Slipstreaming XP with ALL patches?
 

Just had to rebuild my PC at home as I had a hard drive problem. As I have an original XP Pro disk I then had to load on SP3 plus wads of updates. Now, as much as I'd like to say I'll never have to do this again as my next box will be an Ivy Bridge based W7 machine, there's always the chance I'll have to. I've found several articles which tell me how to 'slipstream' SP3 onto one disk with XP, so cutting down the amount of time needed to re-load. However, what I'd like is to 'slipstream' as many of the post-SP3 patches onto the Cd (probably a DVD though ...?!) as possible.

So, two questions:

1) can this be done? If so a poiinter to the instructions would be appreciated
2) I'd also like to add the SATA drivers to the mix so I didn't have to fit F? and load them from floppy.

Any and all information appreciated.

Dave

Hi Dave have look on this

http://www.winsupersite.com/article/...k-3-sp3-128464

http://smithii.com/slipstream_xpsp3

and this

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/c...-iso-file/1848

Jura

Thanks for the links but I can slipstream sp3 onto XP. I wanted to also add the patches since sp3. The second link shows how it could be done but it means doing each patch individually. Seems Microsoft release an iso for each months patches, but I was hoping they'd have a 'cumulative' iso/exe of them all. Wishful thinking I suppose.

Still, I can slipstream SP3 onto a CD plus I can now add the sata driver so this'll speed the process up a lot.

Just formatting a new 1TB disk - 2 1/4 hours to get to 88% ...... :eek: Glad I didn't order the 3TB version ....

Dave

Slipstream sp3 and then use autopatcher for the rest?

Whilst the install is still fresh and 'clean'. How about doing a full OS backup image?

That way you get all the patches and any essential software (office, firefox, acrobat etc). Will need quite a few disks though, or better still dump on a NAS.

Quickest and convenient way would be to build your system, install SP3 and all the post SP3 updates, install any other applications etc. Once done, image the disk using a utility like Ghost. This will create an image file that you can then re-Ghost or dump the image you created to any drives in the future.

If you plan to install this image on to another PC with slightly different hardware, you can SysPrep the PC before creating the image. What this will to is create a mini setup so that after you dump an image on to a new pc it will setup and install all the standard pnp drivers.

Once you've created an image, you can use this image to reload your PC with all the apps and hotfixes in under an hour.

Remember doin a fresh install doesnt take long at all, what does is resetting up all your applications and settings.

So +2 for imaging, saves so much time, plus all your personal preferences for apps/win updates etc etc are all there. I dump my image onto another internal HDD and external HDD for safety.

I use win7's built in imager, works fine using a recovery CD.

www.ninite.com

may be of use:)

Actually with XP it does .... First there's the original XP disk, then the SP3 CD then ALL the updates since! Plus I have office 2010.

But I've taken the 'imaging' advice to heart, especially as I'd been thinking along those lines anyway, and used 'Keriver 1-Click Restore' ... http://www.keriver.com/ ... to backup my system disk when most things had been installed.

Seems like the 'hard drive' problem wasn't terminal, and could well have been some SW issue, maybe even some virus/malware. What didn't help was that there was some 'boot confusion' with the two disks that were in my PC. I have a 'small' disk for the OS and apps and a larger disk for data. Sometime in the dim and distant past, for reasons that escape me, my system disk was labelled as the 'D'' drive and second disk as the 'C' drive. No problems before but when I pulled the plug on the second drive the PC wouldn't boot; 'no boot device' found. Hmmmm. Must have been something to do with re-installing the last time with this second disk still plugged in and the installation CD getting a little 'confused' ...

Anyhow, I needed a new, larger, second disk and a nice 1TB Samsung is now all present and correct. The old second disk is used in my external drive (as the 'backup' drive :eek: :eek: But I'm pretty sure it's fine and it was a SW, not HW, problem now) and the 'old' external drive is in the PC formatted as FAT32 so I can backup the wife's Macbook more easily. And Microsoft's SyncToy is doing the honours of backing things up. So life settles down once more ......

Bleddy PCs are a pain in the b^tt!

Ta for all the advice.

Dave