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More info?)
Harry Ohrn wrote:
> "Raymond J. Johnson Jr." <RayJ@nospam.net> wrote in message
> news:331hcmF3pn4slU2@individual.net...
>
>>Rick "Nutcase" Rogers wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Did you try it by booting the CD or from within the existing
>>>installation? You need to do it by booting the CD.
>>>
>>
>>No, he's trying to do a repair install of an SP2 installation with a
>>non-SP2 XP disk. The OP will need to slipstream SP2 into his XP install
>>disk. He should Google for Autostreamer or for slipstreaming in general.
>
>
> You can run a Repair Install on a SP2 patched system using an XP CD that is
> either the original 2600 or SP1. You do the repair by booting off the CD.
> The installer will search for a currently installed Windows setup and ask if
> you want to attempt a repair. The repair will essentially just remove SP2 so
> it must be reapplied again after the repair has been completed.
>
> I've tested this by doing a fresh install of Windows XP which had SP2 slip
> streamed into it. Next I installed several applications and created a few
> files to simulate a setup that had been running for awhile. Next I booted an
> original version of XP to do a repair install. The result was positive. SP2
> is removed but the files, apps, data and settings were retained. SP2 was
> then applied separately. I've done this several times to fix systems that
> have become unbootable after SP2 was applied and I had no other way to
> remove SP2.
>
Interesting. My experience has been the same as the OP's; the repair
install doesn't go, complaining that you're trying to update a newer
system. It's best that OP tries your way first.
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