Sp3 will not install unless at least sp1 is loaded. I suspect could goto sp2 direst with no problem.
Going to find out today. she picked up a nasty virus and now it will only let me log on in safemode, asks for a pw even though there is NONE and I have even run pw changer on it to verify account active and blank password. I must not be Irish :'( more fun then allowed fp At 06:32 PM 7/1/2008, Ben Ruset Poked the stick with: >Why not jump from pre-SP1 all the way to SP3? > >FORC5 wrote: >>Have a customer on her second system will not boot error. Recovery will not >>run from f10, have to make the recovery partition active and boots and >>restores are possible, >>I have no idea why she has crashed twice, drive checks OK ( wd800jb) but I >>figure replacing the drive is a good first step. She is a real estate sales >>person and is frantic. She has these ppl *your computer works* do work on it >>and I suspect they muffed it up somehow, they had windows defrag in scheduled >>tasks and I have seen defrag mess up a system if trying to work while it is >>fragging. >>Question, sorry about the long intro. >>There is no option in windows to create restore disks, is it possible to just >>burn the data from the restore partition and make it bootable ? Also is it >>possible to slipstream in updates ? restores to pre sp1 and is a real PITA. >>got it restored yesterday to sp1, going back this AM to do sp3 and try and >>get her laptop (vista) to network the printer again which has been a real >>pain. >>Thanks >>fp > >-- >Tallyho ! ]:8) >Taglines below ! >-- >Blond Mating Call: Oh, I'm so drunk [giggle].
