Slipstreaming with XP SP 3

I know most will be familiar with this process but I thought I would run through the slip-streaming process for XP SP3. Not that there have been any changes.

Essential requirements

Windows XP SP3 services pack
Windows XP installation disk or .iso
About 2.5 GB of free HDD space
Either Disk burning or .iso making software

at the end of this article there are links to all the necessary software, all but Windows XP that is. we do assume you have your copy of the OS. Remember also that SP 3 is beta so don't use it on your main system (XP offer a boot manager, this is to say you can install more than 1 version on your PC., you need to partition your drive though)

anyway here's the first step

Create the following file structure on you C:\ drive assuming C: is you main drive and place you sp3 files into the folder SP3

Copy your XP Installation CD to your Hard drive

Next, insert your Windows XP installation cd into your computer. Now copy the entire contents of the CD to your hard drive. In my example, i will save it to C:\XPsp3\XP

Extracting the SP3 files

a. Create a new folder for the extracted files, here we have created a folder called SP3, c:\XPsp3\SP3

b. Next thing we need to do is to extract the files to this new folder, c:\XPsp3\SP3.

you can if you want do this through the cmd line but I don't bother

-Go to Start Menu > Run

type C:\XPsp3\SP3\windowsxp-kb936929-sp3-x86-enu.exe -x

-Then at the Run box, hit OK

just change the path to your own if you have not followed this example. and you see the following

then

So now we have the extracted service pack in its own folder and the XP installation files all neatly and safely in their own folder now we need to combine them, so at the run command type

C:\XPsp3\SP3\i386\Update\Update.exe -S:C:\XPsp3\XP

here we are telling the update.exe file from the service pack to go to the XP folder and update you should see the following dialogue box

followed by this one

That's it you've done it, that was easy wasn't it, now we need to burn this back to a bootable cdrom

Using for creating bootable CD.

You can make your own bootable CDs using boot image files created by MagicISO. Most CD-recording programs have a boot from image option, which allows you to specify a boot image. To create a bootable CD, you need to make an image of a bootable disk, save it in bif format, and add it to the ISO files for making a bootable ISO file in MagicISO or any of the other packages which ever flavour you fancy . You should be able to do this from your original XP disk if not heres I made earlier

Boot img

XP SP3 files

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