add sp2 to recovery partition

[GoPool]

My T40 has that hidden partition that I use for recovery sometime. But everytime I recover, I end up with Windows XP with sp1. It is possible for me to add sp2 to my recovery partition, so that if i do a full system recovery back to manufacture settings it will automatically install sp2?

Side note: My thinpad take about 2 minutes to logon now, compared to less than a minute a few weeks ago. It that common, and is there something I can do to increase the boot speed. It looks like the files that take the longest to load are svhost.exe, and svpool.exe. Thanks a lot. I have no viruses or ad/spyware.

[richk]

I believe you cannot add SP2 to the recovery partition. If you get the latest Recovery and Restore (a 400+MB download) you can backup your machine onto CDs or a USB drive and call that your emergency backup. That would involve reinstalling from recovery partition (the last time) and applying SP2 and hotfixes first.

[carbon_unit]

SP2 will increase the boot time somewhat. What else are you installing? Norton anti virus?? (not to be confused with Symantec anti virus)

[GoPool]

I use NOD32, which I have always used, and I have disabled most of the startup programs that I never use. I recently installed Ubuntu 6.10, so now I dual boot to XP pro and Ubuntu. Has dual booting been shown to reduce the booting time of xp. Ubuntu boots in about 30 seconds, compared to more than 2 minutes in xp pro.