Making a clean Windows XP Install cd for your compaq v3000z

making a clean Windows XP Install cd for your compaq v3000z

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Burn the restore DVDs - better use a DVD burner because using
CDs takes 15 blank CDs, you can use an external DVD burner,
make copies of them and keep them in 2 different, safe places,

Download all the drivers from HP, except the nvidia stuff,
go to laptopvideo2go.com for the video drivers, make shure
to get the "modded INF" file, and go to nvidia.com for the
chipset drivers - you also need the
"Microsoft Universal Audio Architecture Bus Driver for High Definition Audio"
its "sp32646.exe" its at

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp32501-33000/sp32646.exe

- make shure to burn a copy, or save your
drivers that you just downloaded

find the "i386" folder on your hard disk, AND the "swsetup" folder,
burn both to DVD, You may want to make more than one copy of
each DVD/CD and keep them in 2 different, safe places,

Download "Belarc Advisor" at " www.belarc.com/free_download.html"
its freeware, and use it to find system info, like your CD KEY, you might
want to save the web page it makes, so you have a record of before and
after the reinstall - copy that page to another computer or print it out

The key you need to reinstall, is different than the one on the bottom
of your laptop, thats why you need to save that info

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go to " http://www.nu2.nu/download.php?sFile=bcd111.zip" and download
"bcd111.zip"

go to " http://www.nero.com/nero6/eng/WNASPI32.DLL.html" and download
"WNASPI32.DLL"

go to " http://www.nu2.nu/download.php?sFile=wxp10.zip" and download
"wxp10.zip"

extract "bcd111.zip" - I extracted to "c:\bcd111"

extract "wxp10.zip" into the folder that was made by extracting "bcd111.zip"

the folders should be like this

\bcd111\bin\

and

\bcd111\cds\wxphome

and

\bcd111\cds\wxppro

put the "WNASPI32.DLL" into the "\bcd111\bin\" folder

If you have Windows XP Pro, put the 'i386' folder into "\bcd111\cds\wxppro\files"

If you have Windows XP Home, put the 'i386' folder into "\bcd111\cds\wxphome\files"

In the "\bcd111\cds\wxphome\files" and "\bcd111\cds\wxppro\files"
folders, there are 3 files

"w2ksect.bin" "win51" and "win51ic" for Windows XP Home
and w2ksect.bin" "win51" and "win51ip" for Windows XP Pro

you need to copy "win51ic" and re-name that copy, to "win51ic.SP2"
for Windows XP Home

and you need to copy "win51ip" and re-name that copy, to "win51ip.SP2"
for Windows XP PRO

This keeps the CD from asking for the Service Pack 2 files,

Now there should be 4 files, and the 'i386' folder,


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Now the fun part.

Click in the start menu, click on run, type in "cmd" and hit enter
now find were the "\bcd111" folder is, mine was extracted to "c:\bcd111"
so I typed in "cd c:\bcd111"

put a blank CD into your burner

If you have Windows XP Pro, type "bcd wxppro"
If you have Windows XP Home, type "bcd wxphome"

and press enter

you now have a Windows XP install CD

make copies of it, and keep them in 2 different, safe places,

if you want the ISO file - dont insert the blank cd - and look at the text
in the command window for the ISO location - just copy it some ware else

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Installing windows and Quick Play


Boot with the Windows install cd

delete all partitions

now create a partition in the unpartitioned space - press C
You should see "Create partition of size (in MB):" and that
number is how much free space you have, take that number and
type it into a caculator, minus 1028mb, like this
"29317 - 1028 = 28289" yours will be different, that is what
size to make your partition

I tried a few times and had problems getting it just 1028mb,
- you can have a larger partition for quick play than 1028mb,
thats what I did, my quick play partition is 1038mb,

now just setup windows normal after that

Installing Quick Play is easy

you will need that DVD with the "swsetup" folder,
in the "swsetup" folder, is a folder called "HPQPDP",
run the setup in that folder, and it will install
quick play

Good Luck


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I used "http://www.nu2.nu/" to find a lot of this info
and also "http://forum.notebookreview.com/" and
"www.google.com" for the rest

Any corrections, just post them here and I will edit my post Thanks

 

Will this also work for other PC manufacturers? Such as Acers that do not come with XP discs?

 

if it has the 'i386' folder - and that folder has all the files you need,
shure why not

The 'i386' folder is the windows install files - all the rest is used to get
the cd to boot

 

Why do you have to burn the restore DVD is you down loaded all the Driver's and you Burned windows to a CD?

 

All you realy need is the "i386" folder on your hard disk, and
the "swsetup" folder - "swsetup" is the compaq drivers and software,
the drivers you will not need, because you can download them,
But the installer fror quick play is in the "swsetup" folder, and
that you cant download -

I like to have the option to restore to a factory state, but no ,you
dont have to burn the restore DVDs, its just a little safer that way

 

will1384 ,
if i bought recovery dvd form hp , can i install a clean windows xp ??
or still i must make a clean windows xp from your guide ???

sorry for my bad english

 

The DVD's will just restore everything back to factory state - meaning it will install every software included with the system along with XP. SO, if you want to have a clean version of Windows XP disc then you will have to create one on your own(follow the guide).

I would definately recommend burning those recovery discs. They will come in handy in case the installation of clean win XP fails due to any reason.

 

Will384,

Nice guide...

To the people asking if they should burn the recovery disc(s)... I myself am not a big fan of a set of recovery discs that put the system back to stock, as shipped condition....

Prefering instead to A: Do a Clean install of the OS, and then use Arconis True Image to "image" the drive, either be it to cd/dvd... OR create a Arconis Secure Zone (aka:"Recovery" partition) on the hard drive itself, accessed by pressing F11 upon boot.... Additionally you could use Ghost to image the drive.

Using either allows you to "image" your drive /data at ANY time...allowing the system to be "restored" to the point at which YOU last had a good working confiquration... with ALL your programs installed and confiqured...

Big plus to Arconis/Ghost is you can make AS MANY IMAGES as you want.... HP recovery disc creator allowing only (1) set to be burned...

That being said there are three good reasons you should burn them.


A: They come in handy when you get ready to SELL the machine.... Pop it in, and it's restores the unit to as-shipped condtiton

the "other" reason:

B: Let's say you're having a "problem" with your system and you call HP tech support.... well if it's not a pretty simple problem that can be fixed right away, Or a hardware problem is suspected HP is going to tell you to put "run a recovery",,,, to put the unit back to stock.

From a tech support prespective the recovery partition is a very cost effective way to confirm if the problem is in the OS, or the hardware... If the "problem" is still there after a "restore" you have a hardware problem. If it's gone away you have a software issue, virus, etc...


C: Third reason.... Once you burn the disc's and confirm they work you can DELETE the recovery partition on the hard drive itself to gain disc space.... Like 8 gig with Home/Pro and 12gig with MCE.


Besides the above I can't think of any reason to burn the recovery discs...


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Oh, one suggestion on the C:\SwSetup folder that contains SP' (SP's=Service Packs. aka "drivers")

Do be sure to back it up and everything, but instead of using the files within the setup folder, go to HP.com and download all the SP's direct.... then extract compare the version numbers against the ver numbers in the SwSetup folder.
If you're doing a "clean" install you might as well be using the latest revisions.

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Has anyone tried this with Windows MCE on a laptop??

 

the "Microsoft Universal Audio Architecture Bus Driver for High Definition Audio"
is at

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp32501-33000/sp32646.exe

 

Will1384,

Don't know if you are aware of it or not but once you're logged in, you can edit your orginal post with new info if you want to add something.

 

I am following this guide however I am getting this. It asks me to insert SP 2 CD? please advice what am I doing wrong? thank you

 

has anybody tried this on MCE? do i put the i386 in the pro or home? also, in the wxppro\files folder - i have win51ip instead of win51ic. do i just make that win51ip.SP2? or change it to "ic"

 

Windows MCE will not work since it has a second cd. Sombody posted a guide dealing MCE so do a search. Whatever you do, don't publish any serials because Microsoft will blacklist your copy.

This guide requires too many unnecessary steps and a little difficult for most people.

When Vista comes out it better to buy another Retail/OEM full copy and transfer that one copy to all of your future computer purchases. You can't activate on more than one computer so sell your old computer by putting OS + bloatware back on (Recovery DVDs). That way you can always do clean installs and doesn't matter if they give you the OS. It looks like they loosen the license rules to allow this. As long as the copy is activated on one computer MS won't block you.

 

get a MAC then LOL

- Just had to

 

I also get that strange message (translated from Swedish):

"Please insert "Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 CD" diskette in drive A:"



Have anyone had success with this?

 

you need the file win51ic.SP2 to keep that from happening, I told you how
in my original post,

"you need to copy "win51ic" and re-name that copy, to "win51ic.SP2" - Now there should be 4 files "w2ksect.bin" "win51" "win51ic" and "win51ic.SP2" "

good luck

 

The original pro and home folders have different filenames:

wxphome: w2ksect.bin, win51, win51ic

wxppro: w2ksect.bin, win51, win51i p

1 - I used wxppro and didn't change " p" to "c", is that why it doesn't work? It seems like it should be "c" in both according to your description, but you didn't mention changing the letter.

2 - I double checked, the fourth *.sp2 file is there.

3 - You said that i386 should be placed in \bcd111\cds\wxppro, but the only way I could make it work was by putting it in \bcd111\cds\wxppro\files. bcd couldn't find the i386 folder othervise.

 

Were you able to get it to work, I am going to change my post,
as I am doing that I am also re-making another Windows XP cd just
to check the steps,

 

Nope, still no luck. Forgot to say that I'm using a nx9420, so maybe it's my fault anyway, but I thought this should work with most PC's. It doesn't look model specific to me.

 

I was able to make a working Windows XP again, I tested by booting
the CD, and comparing it to the first one made, the first one that I
made, I used it to do a fresh install, so I know it works,

I don't think the model matters,

but if its still asking for the service pack 2 cd or disk, it must be the
win51ic.SP2 or win51ip.SP2 file Also from a Google search it looks
like the extension needs to be uppercase, like ".SP2" not ".sp2"

you could also try the files uppercase, like
"W2KSECT.BIN" "WIN51" "WIN51IC" and "WIN51IC.SP2" for Windows XP Home

Mine were all lowercase except the ".SP2" extension

 

Mine too, and YGPM.

 

Ok, I just wanted to say to all that it finally worked well, I did something wrong at first....

 

If I have Windows Media Center where do I have to put the I386 folder in the Home edition or the Pro?

 

I have a Pavilion DV5000t laptop from HP (Presario and Compaq's big brothers) that came stock with Windows XP Media Center. I have a copy of XP Home, but since I have a dual core machine, it wouldn't support both processors so that'd be useless. All I've got in terms of installing are two bloatware infested HP recovery DVDs.

This leads to my question:
Does this solution work for all builds of Windows XP? (Media center is based on Pro after all) And if it does, would it work the same way?
I remember definitely having seen an i386 folder on my drive at one point...

Another question: Wouldn't it be easier to recover your key, then download an image of a regular install disc and install using your authentic key or do they include machine-specific stuff into each different pre-install?

On another line, I was trying to slipstream an XP disc SP1 into an SP2 disc for installing on my girlfriend's bootcamp mac and it wouldn't let me use the same key. Is it the same situation on this?

 

XP Home SP2 supports dual core processors. There is a difference between dual processor and dual core systems. XP Pro is only necessary for dual processor systems.

 

Oh, I guess I wasn't paying attention to the difference when I read that. At any rate, my copy of XP home is installed on one of my desktops and I dont want to risk getting it blacklisted. Main question is whether or not I can use the proscribed method to create a cleanly installable copy of the XP MCE that's included with my laptop.

 

Yes, it should be possible. Maybe this thread will help you out...
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=88294

 

Hey, that's exactly what I was looking for Lol. Thanks a lot. I appreciate it.