Satellite 2450-S203 - installed XP SP1 of recovery CD - cannot update

The hard drive on my Satellite 2450 S203 has not then I replaced and installed XP from the recovery CD. Everything's fine. I now have a PC running XP SP1.

I tried the update of XP start > all progtrams > Windows update but it failed, the updated software I used was not compatible with the update site or something similar.

I found a site of Microsoft, who said I had to install SP1a and then put to SP1a update to SP3. I downloaded the SP1a installation tool and it seemed to do things, and I'm guessing that SP1a installed OK.

When I go to start > all programs > Windows update, the update starts OK but after a few moments, I get an error message on the Microsoft Update Server does not.

* Question 1: *-anyone have any ideas what I should try next?

* Question 2: * fact Toshiba have nowhere where I can download a more current version of XP - SP2 or SP3 say - so that I can eventuially happen to SP3 without SP1?

Any thoughts are welcome!

> Question 1: someone has any good ideas what I should try next?

Win XP SP1 is part of SP2. So, you can download the SP2 package from Microsoft or any other Windows pages page just google
So after installing SP2, you can follow with SP3.

Before you install SP3, you will need to install SP2 first

> Question 2: Toshiba has nowhere where I can download a more current version of XP - SP2 or SP3 say - so that I can eventuially happen to SP3 without SP1?

On the pages of Toshiba, you can download only the drivers and Toshiba tools
Windows Service Packs are Microsoft products, and you should check the Microsoft pages for this.

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