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Does anyone have an XP SP3 disc?
nottman
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My son's given me an old Samsung X05 laptop which I plan to use as a spare but although it's got service pack 3 installed, when I try to install my printer on it, it asks me to insert the SP3 disc. Microsoft don't issue these anymore, so if anyone's got one they don't need or can offer any alternative suggestions...?
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http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=24
Then using something like WinRAR extract the contents of it to a folder then when it asks for the disc point it to the folder you extract the contents into or you could just rerun the SP3 install and it should hopefully put the files back its looking for.
What it's asking for is the XP with SP3 disk - in other words, the XP installation disk.
That's what you need to borrow from a friend of neighbour.
Is the version of XP in question, the Home Edition or Professional? If it's the XP that came with the laptop, I would
assume it's the Home Edition. If it's since been re-installed with a separate XP disk, it could be Professional.
OP ... I have both ISO's (no product keys) in a temp folder on our webserver ... PM me if you need a link.
This was mainly used in Win98, but some OEMs carried the practice over for XP.
you could just click on cancel.
and does anyone recall is XP one of those OS's that copies it's installation files to i386?
Don't seem to - just searched i386 on my XP Pro VM and got this
http://s22.postimg.org/7z902fye9/386.jpg
http://s24.postimg.org/4gy0jxhtx/i386.png
hmm, there seem to be multiple entries for the same thing.
and extract the contents with WinRAR, or any program specifically made to handle ISO files. There is a copy of
this in a temp folder on our webserver. If you need a download link, drop me a PM . . .
The whole idea if an ISO is that its a CD image file. You have to burn it to CD as an image using ImgBurn, Nero etc. Although you can extract an ISO using WINRAR, there is no need in this case.