Upgraded to SP2 - Cannot install Recovery Console

[Steve N.]

My WinXP Pro OEM SP2 system will not install Recovery Console. The error
reports that the installed version of Windows is newer than what I'm
installing from. This occurs using a slipstreamed SP2 CD, the i386
directory I copied from the SS CD, or the original SP1 CD. The SS CD
boots fine and I can get to RC from that.

Before attmepting to install RC I changed the setup directory registry
entry to C:\ after I copied i386 directory to the C: drive as a test.

Steve

[Richard Urban]

You can install the recovery console with a Version of Windows XP that has
been slipstreamed with SP2.


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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!


"Steve N." > wrote in message
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> My WinXP Pro OEM SP2 system will not install Recovery Console. The error
> reports that the installed version of Windows is newer than what I'm
> installing from. This occurs using a slipstreamed SP2 CD, the i386
> directory I copied from the SS CD, or the original SP1 CD. The SS CD boots
> fine and I can get to RC from that.
>
> Before attmepting to install RC I changed the setup directory registry
> entry to C:\ after I copied i386 directory to the C: drive as a test.
>
> Steve
>

[Steve N.]

Richard Urban wrote:

> You can install the recovery console with a Version of Windows XP
> that has been slipstreamed with SP2.
>
>

As I said, I did use a slipstreamed SP2 CD, you must've missed that,
perhaps due to my poor writing. It didn't work. It said the installed
version of Windwos is newer than what I'm trying to install from. I then
tried it from the i386 folder copied from the SS CD. Same deal. I then
tried from the original SP1 CD for grins, same deal.

The slipstreamed CD boots fine and I can get to RC from that but cannot
install RC to the system from any source I have available.

Steve

> My WinXP Pro OEM SP2 system will not install Recovery Console. The
> error reports that the installed version of Windows is newer than
> what I'm installing from. This occurs using a slipstreamed SP2 CD,
> the i386 directory I copied from the SS CD, or the original SP1 CD.
> The SS CD boots fine and I can get to RC from that.
>
> Before attmepting to install RC I changed the setup directory
> registry entry to C:\ after I copied i386 directory to the C: drive
> as a test.
>
> Steve

[Steve N.]

Richard Urban wrote:

> I have installed it on numerous computers without incident. You didn't
> slipstream the SP correctly.
>

I used AutoStreamer and then burned the resulting ISO to CD. Both
reported success. I will try slipstreaming another CD again, perhaps
using another method.

Steve

[Steve N.]

Richard Urban wrote:

> BTW, I used a slipstreamed RETAIL version of Windows XP Professional.
>

Mine is OEM but that should still work, shouldn't it?

Steve

[Richard Urban]

Maybe not! The OEM CD can have information added or missing - as compared to
the Retail version!

I used AutoStreamer also. Worked great. (-:

--
Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!


"Steve N." > wrote in message
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> Richard Urban wrote:
>
>> BTW, I used a slipstreamed RETAIL version of Windows XP Professional.
>>
>
> Mine is OEM but that should still work, shouldn't it?
>
> Steve
>