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Install XP on new hard drive -- have to load all updates?


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Posted

Do I have to install a zillion updates if I install XP on a new hard

drive?

 

The old hard drive died. I have a new 250gb drive installed with

nothing on it. When I use my 5 year-old XP CD to load XP on this

"virgin" c:\ drive, am I going to have to spend hours downloading and

loading update after update, or is there some way to get one recent

mega-update that will save me several evenings of work?

 

Thanks for any help.

 

Mel

Posted

"Mel" <mricflo@dr.com> wrote in message

news:1184804687.579639.134660@e16g2000pri.googlegroups.com...

> Do I have to install a zillion updates if I install XP on a new hard

> drive?

>

> The old hard drive died. I have a new 250gb drive installed with

> nothing on it. When I use my 5 year-old XP CD to load XP on this

> "virgin" c:\ drive, am I going to have to spend hours downloading and

> loading update after update, or is there some way to get one recent

> mega-update that will save me several evenings of work?

>

> Thanks for any help.

>

> Mel

>

If your XP CD doesn't have SP2 integrated into it, you will have to

download and install SP2. Microsoft no longer supports pre SP2

versions of XP. Following that there will be about 90 updates

to install.

Guest PA Bear
Posted

Not a zillion, no, but you'll need to install WinXP SP2 and then about 80 or

so post-SP2 updates.

 

Sorry, no "mega-update" until SP3 is released (and it's not even in beta

yet).

--

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)

MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)

AumHa VSOP & Admin DTS-L.org

 

 

Mel wrote:

> Do I have to install a zillion updates if I install XP on a new hard

> drive?

>

> The old hard drive died. I have a new 250gb drive installed with

> nothing on it. When I use my 5 year-old XP CD to load XP on this

> "virgin" c:\ drive, am I going to have to spend hours downloading and

> loading update after update, or is there some way to get one recent

> mega-update that will save me several evenings of work?

>

> Thanks for any help.

>

> Mel

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