Integrated SP2: XP installation saves an hour

        Step 9: Extract the files in the service pack to the "SP2" folder: Click "Start Menu Run", then type "C:\\XPSP2\\SP2.EXE /U /X:C:\\XPSP2 in the Run box. \\SP2" this command. Click OK, SP2.exe will automatically extract the files in the service pack to the "SP2" folder.



Figure: The ninth step

Step 10: Update using the integrated tool to be integrated into the Windows XP SP2 installation disk. Click Start Run and enter the command "C:\\XPSP2\\SP2\\I386\\UPDATE\\UPDATE.EXE /S:C:\\XPSP2\\ROOT". Windows will open an "Updating Your Windows Share" dialog that will show you the progress of integrating SP2. When it completes the integration, SP2 is seamlessly integrated into the Windows XP installation files.

Figure: Step 10

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Most Windows XP installation CDs are bootable; this installation CD will be very useful if your Windows XP installation CD with SP2 is bootable. You can use it on any PC, even if the hard drive of that machine is not formatted at all. (Of course, this PC must be able to boot from the CD.)

Different CD burning tools have different ways to make a bootable CD. Since Roxio's CD burning tool is currently the most widely used CD burning software, I will use it as an example. However, many concepts can be applied to other burning tools, although the names of menu items and dialog boxes are different.

Step Eleven: In addition to the installation files that you created in step to the tenth step, you also need the activation code. A free copy of the CD boot code file can be downloaded from http://www.tacktech.com/pub/microsoft/bootfiles/bootfiles.zip
. It is a standard zip file; open this file and copy the compressed file named "boot.ima" into the "C:\\XPSP2\\BOOT" folder (this folder was created in the third step). ).

Step 12: Open your CD burning tool, in this case Roxio's CD Creator.

Step 13: Select “File New Project Bootable CD”. When the dialog box is opened, set the bootable disc type to "to No Emulation". Click the ">>Advance button", then set the Load Segment to: "0x000" and the Sector Count to "4". Now click Browse and you need to locate the image file containing the bootable image. Go to the "C:\\XPSP2\\BOOT" folder and select the "boot.ima" file you placed there in the eleventh step. Then click Open and OK.

Step 40: Click on "File Project Properties". This will open a dialog with several tabs with lots of options and suboptions. You use this dialog to match the new Windows XP installation CD with the features of the original Windows XP installation disc. For example, if the original Windows XP installation CD has not been modified and is a retail and fully installed version, then its volume label is likely to be: "WXPFPP_EN". So that's what you want to type in the label section of the dialog. You can simply use Windows Explorer to view the volume label of the original Windows XP installation CD, or you can also use this http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=342
Find the volume label in the comprehensive list.

Similarly, the other features in this dialog are the same as the original Windows XP installation CD.

File System = JolIEt

Physical format of CD = Mode 1: CDROM

Click on "Advanced" and enter the following

Publisher Name = MICROSOFT_CORPORATION

Prepared By = MICROSOFT_CORPORATION

Most of the other settings do not need to be modified, but need to be confirmed:

Selected: "Use original file date"

Checked: "All Files" under the "File Filter" tab

Not selected: "Do not add System files" and "Do not add Hidden files"

When you complete all After the operation, click OK.

Step 15: You are almost ready to burn. In the thirteenth step you have added the boot image to your project; now select and add all the files and folders in the "C:\\XPSP2\\ROOT" folder to this project. Then click Burn to Disc.

Step 16: The final dialog opens, providing some final options. If they have not been selected, select "Record CD" under "Record Options" and "Disc-at-Once" under "Record Methods" and click OK. Now you are done.

should be noted that, burning software might complain that too many file number mezzanine, do not ignore it, this warning has no useful role.