The simplest way to create a Bootable Windows XP Pro or Home Installation CD Slipstreamed with SP2 is to use Autostreamer. You point to your XP Pro/Home CD, the SP2 Service Pack .exe file, give it a path to write the .iso file to and off it goes.

In 5 or 10 minutes you have a .iso file that you can burn to CD with almost any CD burner program you want to use. I used Roxio 7. There is a good freeware burner called DeepBurner which will do this also.

Here is the link to Autostreamer: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/Autostreamer.shtml

You can download the SP2 .exe here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=049C9DBE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en

An excellent alternative is nLite. It allows you to merge SP1/SP2/Windows Updates into a new XP CD image that you can install from. Takes a bit of fiddling with but worth the effort since it also allows you to pre-answer all the questions asked during install so all you have to do is boot the new CD, select where you want to install, format or not and go to lunch. When you come back the install is finished and your are at the latest Service Pack and Update level. See here:

http://www.nliteos.com/

Use this site to get the MS updates: http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/
You can also get updates from an MS site but it takes more work: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/saveupdates.htm

Written in response to: re: XP won't accept password for Recovery Console (Trevor Rymell: Thursday, August 30, 2007 at 10:48 pm) There are presently no replies to this message.

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