[teenee23]

Hi!

HP Pavilion zt 3000
Windows XP
768 MB RAM


I have been having troubl einstalling the servive pack 2 for a while now...I hv tried atleast a dozen times and it hangs where it says it is checking my product key. My OS is genuine (acknowledged by Microsoft website when I was updating the Direct X9.0) so I dont see what the problem is. I tried to get it off the internet (posts on google) and when I run set up, it tried to install the whole windows package...

If I hv to run the whole set up, does it mean that my data will be erased?

Is it possible to get only a XP Service pack 2 update somewhere?

Please help...am a little desperate since I have been getting innumerable erros using windows and when I report it, it always asks me to download Service pack 2...


Many thanks!
Tina

[KanoakaVirus]

If you want i can find the link i used for sp2 i recently re installed windows xp and it comes with sp1 but it shouldn't be a problem downloading sp2 , and there's sp3 now did you know?

[evilfantasy]

SP3 has not been released to the public except in beta form. Not suggested downloading it yet.

Try here Help with Windows Updates

[teenee23]

Hi!


Thanks for the replies....I did hear abt the SP3 but I would really appreciate if you can gimme the link to download sp2...

installing windows won't erase my data right?


Thanks much!

[Gazmondo]

Direct SP2 download:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...5-9E368D3CDB5A

[philthomas]

Originally Posted by teenee23

Hi!


installing windows won't erase my data right?


Thanks much!

Installing SP2 won't erase your data

Installing Windows will

[KanoakaVirus]

Does anyone know the advantages of sp3?

[philthomas]

It's not released officially yet, but you can read about it here