Win XP Pro Slipstream

sdfuk · 20 Jan 2010 at 16:15

Hi

I've got Win 7 up and running but want to add Win xp to the virtual machine.

I have a win xp pro + SP1 disc. Do I need to slipstream SP 2 to this disk and the slipstream SP3 to to the slipstreamed Win xp pro + SP1 and 2 disc. Hope that makes sense.

I've read that you can skip SP2 if you have SP1a but mine only says "SP1".

Thanks for any help
Cheers
S

robinbredin · 20 Jan 2010 at 16:27

Hi, When I setup my Win 7 with XP mode, I had to download XP from the microsoft web site HERE.

sdfuk · 20 Jan 2010 at 16:37

Hi

I've tried that but but it didn't work for me. I've ran the prog that chacks that the pc is compatible to virtualisation and mine was ok.

I downloaded Virtual PC 2007 and basically I need to tell this where my xp installation is (as a .ISO) but I want to slipstream the updates first.

I give it a go and see what happens

theheyes · 20 Jan 2010 at 17:17

If you have a Windows XP SP1 disc then you can slipstream SP3 in fine, you can skip SP2.

Slightly off topic, but it's worthing knowing that this is not the case with Vista; you need to install all service packs consecutively.

Sp00n · 20 Jan 2010 at 17:18

When you say "it didn't work for me", what exactly didn't work?