I just checked & downloaded it without any problem. Perhaps a connection issue? I suggest you try again after some time. I'm sure you'll succeed.
I would just like to say that I really appreciate the work you did on this, LateShift. And thanks for sharing. I just recently purchased an older lappy (Gateway m675) that has the COA for XP Pro but has an invalid Vista (YUK!) installed. I went to hunt down the XP pro .ISO and this is the first place I looked. I have more than I bargained for. Your campaign to keep XP around is valiant and noble. I have Win 7 but it is a resource hog. I use XP for school (attempting a degree in programming) and your post is awesome. Thanks.
I did follow instructions, and in my folder, new ISO files is only about 145MB, but I mount to a virtual drive, it's about 580-590MB, it's strange .. Any help??
Followed instructions and well done...thank you very much just want to ask. Do we need serial for this during installation?
Of course you need serials for installation except if you are using the dell xp versions on a dell computer.
I am trying to create a Dell Home XP disc using this method but I can't get it to work. xdelta3: target window checksum mismatch: XD3_INVALID_INPUT The base iso I have verifys against it checksum and I've re-downloaded the Dell delta twice with no change. Can someone who has got it working with the Dell deltas calculate a checksum for the delta file please? Any other ideas? Ta. Ben
lol good advice I now understand the functionality and should have looked at the batch file closer the first time, the Dell OEM Home disc is made by applying the delta to one of the iso created earlier in the chain Thanks. Ben
Dell Home SP3 updated to the last one from Dell (2009). Added matching Pro to the old Home (2008). All up 4 Dell now included.
OK! This explains why the checksum didn't match up with the other Dell XP Pro SP3 ISO posted all over the net! Code: Size: 626,061,312 bytes (597.06 MB) MD5: F67BE79335EA428B65DBADF4F9CFBB66 SHA-1: FC585B154BFD9D4C7A424B6E01DE3E7BD1183F5F CRC32: CDFA0A4E So the 'de-padded' ISO is actually the technically 'untouched' one compared to the padded ISOs posted elsewhere!
You asking or telling? If I haven't ripped the ISO myself from an original CD, I mount the ISO in a virtual drive, then rip it with Nero, it then reads it and leaves out the dummy data most other ISO reading programs don't. ImgBurn is an ok program to make an ISO, put it adds padding. Still it's the most common program available, reason I ask people to use it. This has been covered in a few threads here on MDL. If I remember correctly, you yourself has seen this 300KB padding with some Windows 98 ISO.