Slip Streaming Windows And Service Packs Onto One CD
Needed Items
Original CD Of Windows - 2000/XP Home/XP Pro
Latest Administrative Version Service Pack - SP1, SP2, SP3, SP4 - Microsoft
Burning Application - Nero, Easy CD Creator
CD Image Manipulator - ISOBuster
Guide Items
In this guide I will be going through the process to make a Windows XP Home SP2 CD. This guide can be used to create a 2000 or XP Pro CD as well.
How To Do It
The first thing that you need to do is to create three folders on your hard drive.
First Folder - This is for the Windows CD contents - I have it called “WindowsXPCD”
Second Folder - This is for the Service Pack contents - I have called it “WindowsXPSP2”
Third Folder - This is for the Windows CD boot file - I have called it “WindowsXPBoot”
You can use any names you like. I would use your root drive as it will be easier to find and use.

Now you need to copy your downloaded Service Pack to your new folder. I have also renamed the file to WindowsXPSP2.exe. This is so I know what it is and for when I have to type it in later. I find the original filename of WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe just a little to long to easily remember.
Next you need to copy the contents of the Windows CD to your new folder. There is no copy protection on the CD so everything will copy straight over.

Now we need to update our original Windows CD with the Service Pack. To do this we need to click on the Start Menu and select Run.

In the run dialog box we need to type in the following,
(Hard Drive):(Location of Service Pack)(Service Pack Name).exe -s(Hard Drive):(Location Of Windows CD)\
For me this and this guide that would be the following
C:\WindowsXPSP2\WindowsXPSP2.exe -s:C:\WindowsXPCD

After you click Run it will extract all of your files to a temp directory.

It will then start the integration of the Service Pack into the Windows CD.

When it is done the following screen will appear telling you that the integration has been completed.

Manual Mode – Only Needed If Above Way Failed - Not 100% Success Rate
If for some reason when you try to use the above command a screen comes up saying that the Service Pack can’t be integrated then you can do it manually. If there is a problem doing it automatically this maybe due to a disc that has been edited by a computer company like Dell. There is no guaranty that these edited discs will work when slipstreamed.
To do this manually you need to put the following into the Run dialog box,
(Hard Drive):(Location of Service Pack)(Service Pack Name).exe -x
For me this and this guide that would be the following
C:\WindowsXPSP2\WindowsXPSP2.exe -x

This will extract the files to the directory that the Service Pack is located in.

All you have to do then is to copy the directory it creates into the Windows CD directory that you have created on your hard drive.
End Of Manual Mode
ISOBuster
Now we move onto ISOBuster. We are using this program to take a file from the Windows CD to make our new slip streamed CD bootable.
Load up ISOBuster with your Windows CD in the drive. It should take you straight to the contents of the CD. If not click through until you have the contents of Bootable CD in the view window. Here you can see the file “Microsoft Coperation.img”. This is the file that we want.

To get it off the CD you need to right click on the file and then choose Extract.

It will ask you for a directory where you want to put it. Use the directory that we created earlier. Mine is called “WindowsXPBoot”.

That is it for ISOBuster.
Burning The CD
Now we move onto burning the new CD. Here I will go through both Easy CD Creator and Nero as these are the two most popular.
Easy CD Creator
You need to load up the program and then make a Bootable CD which can be found by going to File -> New CD Project -> Bootable CD
Next you need to set the options on the screen to,
Set Bootable CD Type to No Emulation
Load Segment to 0x7c0
Sector Count to 4

Now you need to click on Browse and find the file called Microsoft Corporation.img and then click on open.

Now we need to set the CD properties. Go to File -> CD Project Properties.
Under the General tab you need to set the following options,
The Volume Label MUST be set to the same name as your CD in your drive. The English CD names are below. Generally they will be the same except for the last two letters which will change country to country. If you are unsure then check the name of your original CD by putting it into the CD-Rom drive and then browsing it.
Win XP Pro -> “WXPCCP_EN”
Win XP Home -> “WXHCCP_EN”
Win XP Home OEM -> “WXHOEM_EN”
Win XP Pro OEM -> “WXPOEM_EN”
File system must be set to “ISO9660”
Physical Format Of CD must be set to “Mode 1: CDROM”

On the File Type tab the follow two setting must be applied.
Select Add All Files
Uncheck the Do Not Add Boxes

All you now have to do is to add all of the files from the WindowsCD folder into the project.

Now burn the disc in Disc-At-Once mode

You should now have a bootable Windows disk with the latest Service Pack on it.
Nero
The first thing to do is to select Boot CD. To do this go to File -> New. Then you need to select CD-Rom (Boot) on the left hand side of the window.
Under the source of Boot Image Date File click on Image File and browse to the Microsoft Corporation.img file you stored earlier.
Here you may need to enable Expert Settings to enter the following information.
Set kind of emulation to No Emulation
Load segments to 07C0
Number of loaded sectors to 4

Now we need to switch to the ISO tab.
Here we need to make sure that the following settings are configured as follows,
Format Of CD must be set to “Mode 1”
Character settings are set to “ISO9660”

Finally we now switch to the Label tab.
The Volume Label MUST be set to the same name as your CD in your drive. The English CD names are below. Generally they will be the same except for the last two letters which will change country to country. If you are unsure then check the name of your original CD by putting it into the CD-Rom drive and then browsing it.
Win XP Pro -> “WXPCCP_EN”
Win XP Home -> “WXHCCP_EN”
Win XP Home OEM -> “WXHOEM_EN”
Win XP Pro OEM -> “WXPOEM_EN”

Now will hit the New button to be taken to the main windows. Here we will add the files from the Windows CD folder we created earlier.

That’s it all we have to do now is to click on the Burn button and make sure that the write method is set to Disc-At-Once.
Once that is done hit the Burn button.

You should now have a bootable Windows disk with the latest Service Pack on it.