Hi mikej--
Good for Dell for keeping their word that they would ship an actual Vista
DVD with their boxes, because there is no comparision in the help you can
get from one vs. the often worthless "recovery CDs with XP and recovery DVDs
with Vista" that the OEMs get away with shipping.
What Dell ***promised*** on their blog around the time Vista RTM'd was that
they were going to ship a Vista DVD with each and every box.
With a Vista DVD you have the advantage of doing a startup repair, a repair
install, or using what will fix a wide range of software caused no boot
Vistas, the bootrec.exe command switches that aren't well known but will
often fix a no boot Vista when other methods won't.
You're question's a good one. My experience is that when I've repaired no
boot's with a DVD that is earlier than the OS service packquite a few times
in XP, specifically XP SP2 boxes with an XP SP1 or XP CD, that the repaired
OS became whatever the CD's service pack level was that I used to repair.
Your situation is that you want to run a repair install with the
slipstreamed SP1 on a Vista HP RTM. I can't imagine any reason whatsoever
that you're going to have any trouble at all doing this. I would expect
that to get you Vista SP1 on your box. Vista SP1 is Vista RTM + the SP1
files.
Back up of course, but I'd go for it.
Good luck,
CH
"mikej" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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> I have a Dell laptop running Vista Home Premium. Vista SP1 will not
> install either through WU or manually. I've tried several possible
> solutions, but it appears it is due to a corrupt manifest file (0 length
> file).
>
> Microsoft wants me to do an in place upgrade. I requested the DVD
> required from Dell but the DVD they sent has SP1 included.
>
> My question is, can I do an in place upgrade on a non-SP1 system, using
> the SP1 slipstreamed DVD? Or is this just asking for trouble? If it
> would work, I would automatically have SP1 installed.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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> mikej