When Windows XP was released it came on a CD and was fairly insecure. Microsoft has since brought out several service packs, the latest one being Windows XP Service Pack 3. When using Windows XP you'll be prompted to download this service pack from Windows Update and it will be installed. The download is about 350MB. But what if you want to reinstall Windows XP without having to redownload the service pack or if you want to use a program like BartPE that requires the Windows XP Service Pack 3 setup files. You can't just download the XP SP3 CD (the one that currently retails) so what do you do? You slipstream the service pack files with the original XP CD to create a new collection of updated setup files.
Insert the Windows XP install CD and close the welcome screen that appears.
Open Windows Explorer by opening My Computer and clicking the Folders button on the toolbar. Then click the CD/DVD drive in the folders panel.
Choose Edit, Select All and then Edit, Copy
Open the C:\ drive from the folders panel (If a screen appears saying that the files are hidden, then just click "Show the Contents of this Folder") and choose File, New, Folder and then call that new folder XPCD. Then choose Edit, Paste and wait for all the files to copy across.
Nowwe will be downloading and slipstreaming Windows XP Service Pack 2 into the original setup files. You will then be able to use the files for whatever purpose you wanted to use them for (eg. BartPE etc.)
You need to download the service pack from the Microsoft website or get it off the CD you may have ordered. You can download the service pack from the following address http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5B33B5A8-5E76-401F-BE08-1E1555D4F3D4&displaylang=enSave the file on your c:\ drive as XPSP3.exe.
Now we need to extract and slipstream SP3 into the original XP setup files (Microsoft calls it Integrate). Choose Start, Run and type cmd and press enter. You should see the Command Prompt appear. At the prompt type "cd \" (without the quotes).
We are just about to start the Slipstreaming (Integration). Type "xpsp3.exe /integrate:c:\xpcd" (without the quotes). This will start the process of slipstreaming (integration).
The Service pack will first extract all it's files to a temporary location on the largest hard disk. This could be c:\, d:\ or any drive. It doesn't matter, these files will be removed when the integration process is completed.
When the extraction is complete, the setup wizard will appear, and the integration will start. When it's done click OK to the message and the temporary files will be deleted.
To check whether the slipstream completed successfully you can see whether or not one particular file was copied across. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the C:\XPCD folder and check if there is a file called "win51ip.SP3" (without the quotes). If it's there, the slipstream (integration) was successful. If not then try the steps again.
That's it - Now all you have to do is get a copy of WinImage to extract the boot image and then use Nero to burn all these files + the boot image. I hope you now have successfully slipstreamed Service Pack 3 into Windows XP. These steps will also work for slipstreaming Service Pack 4 into Windows 2000 and Service Pack 2 into Windows Server 2003. Now you can use your newly slipstreamed files for BartPE!
