A sorta related question -- I want to set up a dedicated machine in my
shop to run my CNC machine, I can bodge one up using some old stuff I
have around. The control software I use runs on XP. I have XP on a
disk. I vaguely recall in various reinstalls that XP wants to connect
to the network to get verified and install updates and make it so it is
not being used twice and all that stuff. Is there an easy way to just
load it and make it work without doing all that? Or make an SP2 XP disk
to load up and forget all the other stuff it wants to do? I seem to
recall that might be doable, but I forget how to do it.
I suppose I could just make a backup image of my boot hard drive on
another one to put into that machine?
--R
Loren Faeth wrote:
Sounds like typical MS. I don't have a solution to this problem In
the Retrospect when you are making the disaster recovery cd, will it
take your product key?
if not, then this is time consuming, but the only shot I can think of:
in the "install programs control panel:
Remove SP3
Restart twice with full shutdown (this clears the removed files)
Now you will have xp SP2 ( I am not sure if this breaks any other
patches)
Try the retrospect using the WinXP key you have
You may have to make an additional backup of the current state first,
before making the disaster recovery CD
At 11:47 AM 5/19/2009, you wrote:
I set up an external HD and loaded a Retrospect backup set of this
computers HD on it. When I tried to make a "disaster recovery" CD
using Retrospects program it said I needed the WinXP product key.
When I loaded the WinXP disk in order to be sure the product key
worked, WinXP refused to go beyond the first couple of screens
because it said that the version on the computer was a later version
than that on the WinXP disc. The WinXP disc is Service Pack 2, and
since I initially used this disc to load WinXP, Microsoft has added
WinXP Service Pack 3 to the computer via their periodic updates.
I can probably check the Product Key by letting the WinXP Service
Pack 2 boot the computer just like I was going to replace the WinXP
service pack 3 program with the WinXP service pack 2 program on the
disk, but if the WinXP service pack 3 program loaded on the computer
rejects the Product Key from the WinXP service pack 2 which will be
in Retrospects Disaster Recovery CD, I've lost a lot of data.
Simple, isn't it? (o:] It's enough to make me buy a MacIntosh and
load Linux on it which I might do after I get the data on this old PC
secured.
Thanks,
Gerry
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