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From: Adam Skeaping on 10 May 2010 13:26 I have a Sony Vaio laptop for which I've lost the original XP Home OS installation disc, but windows will no longer boot and needs repair as from an installation CD. I've tried a Linux-based UBCD, but it refuses to boot. I have on a backup drive just the i386 folder from the Vaio's original pre-Service Pack Windows folder, so I made a Windows installation boot CD with SP3 slipstreamed on to it. This booted OK but then asked me to insert the disk labeled Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 1 CD into Drive A:, so I made a new boot cd with the addition of the files WIN51, WIN51IP, WIN51IP.SP1, WIN51IP.SP2, but I still get the same request. Any idea why, or what I might try next to get rid of this barrier to repairing XP Home? Presumably I can't repair this installation with a recent XP Pro installation disk that I've already used to licence XP on my desktop computer. If there's no solution directly to my problem, if I temporarily installed the above XP Pro on another partition of the disk, could I boot to that and repair the 'proper' XP Home partition by running the installation program from the XP Home slipstreamed i386 folder and telling it to repair the problem partition? (It goes without saying that I'd delete the temporary installation of Pro once I had the Home partition fixed.)
From: Peter Foldes on 10 May 2010 17:43 Hint. SP3 needs SP1 to be already installed. You cannot go directly to SP3 you will need SP1 beforehand -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. http://www.microsoft.com/protect "Adam Skeaping" <adamskeaping(a)NOTCOLDmail.com> wrote in message news:F66C1BC1-4A01-49E3-B61D-2262D4466E15(a)microsoft.com... >I have a Sony Vaio laptop for which I've lost the original XP Home OS > installation disc, but windows will no longer boot and needs repair as from > an installation CD. I've tried a Linux-based UBCD, but it refuses to boot. > > I have on a backup drive just the i386 folder from the Vaio's original > pre-Service Pack Windows folder, so I made a Windows installation boot CD > with SP3 slipstreamed on to it. This booted OK but then asked me to insert > the disk labeled Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 1 CD into Drive A:, so > I made a new boot cd with the addition of the files WIN51, WIN51IP, > WIN51IP.SP1, WIN51IP.SP2, but I still get the same request. Any idea why, or > what I might try next to get rid of this barrier to repairing XP Home? > > Presumably I can't repair this installation with a recent XP Pro > installation disk that I've already used to licence XP on my desktop computer. > > If there's no solution directly to my problem, if I temporarily installed > the above XP Pro on another partition of the disk, could I boot to that and > repair the 'proper' XP Home partition by running the installation program > from the XP Home slipstreamed i386 folder and telling it to repair the > problem partition? > (It goes without saying that I'd delete the temporary installation of Pro > once I had the Home partition fixed.)
From: Stefan Kanthak on 11 May 2010 11:26 "Peter Foldes" <maci252211(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Hint. SP3 needs SP1 to be already installed. You cannot go directly to SP3 you will > need SP1 beforehand Wrong! READ AGAIN! Carefully! He slipstreamed SP3, which has NO preconditions! BTW: The tagfiles which have to be present in the root directory are WIN51, WIN51IC and WIN51IC.SP3. A WIN51IC.SP1 or WIN51IC.SP2 in the root directory just indicates that SP1 or SP2 had been slipstreamed before, which is but not necessary. The message "Insert *** SP1 CD" is most probabyle due to a wrong \i386\TXTSETUP.SIF and/or \i386\LAYOUT.INF Stefan
From: Peter Foldes on 11 May 2010 13:02 LOL. And all this from someone still using OE 5. You cannot slipstream SP3 to a bare bone XP. It will not work. You need to have at least SP1 installed before slipstreaming SP3 -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. http://www.microsoft.com/protect "Stefan Kanthak" <postmaster@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message news:uILWd5R8KHA.3540(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > "Peter Foldes" <maci252211(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> Hint. SP3 needs SP1 to be already installed. You cannot go directly to SP3 you >> will >> need SP1 beforehand > > Wrong! READ AGAIN! Carefully! > He slipstreamed SP3, which has NO preconditions! > > BTW: The tagfiles which have to be present in the root directory > are WIN51, WIN51IC and WIN51IC.SP3. > A WIN51IC.SP1 or WIN51IC.SP2 in the root directory just indicates > that SP1 or SP2 had been slipstreamed before, which is but not > necessary. > > The message "Insert *** SP1 CD" is most probabyle due to a wrong > \i386\TXTSETUP.SIF and/or \i386\LAYOUT.INF > > Stefan >
From: Stefan Kanthak on 11 May 2010 16:43
"Peter Foldes" <maci252211(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > LOL. And all this from someone still using OE 5. See MS10-030: it is SUPPORTED! > You cannot slipstream SP3 to a bare bone XP. It will not work. I can. Of course it works. STOP SPREADING FUD! > You need to have at least SP1 installed before slipstreaming SP3 Wrong! GET YOURSELF A CLUE! Stefan |