Install XP on new hard drive -- have to load all updates?

[Mel]

Do I have to install a zillion updates if I install XP on a new hard
drive?

The old hard drive died. I have a new 250gb drive installed with
nothing on it. When I use my 5 year-old XP CD to load XP on this
"virgin" c:\ drive, am I going to have to spend hours downloading and
loading update after update, or is there some way to get one recent
mega-update that will save me several evenings of work?

Thanks for any help.

Mel

 

[John]

"Mel" <mricflo@dr.com> wrote in message
news:1184804687.579639.134660@e16g2000pri.googlegroups.com...
> Do I have to install a zillion updates if I install XP on a new hard
> drive?
>
> The old hard drive died. I have a new 250gb drive installed with
> nothing on it. When I use my 5 year-old XP CD to load XP on this
> "virgin" c:\ drive, am I going to have to spend hours downloading and
> loading update after update, or is there some way to get one recent
> mega-update that will save me several evenings of work?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Mel
>
If your XP CD doesn't have SP2 integrated into it, you will have to
download and install SP2. Microsoft no longer supports pre SP2
versions of XP. Following that there will be about 90 updates
to install.

 

[PA Bear]

Not a zillion, no, but you'll need to install WinXP SP2 and then about 80 or
so post-SP2 updates.

Sorry, no "mega-update" until SP3 is released (and it's not even in beta
yet).
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org


Mel wrote:
> Do I have to install a zillion updates if I install XP on a new hard
> drive?
>
> The old hard drive died. I have a new 250gb drive installed with
> nothing on it. When I use my 5 year-old XP CD to load XP on this
> "virgin" c:\ drive, am I going to have to spend hours downloading and
> loading update after update, or is there some way to get one recent
> mega-update that will save me several evenings of work?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Mel