I'm giving my old Dell to my mom and in the process I bought a larger hard drive for it. I have a copy of an OEM version of Windows XP home edition- the trouble is the disc is about 5 years old and lacks SP 2. (Note I have a new hard drive and reinstalled the windows).
I'm using dial-up. When I choose "custom" install I get the prompt to download Service Pack 2. I select download/install and everything goes fine, with a download bar appearing in the window. Problem is nothing is being downloaded- it just seems to hang. No green bar fills up. After half an hour to an hour it just pops up saying it failed to download service pack 2. I did successfully download some security updates before it prompted the service pack.
Any ideas on what the trouble is? Also, is there a way to download SP2 as a single file? If I can do that I can just use a friends computer and stuff it on my flash drive. Might be better since they have broadband...
I'm using dial-up. When I choose "custom" install I get the prompt to download Service Pack 2. I select download/install and everything goes fine, with a download bar appearing in the window. Problem is nothing is being downloaded- it just seems to hang. No green bar fills up. After half an hour to an hour it just pops up saying it failed to download service pack 2. I did successfully download some security updates before it prompted the service pack.
Any ideas on what the trouble is? Also, is there a way to download SP2 as a single file? If I can do that I can just use a friends computer and stuff it on my flash drive. Might be better since they have broadband...