Recovery Console XP2

[wigs]

How do I install the recovery console in XP2?
With XP1 all I had to do was to insert my Win XP CD and enter an instruction
at a Command Prompt. When I tried to do that with XP2 installed I got an
error message saying that my installed version was different to that on the
CD, so I tried my SP2 CD and nothing happened when I tried the Command
Prompt instruction.
What do I need to do please?
Wigs

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

If you have upgraded to SP2 and you are using a CD from a previous version
of XP, you will see that error message. To install the Recovery Console in
SP2, you will need to create a slipstreamed SP2 CD.

You can download the SP2 file (266 MBs) from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...BE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en -
or if you have a copy of the SP2 CD, you can copy the xpsp2.exe file from
that CD onto your hard disk/partition and use that:

then follow the directions in the following article to create a slipstreamed
XP CD:

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

 

[jeffrey]

Hi,

You need to slipstream the SP2 into your SP1 install CD. NOt sure how to
do it, but there have been many posts here on how.

Jeff

 

[Michael Stevens]

How do I install the recovery console in XP2?
With XP1 all I had to do was to insert my Win XP CD and enter an
instruction at a Command Prompt. When I tried to do that with XP2
installed I got an error message saying that my installed version was
different to that on the CD, so I tried my SP2 CD and nothing
happened when I tried the Command Prompt instruction.
What do I need to do please?
Wigs

See the special instruction in the link below.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#RC
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[wigs]

Thank you for your response, but what a shambles!
MS appear to have effectively removed a most useful tool from SP2 because
the 'average' user will find your work around quite beyond them. It's a
shame that MS, by design, incompetence or whatever, have effectively removed
one of the most powerful/useful diagnostic tools. Is this something 'mere
mortals' might expect to be re-provided EASILY in the future?
Wigs