re: After XP repair installation, should I install SP2 first?
Monday, October 24, 2005 at 11:00 am
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Posted by ZoneIII
(342 messages posted)
Can I make a Repair Installation with the disk that the slipstream program makes?
In other words, I do not want to do a total reinstallation where I lose everything.
One more thing.... I have now run a Repair Installation three times. Each time,
I get an error message (0X8007007F) that says I am missing a file. It is failing
to load the library C:\Windows\system32\catsrv.dll. (I wonder if the "sr" stands
for System Restore because that is not working). Anyway, instructions are to
clean the disk which I have done. No luck. Tried installing on different drive.
Still no luck. That is a problem I will have to deal with separately later but
my question is whether this would cause a problem when creating the disk with the
slipstream program.
I really appreciate your help and I apolgize for my ignorance.
On Monday, October 24, 2005 at 10:28 am, Dan Sarandrea, MCSE wrote:
>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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