On 2/25/2014 10:34 PM, Paul wrote:
Good Guy wrote:
There are valid reasons for making a slipstreamed version.
For example, if your original WinXP installer CD is very old,
there might be limitations on initial disk drive size, or
a limitation on a built-in driver. (Can be tricking adding
the OS as a dual boot, fitting it to a partition located
on the high end of the disk, and so on.)

Great idea if you plan on installing it on other machines. Although if
we are talking about just one machine, backup and recovery does even
better. As not only do you have the latest SP, but also all of the
latest security patches, installed applications, all necessarily
drivers, etc.

The sad thing about backup and recovery method, is it's hard to test to
see if the recovery actually works. What I like even better is cloning
drives for backing up. Thus after cloning, I use the cloned one and put
the original away for safe keeping.

I did slipstreaming for that reason on Win2K, and made myself
a Win2K SP4 CD so I would be ready for anything. It would accept
drives over 137GB, no problem.

I am surprised you didn't include the Unofficial SP5 for Windows 2000
too. That includes all patches that was released after SP4.

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Bill
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