re: After XP repair installation, should I install SP2 first?
Monday, October 24, 2005 at 10:28 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE
(7132 messages posted)
You can do either.
In a nutshell, what slipstreaming does is integrate the files that have changed into
the \i386 folder contained on the CD. So let's say that folder on the original XP
CD had 2,000 files. And let's say that SP2 consists of changes to 1,500 of those
original 2,000, and say 250 new files. The slipstream process simply replaces the
old with the changed files, and adds the new.
So now you working copy of the XP CDROM is "packed" up to SP2. If you have to do
a repair reinstallation, if you do it with an SP2-level CD, then there is no need
to separately download and install SP2 as in independent step...all that work was
already done in the slipstream process.
Compare that to your situation (as I understand it), where the computer was packed
up to SP2, then the problem happened, then you repaired it with an SP1 (or maybe
no SP at all) CDROM, that sent you backwards, then you had to catch up by installing
SP2 again. Going back and forth like that with the thousands of files and registry
settings is just inviting an avoidable disaster.
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