RE: Repair portion of installation from CD

July 9, 2007

RE: Repair portion of installation from CD

"assist" wrote:

> After a live update (thank you Microsoft) I restarted as instructed only to

> find Windows XP Pro crashed. I used Recovery console to repair sectors of HD

> corrupted and then since nothing else recommended in help and support worked

> the repair option of the installation process.

>

> The repair completed successfully and the system rebooted into Windows XP

> setup. Now my problem is that all updates including SP1 and SP2 were

> installed but my CD doesn't have either and setup is looking for "asms" file

> from SP1.

>

> I read about and could slipstream a CD but SP1 is no longer available so my

> question is:

>

> Should a slipstream with SP1A and then with SP2 and if I do will should I

> then use that CD to repair the install or just let setup find the files it

> needs on the new CD?

>

> Another matter for concern is that I have installed a fix for XP Pro that

> makes it so it will still auto executive java add-ins.

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