It is possible to make your own windows XP SP3 install disk from scratch if you have a recovery partition in your harddrive and have a CD-DVD burner. Of course you still need to have a valid Key to install it. In fact I was able to use it to reinstall Windows XP PRO SP3 into a friends laptop. I am debating repeating the same process to create a windows XP home SP3 installer as my siblings have have between them 2 HP netbooks using XP home and one desktop with the same. And if the OS goes in one of them I do have an external DVD-RAM drive that I was given at an old job.
I used the below guide to create my own Windows XP-PRO SP3 installer using the recovery partition of my desktop system by sequentially slipstreaming the SP2 and SP3 installers into the folder I used to store the files needed create the installer image.
A good how to is available here:
http://www.howtohaven.com...-xp-service-pack-3.shtml
--Werehawk--
My mom's brief take on upcoming Guatemalan Elections "In last throes of preelection activities. Much loudspeaker vote pleading."
I used the below guide to create my own Windows XP-PRO SP3 installer using the recovery partition of my desktop system by sequentially slipstreaming the SP2 and SP3 installers into the folder I used to store the files needed create the installer image.
A good how to is available here:
http://www.howtohaven.com...-xp-service-pack-3.shtml
--Werehawk--
My mom's brief take on upcoming Guatemalan Elections "In last throes of preelection activities. Much loudspeaker vote pleading."