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Service pack issue

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Nagash

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I have just deleted all my partitions and remade one ntfs drive, I then continued to install windows xp professional on this drive, after formating the drive I am asked to insert the Windows xp professional service pack 1 CD, but I have no idea what I have done with the one I had, and from what i found on microsoft.com.. it is no longer available for download. Is there some way of skipping past this? or some way of allowing me to actually install xp?

I hope someone can help
thankyou.
 
Hi,

Did you format your drive first? What disc are you using to install XP from i.e. what does it say on it? Was it provided with your PC? FYI, you can still download XP SP1 from Microsoft (here).

 
what I did was, make the the boot disks using 6 floppies, I then reset the computer with the first disk in the drive, i went through all 6 then it showed my partitions so i deleted them all and made one big one as a nstf drive, it then continued to format the entire partition, then after that i told it to install windows xp and it came up with the service pack thing.

My computer came with nothing, cause my dad got it from his bussiness, he then gave me xp.

as for that link, do i download the 125 mb file and burn it to CD then insert it into the other computer?
 
When you reach that prompt, just give it your WinXP CD. Presumably SP1 is already integrated into it. I think the prompt is not asking for just SP1 by itself, but the whole "WinXP With Service Pack1 Already Inside It" CD.
 
Try a straight WinXP installation from the WinXP CD itself, no floppy nonsense. If your CD is, uh, not a bootable WinXP CD, then you need to buy one, they're about $145 (which includes the cost of a WinXP license).
 
Just one point...why are you creating the boot floppies? Just go into the BIOS and set the boot order to boot directly from the XP CD and install from there.

The XP SP1 link I posted must be installed AFTER you have installed WinXP. As mechBgon said, it sounds like you have a slipstreamed (i.e. WinXP & SP1 included) disc. Try to format the drive again and this time boot directly from the CD.

Hope you get it sorted, report back soon 😕
 
Originally posted by: mechBgon
Try a straight WinXP installation from the WinXP CD itself, no floppy nonsense. If your CD is, uh, not a bootable WinXP CD, then you need to buy one, they're about $145 (which includes the cost of a WinXP license).
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Beat me too it! Damn, I need a morning cup of coffee..
 
well when i go into bios, my only options are change password, save settings and exit, or exit without saving ?!?

I press F11 to go to the boot options, and choose CDROM, but it doesnt boot from the cd
 
Originally posted by: Nagash
well when i go into bios, my only options are change password, save settings and exit, or exit without saving ?!?
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You don't get any other settings/options to change?? That's strange!

Have you tried just putting the XP disc in the drive and rebooting the PC?

Is it a legit CD?
 
think my cd drive doesnt boot from the cd, um im not sure if it is legit... it doesnt look like what i would think the xp cd would look like
 
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