Windows XP Home Edition Reinstall problems

[smlunatick]

Thanks for the response. I'm trying to perform an "in-place upgrade of
Windows XP", so I'm trying to do it while still running XP to avoid starting
from scratch.






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You can not!!!! XP can not upgrade XP. You can only do a "repair"
install while booting the XP install CD.

 

[Guest]

Thanks. I burned the CD last night before I started worrying that I had the
worng SP2 download file, so I'll give it a try now.

 

[Guest]

The slipstreamed CD worked OK!
Thanks for your help everyone.

 

[JS]

You're welcome.

JS

The slipstreamed CD worked OK!
Thanks for your help everyone.

 

[Calum1989]

I'm trying to reinstallWindowsXPHome Edition and am running into problems.
The computer has SP2 installed, but the CD is older than that so it won't
reinstall from the CD.
I followed the instructions in Microsoft KB article 900871 to integrate the
SP2 files into theWindowsXPinstallation folder. This seemed to work OK.
However, when I ran the upgrade from the installation folder, I received
numerous (94) file copy error messages. These were for all kinds of files
(.dll, .icm, .reg, .asp, .htm, .ocx, .mar, .inf, .exe & .sys). I kept
telling it to continue anyway.
Then when it restarted as part of the upgrade process, after the restart I
get an error message that states "file hpt3xx.sys could not be found" and it
won't let me continue.

Does anyone have any idea what the problem is here?

the disc is obviously not copying all the required installation files
over on to the hard drive