Reinstalling XP Home

[Guest]

I have a notebook that came with WinXP Home and SP1 on a Recovery CD. I have
a CD with WinXP Home and SP2 that I bought and installed on another computer.


I need to reinstall WinXP on the notebook. How can I reinstall without
having to download all of SP2 from windowsupdate?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

You must only use the Recovery CD that came with
your notebook, then install SP2 from the Windows
Update web site.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
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| I have a notebook that came with WinXP Home and SP1 on a Recovery CD. I have
| a CD with WinXP Home and SP2 that I bought and installed on another computer.
|
| I need to reinstall WinXP on the notebook. How can I reinstall without
| having to download all of SP2 from windowsupdate?

 

[Leigh]

I have a notebook that came with WinXP Home and SP1 on a Recovery CD. I
have
a CD with WinXP Home and SP2 that I bought and installed on another
computer.


I need to reinstall WinXP on the notebook. How can I reinstall without
having to download all of SP2 from windowsupdate?

PJ,

I got a WinXP SP2 CD free from Staples. Microsoft gave the SP2 CDs to
Staples and other retail stores just for the purpose of not having to
download SP2 from Microsoft's site. My WinXP CD is the SP1 version. I was
able to reinstall my OS using my WinXP SP1 disk then used the SP2 CD to
finish the installation.

Leigh

 

[Guest]

You are going to have to use recovery disk. The only other option is if you
had a XP Home OEM disk, then you could slipstream the cd with service pack 2.
I am sure the copy of XP that you have is a retail version, this is
important because the product key that should be on the bottom of your
laptop or with its paper work will work on a OEM copy but not retail or
corporate.
I dont know how you feel about bit torrents or etc, but a OEM disk can be
downloaded on some of their sites. This technically is legal as long as you
only reinstall the oem copy on your laptop. There also will not be any
problems activating as long as it is the OEM CD.

 

[Guest]

Also, to avoid the hassle of Windows updates, go to the Microsoft for I.T.
Professionals site, there you can download the whole service pack to your
hard drive. Once downloaded you execute the file as you would as if
installing any program. This is a much faster method and then you can burn
sp2 to a disk yourself for future use.