J
Jerry
My buddy had to replace the hard drive in PC. He had never installed xp
before, so I went over to help. I set the bios to boot from the cdrom and
placed the xp with sp1 cd into the cd drive and restarted. All went very
well. We partitioned the hard drive and xp installed without any problems.
After xp was installed, we formatted the extra partitions. It was now time
to update xp. He had the Update CD and the SP2 CD both from Microsoft. We
put the update cd in and told it to install the updates. Ahhhh it did not
even try to install the updates, but a new page came up and said basically
after the updates were installed to go to the windows update page.
No big deal, as we were going to install SP2 anyway, we put the SP2 disk in.
The very same thing happened. SP2 would not install and the same page came
up saying go to the update page.
Being curious, I had the downloaded the sp2 <277mb not the beta> file on CD
and decided to try it. Darn this would not work either.
We did finally go to the xp update page and installed sp2 with all the
updates. Everything is running fine now.
I made some calls to some friends and was told that the CDs and the sp2 file
were time limited. I find this incredulous that Microsoft would actually do
something like this. Is this infact true? or have I missed something. The
whole idea of these CDs or the sp2 file was to save the user from having to
repeatedly download all the updates and to reduce the time on MS servers.
I know many people that used the sp2 file to slipstream xp. How would that
be affected? I know I praised Microsoft when the CD programs were started.
It was great idea and they received very good press from it. So if this
time limit is true, then the whole program was a sham.
Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated.
before, so I went over to help. I set the bios to boot from the cdrom and
placed the xp with sp1 cd into the cd drive and restarted. All went very
well. We partitioned the hard drive and xp installed without any problems.
After xp was installed, we formatted the extra partitions. It was now time
to update xp. He had the Update CD and the SP2 CD both from Microsoft. We
put the update cd in and told it to install the updates. Ahhhh it did not
even try to install the updates, but a new page came up and said basically
after the updates were installed to go to the windows update page.
No big deal, as we were going to install SP2 anyway, we put the SP2 disk in.
The very same thing happened. SP2 would not install and the same page came
up saying go to the update page.
Being curious, I had the downloaded the sp2 <277mb not the beta> file on CD
and decided to try it. Darn this would not work either.
We did finally go to the xp update page and installed sp2 with all the
updates. Everything is running fine now.
I made some calls to some friends and was told that the CDs and the sp2 file
were time limited. I find this incredulous that Microsoft would actually do
something like this. Is this infact true? or have I missed something. The
whole idea of these CDs or the sp2 file was to save the user from having to
repeatedly download all the updates and to reduce the time on MS servers.
I know many people that used the sp2 file to slipstream xp. How would that
be affected? I know I praised Microsoft when the CD programs were started.
It was great idea and they received very good press from it. So if this
time limit is true, then the whole program was a sham.
Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated.