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two verisons of XP
Name: Twin1472 Date: February 22, 2008 at 05:26:49 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: AMD / 256mb Product: Dell
Comment:
here's the issue. i have service pak 1 on my c drive and service pak 2 on my f drive. what is the simply way to get rid of the version on my c drive and ger the service pack 2 off my f drive and on to my c drive. thanks in advance.
Name: IVO Date: February 22, 2008 at 05:44:13 Pacific
Reply:
What you post is not clear to me, but if you want to upgrade your XP SP1 on the C: drive to SP2 the simplest way is just to apply SP2 to the current XP SP1 and then patiently download all (~90) later fixes-updates.
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Response Number 2
Name: wanderer Date: February 22, 2008 at 07:36:40 Pacific
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I take it you have two installations and are asking how can you use the f: install to overwrite the c: install.
You can't due to registry entries that detail location. In other words you over write c: version with f: version the f: version will still think its on f: not c:. As such it can't find its brains when it loads.
Upgrade c: to sp2 and wipe out f:
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