For those of you who do not have a restore CD, Unique Hardware has a guide that will show you how to make a Windows XP boot disk with the latest service pack installed.
Quote from the article:
“When you install Windows haven’t you found that the long list of updates from Windows Update can take longer to download and setup than the install itself? Did you know that installing a service pack on top of a regular install isn’t nearly as a clean as installing Windows with the service pack integrated? Not to mention you get the very outdated buggy MSJVM installed too! This guide will show you how you can accomplish the task of creating a Windows XP SP1a or SP2 install CD to give you a really clean and fast install of Windows…”
Read the full article here
