8 for exemple. I use Firefox as a browser and  IE6 is just rigth
enough for Windows Update.

I also created a winnt.sif file with setupmgr.exe. Might the problem come
from bas coding ?

Heffgé

There is really "not" an option to not be using SP3. Microsoft has
stopped all support / updates to any Windows XP that does not have SP3
installed. Windows Update will detect and not offer any newer updates.

 

[smlunatick]

===> I ran update.exe.


===> I'm not that enthousiastic about SP3. There are updates I don't need.
IE7 or IE8 for exemple. I use Firefox as a browser and  IE6 is just rigth
enough for Windows Update.

I also created a winnt.sif file with setupmgr.exe. Might the problem come
from bas coding ?

Heffgé

Also, IE 7 and IE 8 are not part of the SP3 update. These are
separate updates.

 

[Heffgé]

Thank you for this information but that's not the point. Just imagine we're
a few years earlier and SP3 doesn't exist yet.

So, how to build a CD including SP2 and not loose the Repair option ?

Heffgé

 

[smlunatick]

Thank you for this information but that's not the point. Just imagine we're
a few years earlier and SP3 doesn't exist yet.

So, how to build a CD including SP2 and not loose the Repair option ?

Heffgé

There are several tools to slipstream most SPs into the CD:

Autostreamer

nLite -- can also customize the install process and add other
updates.

However, when the Repair option is not available, it might mean that
the original CD never had it. Also, XP would problably not give you
the Repair option when the CD is a different version (Home vs Pro,
OEM vs Retail) or the CD fails to detect the "hugely" messed up
Windows install.

 

[Heffgé]

I burned an other CD, exactly the same way and it works ! I'll never know
what was the problem with the first one.

Anyway, thanks for your help.

Heffgé

 

[Heffgé]

I was too confident.

It works with a re-writable CD, an Emtec bought in a supermark, it doesn't
with my Verbatim plain CDs from a computer store. I burnt three of them,
even trying to reduce burning speed to 4X (the value used by Nero with the
re-writable CD). I'have got the same problem with all of them.

The Eula text is not displayed and I am prompted to suppress Windows.

I really don't understand where the problem would come from.

Heffgé