Where can I get updated
Windows XP boot disks?
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XP doesn't ship with boot disks, and you can't create these
disks from the XP media. However, Microsoft provides downloads
to create XP boot disks. As Microsoft continues to release
service packs, the company will continue to update the downloadable
boot disks, starting with new boot disks available for XP
Service Pack 1 (SP1). You must download the correct set of
boot disks for your version of XP (i.e., you can't use an
XP Home Edition boot disk with an XP Professional Edition
CD-ROM). XP Home SP1 boot disks are available here,
and XP Professional SP1 boot disks are available here.
Why does the Windows
2000 service pack installation stop when it
encounters a small System partition?
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The service pack installation process estimates the amount
of disk space required to apply the updated files and adds
30MB for safety. If the amount of free space on the partition
doesn't meet this minimum requirement, the installation
will fail. Systems administrators often configure a very
small System partition (the partition that contains the
ntldr and ntdetec.com files). If this partition has less
than 30MB free after the installer determines the amount
of space required, the service pack installation will fail,
even though the installation requires only about 300KB.
To work around this limitation, you can manually update
the files (i.e., ntldr and ntdetect.com) on the System partition
that the service pack updates by extracting the service
pack (type "w2kspx.exe -x" without the quotes) and manually
copy the files onto the System partition. When the service
pack installation process runs and sees that the System
partition is up-to-date, it won't require any additional
free space on that partition and will let the installation
continue.
