Service Pack 2

[Lindsay]

If I want to slip-stream the SP2 onto my existing XP CD, which download do I
need and where can I get details to do it? Also, should I use my original XP
CD as I have another with SP1 on it?

 

[Jack Gillis]

I slipstreamed Home and Pro last night very easily using Autostreamer.

Download here.
http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/12/2/12-2-183.shtml

Point it to the drive with the original XP and then to the downloaded
SP2 file. (Note that you can point by clicking the flashlight next to
the entry boxes. Then give a file name to the ISO output. Make sure
you use the .iso extension. I'm not 100% sure that extension is
necessary but that seemed to be the only way I could get Autostreamer to
accept a name.

Then burn that ISO file using Nero's File/Burn Image to produce a new
CD with SP2 on it. I don't know what Roxio's or any other burning
program equivalent is but I'm sure they have one.

The process is painless and fun in someways. In fact I think I will do
it once more for my Compaq laptop XP CD.

Go for it!

 

[Joshua Heslinga]

Note that you probably can't slipstream SP2 onto a CD
that already has SP1 slipstreamed on it. (For example, an
OEM CD from Dell.) For slipstreaming, you have to start
from the original XP files.