Upgraded to service pack 2 need to repair system can not use disk

Help! I upgraded to service pack 2 a little while back and it seems
something happened and deleted what looks like some of my windows registry
files around the end of the year. I have run into all kinds of problems
installing programs including getting any updates from Microsoft. Several
people have told me I should use my original Windows XP Home Edition boot
disk and I can repair the problem with that BUT it tells me I have a newer
version now and won't let me access the repair option! What do I do??????

Hi Sly, you'll need to slipstream your original WinXP CD with the SP2 patch

here are some slipstreaming links - Autostreamer is simple and easy but you
may require something more complex

Slipstreaming links

Autostreamer
http://www.wbeta.com/comments.php?shownews=1063&catid=2
http://www.autopatcher.com/autostreamer.html

Create a Slip Stream version of Windows XP
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/slipstream.htm

http://www.windows-help.net/WindowsX...p2-bootcd.html
Slipstreaming Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Create Bootable CD

http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=248
Creating a bootable Windows XP

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


freeware CD burning application
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/



Service Pack 2 (SP2
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en


"Sly" wrote:

> Help! I upgraded to service pack 2 a little while back and it seems
> something happened and deleted what looks like some of my windows registry
> files around the end of the year. I have run into all kinds of problems
> installing programs including getting any updates from Microsoft. Several
> people have told me I should use my original Windows XP Home Edition boot
> disk and I can repair the problem with that BUT it tells me I have a newer
> version now and won't let me access the repair option! What do I do??????

"Sly",

If you use the repair option, you will be rolling your machine back to at
least Windows XP SP1 and undoing any number of updates to your system.
There is another way. Let's address the problems you are having with
Windows Update. Can you try the Windows Update website one more time and
send us the log entries related to the (assumed) current failure? Here's
how:

On Windows XP:
1. Close all Internet browsers
2. Open a single Internet Explorer window.
3. In the Internet Explorer window, click Tools
4. Click Windows Update
5. When you reach the Windows Update site, click Custom Install
6. Click Review and Install Updates
7. When presented with multiple updates, uncheck all of them except for one
update (your choice)
8. Look down at the System clock and note the time. Let the minute move
forward one, so that there is no other activity associated with this
attempt.
9. Click Install. Wait for Windows Update to fail. If it succeeds, reply
back and let us know.
10. Assuming it failed, Click Start
11. Click Run
12. Type: %WINDIR%\WindowsUpdate.log
13. Press <Enter> or Click OK
14. When the log opens, scroll down to the hour and minute you memorized in
step 8.
15. Starting at the beginning of the first entry for that minute, click and
drag down and to the right selecting the rest of the log.
16. Click Edit, then Copy, or just press the <CTRL> and <C> keys.
17. Reply to this posting.
18. When that window opens, Tell us what update you attempted to install,
and where it failed from our observation.
19. After this, on a new line, state the following and press <Enter>: Log
entries follow:
20. Place the cursor on the line under the entry from step 19, and then
click Edit, then Paste, or just press the <CTRL> and <V> keys.
21. The log entries copied in steps 15-16 should have copied into your
posting.
22. Send it to us, and let us take a look at this failure.

Sincerely,

Pat Walters [MSFT]


"Sly" <> wrote in message
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> Help! I upgraded to service pack 2 a little while back and it seems
> something happened and deleted what looks like some of my windows registry
> files around the end of the year. I have run into all kinds of problems
> installing programs including getting any updates from Microsoft. Several
> people have told me I should use my original Windows XP Home Edition boot
> disk and I can repair the problem with that BUT it tells me I have a newer
> version now and won't let me access the repair option! What do I do??????