All slipstreamed discs fail

[MALDATA]

I have a retail XP Pro cd from about 2002... service pack 0. I upgraded my drives to SATA, and I want to reinstall windows. The SP0 cd won't install onto SATA drives, so I'm trying to slipstream an SP2 disc (I've tried loading the chipset drivers in the SP0 installer via floppy disk, but it still won't work).

I've tried to slipstream an SP2 disc using nLite, the XPSP2.exe program itself, and another program (it was a while ago, I don't remember the name of it) several times, but all the discs I make fail. The installer sometimes crashes, sometimes it starts and says a bunch of files are corrupt, etc. Additionally, for some reason, the CD drive stutters a lot when it's running. None of these problems happen with the SP0 cd, so the original CD is fine.

nLite is so simple... I don't know how I could possibly be screwing it up. Does anyone else have this problem? Is there something I should try? Is there more information you need? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[anonymous_user]

The file you need is WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe not XPSP2.exe

[MALDATA]

I read something that said that the two are the same thing. It's called xpsp2.exe on the CD and the longer name when downloaded. I have tried both.

Thanks

Edited April 28, 2008 by MALDATA

[Ponch]

The installer sometimes crashes, sometimes it starts and says a bunch of files are corrupt, etc. Additionally, for some reason, the CD drive stutters a lot when it's running.

At what point ?

Can you check the CD with CDCheck or equivalent ?

Is your service pack the same language as your XP ? (but I think here you'd get a message before preoceeding)

[MALDATA]

Well, as the installer is loading, slipstreamed discs don't load smoothly but the original disc does. So it loads each module (Kernel debugger, etc.) right at the beginning of the process, and during that phase the slipstreamed discs seem to spin up, then stop abruptly, then spin up again. This takes 2 or three times longer than the original disc.

It usually makes it through the formatting ok. When it copies files, it sometimes claims it can't read them... it choked on 4 or 5 files last time. Some of them were just fonts, but others I could not skip. Once it almost made it to the end, then said something about a corrupt hive.

I have not tried checking the CD with CDcheck, but I will do so. This is a problem I have had on several slipstreamed CDs using several different methods, so I don't know how every CD could be bad. I'll check anyway.

The service pack and the original disc are both the same language.

It seems that many people are able to do this without incident. nLite is pretty foolproof, so I must be doing something wrong...

Thanks for your input!

[mooms]

Sounds like a bad burn (caused by a bad drive or bad medias ).

An advice: try your iso in a virtual machine like virtual box, you don't need to waste a cdr to sicover that something will go wrong.

[johnhc]

MALDATA,

I have seen several posts about slowing down the burn speed to prevent disc errors. Have you tried burning at 2x?

Good luck.

John

[MALDATA]

Well, I checked the disc with CDcheck and it's ok. I also tried making it on a different computer/burner/media. No change.

I burn discs all the time and they never have problems. This really is just a problem with my slipstreaming.

Any other ideas? Thanks guys.