Sp1 Re-installation

[manker]

Originally posted by Robert00000@7 July 2004 - 23:23
To repair XP put the disk in and choose to upgrade.

It will repair windows keeping all the apps in place but will get rid of SP1.

thats basically what I wanted to know, I can install SP1 at a later time once windows is repaired.

thanks a lot robert

[Robert00000]

Originally posted by manker+7 July 2004 - 23:29--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (manker @ 7 July 2004 - 23:29)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Robert00000@7 July 2004 - 23:23
To repair XP put the disk in and choose to upgrade.

It will repair windows keeping all the apps in place but will get rid of SP1.

thats basically what I wanted to know, I can install SP1 at a later time once windows is repaired.

thanks a lot robert [/b][/quote]
No problem.

[firefox]

Originally posted by manker@7 July 2004 - 11:34


OK, another question: if I download a copy of XP-pro with SP1 integrated would I be able to do a repair install over the top of my current (damaged) XP-pro? would that fix it?

If you get a hold of the windows xp pro with sp1 on it, and do an upgrade it should work fine. I have done some like these and it worked.

[tesco]

Originally posted by Robert00000@7 July 2004 - 18:16
To repair XP put the disk in and choose to upgrade.

It will repair windows keeping all the apps in place but will get rid of SP1.

with mine u run setup then eventually it sayd there is already an OS on this partition (after u choose the partition u want to repair) then it asks if u want to repair it and u say yes...
nothing about upgrading.

[keyser_soze]

Yeah I don&#39;t think u can upgrade in this mode just remove,install or repair, when you have these sort of probs its just as easy reinstalling with a sp1 integrated copy, some early pirate xp copies need a crack to install the sp1 pack.

[manker]

Well, it worked just fine, I decided to download a copy of XP-pro with SP1 integrated and installed it from within windows.

I burnt it, popped in the disk, chose the upgrade option and it installed without any drama, thanks again to anyone that helped