system restore & reloading windows XP with old CD

[CogginsCL]

I am trying to reload my windows CD disk however, I get a message telling me that the windows program I have in my system is newer then my CD disk. I know there is a way around this but, I don't remember how to do it. Can someone please help me with this.

also can't use my system restore program? will SP2 reload this program?

[Dusty]

Welcome to the CH forums.

The installed version of XP is newer than that on your cd because it has been updated.  You'd have to uninstall SP.2 - see here for various methods.

But why do you want to redo the installation?  It's a lot of work to reinstall/repair then get all the necessary updates again.

also can't use my system restore program? will SP2 reload this program?

What program do you mean?

I assume that you have a full copy of the XP cd not a recovery version.

FYI there's a good read here.

Good luck.

[patio]

Slipstreaming XP SP2