Hi, Carey, it certainly is not a breeze. I have Sonic's "DLA" and "Record
Now" installed on my PC and unless I buy Nero it does not seem to work for
me.
Gerry

"Carey Frisch [MVP]

" wrote in message
...
All you need to do is make a slipstreamed version of your
current Windows XP.

Either one of the following utilities makes slipstreaming
(integrating) SP2 into Windows XP a breeze:

Windows Slipstreaming and Bootable CD Guide
http://www.msfn.org/articles.php?act...showarticle=49

or

AutoStreamer 1.0.33 (preferred)
http://www.wbeta.com/comments.php?shownews=1063&catid=2

Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Direct Download
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

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"Cuzman" wrote:

| I have a full retail version of XP Pro, and the CD is the SP1a version.
| I've had this on an 80GB drive for a couple of years, but now is the
| time to upgrade my hard drive.
|
| I'm going to be re-installing XP Pro onto my new 200GB drive, and I'll
| obviously be using my existing product code. My friend has an XP Pro
| SP2 CD, but will my product code work with this? It would make things a
| lot easier if I can install from that disc, instead of having to update
| my version from SP1a.