I've just gone through 2 days of trying to get XP Sp2 running on my new computer. I built a new machine but kept the old hard drive so when I fired it up it required a re-install of XP. So I go through the hassles of loading and getting upgrades. When I go to upgrade to Sp2 it crashes on startup. I've decided to start from scratch since I don't have many apps to reinstall and the disk has accumulated a bunch of unused stuff over the years, time for a fresh start!
I want to use the slipstream version of Sp2 to minimize the updates. I found on the web how to build a CD to allow me to do this by building a copy of XP with Sp2 already incorporated. I'm thinking instead of going to the next step and potential problem of making a bootable CD can I just install a second disk from what I just built? All I would need to do then is install the target disk as a slave and run the install off the host.
Has anyone done this, will it work or is there some validation or registration issue that I'll run into?
I have a legal copy of XP I just want to avoid going through all the updates since the copy is original XP.
Thanks!
I want to use the slipstream version of Sp2 to minimize the updates. I found on the web how to build a CD to allow me to do this by building a copy of XP with Sp2 already incorporated. I'm thinking instead of going to the next step and potential problem of making a bootable CD can I just install a second disk from what I just built? All I would need to do then is install the target disk as a slave and run the install off the host.
Has anyone done this, will it work or is there some validation or registration issue that I'll run into?
I have a legal copy of XP I just want to avoid going through all the updates since the copy is original XP.
Thanks!
