In order to slipstream a Service Pack with HFSLIP, you first need to verify if the Service Pack you wish to use is accepted by HFSLIP. The following table lists the supported Service Packs relevant to the OS source that you're going to put in the SOURCE folder.
| SOURCE | Supported Service Pack |
|---|---|
| Windows 2000 Gold | USP5*, SP4 |
| Windows 2000 with SP1 | USP5*, SP4 |
| Windows 2000 with SP2 | USP5*, SP4 |
| Windows 2000 with SP3 | USP5*, SP4 |
| Windows 2000 with SP4 | USP5* |
| Windows XP Gold | SP3 or SP2 or SP1a or SP1 |
| Windows XP with SP1 | SP3 or SP2 or SP1a |
| Windows XP with SP1a | SP3 or SP2 |
| Windows XP with SP2 | SP3 |
| Windows XP with SP3 | No Service Pack supported |
| Windows 2003 Gold | SP2 or SP1 |
| Windows 2003 with SP1 | SP2 |
| Windows 2003 with SP2 | No Service Pack supported |
*USP5 is an unofficial (non-Microsoft) Service Pack made by Gurgelmeyer. It can be regarded as SP4 with the post-SP4 hotfixes slipstreamed into it. More info can be found here. Use at your own risk.
The supported Service Pack versions for a specific source are sorted by preference from left to right. If you include more than one, the Service Pack with the highest preference for the OS version in the SOURCE folder is used and the others are ignored.
It is not possible to slipstream SP1, SP2 or SP3 for Windows 2000 into any version of Windows 2000. These Service Packs are unsupported by Microsoft, and Service Pack 4 does not come with the "problems" that some people have with Service Pack 2 for Windows XP so there's no need to go through the extra trouble of supporting an earlier Service Pack for Windows 2000 in HFSLIP.
Once you've determined which accepted Service Pack version you wish to use, you need to download it if you don't have it at hand. Please note: you need the so called "Network Install" version of the Service Pack and not the "Express Install" version. Also, don't forget to use the Service Pack for the same language as your source.
List of downloadable Service Packs:
Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
(supported until 13-Jul-2010)
Windows XP Service Pack 3
(supported until 8-Apr-2014)
Windows XP Service Pack 2
(supported until 13-Jul-2010)
Windows Server 2003 32-bit Service Pack 2
(end of support date undetermined)
Windows Server 2003 32-bit Service Pack 1
(supported until 14-Apr-2009)
Copy the Service Pack installer into the HF folder and return to the page that send you here.