XP Repair boot from distro CD ?

[Al Dykes]

Does an XP media have a bootable repair proceedure ? Assuming yes,
how exact does the revision level have to be ?

I have a compaq laptop that does a BSOD during boot and I'd like to
try to recover the system before I blow away the system and restore
from scratch. The laptop came with CDs that can only restore the
machine to the factore configuration. I knew that when I bought it,
I always buy retail media for business critical systems.

From the factory it runs XP/pro. The system has been updated
to SP1a. Can I buy or borrow any XP media and try to do
a recovery ? I know I'd have to reapply patches afterwords.

DOes it matter if all I can get is an SP1a CD ?


Thanks

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

No, any 'ol Windows XP Pro CD cannot be used with
a computer running Windows Media Center Edition.

Chat with a Compaq Support Analyst
http://ipgweb.cce.hp.com/bus-nacons/caller/chat_pilot.asp

Compaq Presario Desktop PCs - How to Perform a System Recovery
http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/docume...cat=&prodId=compaqpres89327&docName=c00007689

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| Does an XP media have a bootable repair proceedure ? Assuming yes,
| how exact does the revision level have to be ?
|
| I have a compaq laptop that does a BSOD during boot and I'd like to
| try to recover the system before I blow away the system and restore
| from scratch. The laptop came with CDs that can only restore the
| machine to the factore configuration. I knew that when I bought it,
| I always buy retail media for business critical systems.
|
| From the factory it runs XP/pro. The system has been updated
| to SP1a. Can I buy or borrow any XP media and try to do
| a recovery ? I know I'd have to reapply patches afterwords.
|
| DOes it matter if all I can get is an SP1a CD ?
|
|
| Thanks
|
|
|
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| Al Dykes
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| (e-mail address removed)
|

 

[kurttrail]

Does an XP media have a bootable repair proceedure ? Assuming yes,
how exact does the revision level have to be ?

I have a compaq laptop that does a BSOD during boot and I'd like to
try to recover the system before I blow away the system and restore
from scratch. The laptop came with CDs that can only restore the
machine to the factore configuration. I knew that when I bought it,
I always buy retail media for business critical systems.

From the factory it runs XP/pro. The system has been updated
to SP1a. Can I buy or borrow any XP media and try to do
a recovery ? I know I'd have to reapply patches afterwords.

DOes it matter if all I can get is an SP1a CD ?


Thanks

What you would need is OEM media. Retail won't work for you unless you
mess around with the setupp.ini file on the CD.

http://www.thetechguide.com/howto/setuppini.html

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[Yves Leclerc]

Carey,

The OP was not talking about XP Media Centre edition. They have a plain
Recovery CD. They wanted to know if they could use a full version of XP Pro
install CD (bought or borrowed) and run the Recovery from it.

Y.