Xp Corporate Pro With Sp 2 Question

[six]

the file i downloaded(xp corp pro w/ sp2) is legit but is it safe to install?
another question, is this version a full install or does it require me to have an os installed? (like windows 98)
and is this os self-bootable or does it need a boot disk?

i just built my box and i wanted to reformat
i have a windows 98 full version(bought it for $90+ but lost the boot disk)

if anyone know a site, hash, or advice please post
thanks!

[RPerry]

is that a regular windows 98 boot disk you need, or 98SE ?

[six]

second edition

[clocker]

the file i downloaded(xp corp pro w/ sp2) is legit but is it safe to install?

How in the world can we know?

another question, is this version a full install or does it require me to have an os installed? (like windows 98)

See above.

and is this os self-bootable or does it need a boot disk?

Ah, at last an answerable one.
It's easy to see if it's bootable...just put the disk in your CD-ROM and hit restart.
If it's a bootable disk, and if your machine is setup to boot from a CD, then it should start the install program .

For good instructions on the install ( with screenshots) go to www.blackviper.com.

[Triadcool]

Service pack 2 isnt even out yet for xp.

[six]

How in the world can we know?

simple, perhaps some of the users have downloaded it and installed it.
i read somethin about sp2 and how it locks up the computer, but im not so sure.

It's easy to see if it's bootable...just put the disk in your CD-ROM and hit restart.

i have a windows xp installed, would putting the cd to an HD with an OS be the same as to putting the cd to an HD with no OS?


thanks for the replies/link btw

[clocker]

Originally posted by six@6 September 2003 - 19:30

i have a windows xp installed, would putting the cd to an HD with an OS be the same as to putting the cd to an HD with no OS?


thanks for the replies/link btw

If your machine is set up to boot from a CD, and if the CD is bootable, the process begins before you even get to your already installed OS.

In other words, just to check if the CD is bootable it is irrelevant whether or not you have a OS installed.

There are lots of different versions of Windows on the network. Unless you post the exact name and filesize of your particular version, who's to know what you have?

BTW,
I thought it was either Corporate or Pro- not both.

And I think that Triadcool is right, there is no SP2 yet, is there?

[boyzeee]

to see if a cd is bootable open it with isobuster, it will say whether it is bootable or not. if its not go here to download a boot image for xp and re-burn ya copy with nero

[RPerry]

@ six


sorry it took me so long to come back to this thread, working on something else. I have a boot disk for windows 98SE, which I should be able to copy to my harddrive and get to you. let me know on how you want this done

[zapjb]

@clocker All corp are pro. Not all pro are corp.