How to update a Windowx XP Pro CD?

I am going to need to reinstall Windows XP in my PC soon, and I don't want to
have to redownload all the updates I have downloaded from Windows Update in
the last year.

Is there a method to update an Installation CD? Even better, is there a way
to fetch the already installed updates and save them into a "patched"
installation CD?

Thank you very much.

I am not familar with any method that will upgrade your cd or allow you to
save previously downloaded updates then sucessfully integrate them in the new
install. We do use a procedure with volume licensing to image the install
program and updates to a single disk and then make multiple copies it
perform disk deployment on multiple computers in networks, but this would NOT
be beneficial to you as it would take longer to perform this than just going
ahead and redownloading the updates again.
On the plus side some updates supercede prior ones and in a fresh install
the older ones will not be offered so you may not have to reinstall every
update you received in the past year.
Charlie


"Federico Cáceres" wrote:

> I am going to need to reinstall Windows XP in my PC soon, and I don't want to
> have to redownload all the updates I have downloaded from Windows Update in
> the last year.
>
> Is there a method to update an Installation CD? Even better, is there a way
> to fetch the already installed updates and save them into a "patched"
> installation CD?
>
> Thank you very much.

Do a web search for slipstreaming Windows XP. There's even an article on the
Microsoft knowledgebase about this.

Note that the current versions of Roxio no longer work (they can't write a
mult-sector boot), so you'll need Nero to create the new cd-rom.

Although I haven't done this myself, I've read that you can add drivers and
edit a file list to include newers drivers, such as a raid driver that would
otherwise require using a floppy.

Yes, I am familiar with the slipstreaming method, and I already patched a Win
XP install CD with a SP2 CD, and it worked perfectly.

What I need to know is if there's a way to use the windows upgrades I
already installed on my computer. I mean, are upgrade installers saved
somewhere on the computer? So that at least I can use them to slipstream my
XP SP 2 CD?

I already tried a slipstreaming method with the files located in the NTFS
compressed directories on C:\Windows\ called "$NtUninstallKB#####", but I
wasn't successful at all, a weird error message appeared, telling me that
this function is not implemented or something like that. I'll try to
reproduce the message and post it here.

Tank you very much

"jeffareid" wrote:

> Do a web search for slipstreaming Windows XP. There's even an article on the
> Microsoft knowledgebase about this.
>
> Note that the current versions of Roxio no longer work (they can't write a
> mult-sector boot), so you'll need Nero to create the new cd-rom.
>
> Although I haven't done this myself, I've read that you can add drivers and
> edit a file list to include newers drivers, such as a raid driver that would
> otherwise require using a floppy.
>