re: Cannot perform repair install, slipstreamed SP3 Pro OEM - existing install not found
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Steve B
(1909 messages posted)
I think SP3 can be slipstreamed onto XP without service packs. I have done it several
times. It's only when you try installing SP3 on a running XP that you need SP1 or
SP2 installed first.
I don't know what the problem is. I'm not familiar with the OEM installs that come
from the computer manufacturers like Dell and HP. Like others have said it isn't
always possible to do a repair install, but I don't know if that explains your symptoms.
On Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 3:12 am, Harry Bellemare wrote:
>This is odd. I can use the Recovery Console to run commands all I want, but when
>I try to start a repair-install à la Fred Langa (see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1664082/posts
>for more info), screen 7 & 8 just don't show up. Neither does the license, in fact,
>although I've already read it, so I don't care as much about that.
>
>Instead of the existing installation, I get a list of partitions on which to install
>XP. Selecting my current Windows partition brings up a screen where Setup asks me
>if I want to change the name of the Windows folder for the new installation, since
>\WINDOWS already exists, but I don't want to do that; and according to Setup, installing
>in the same folder will get rid of users, application associations, etc., which
I
>definitely don't want.
>
>I checked for a winnt.sif file, just in case that was what was interfering, but
it
>wasn't there. Could another file be passing arguments to the Setup program to prevent
>both the repair-install option and the license from showing up? Alternatively, is
>there a way to force these screens to appear (by specifying it in a file of some
>sort)?
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