i've reinstalled xp home edtion using complete recovery in stead of using just clean c drive, as a result i cant download sp2, when using clean c drive i've never had a problem before,has anybody had the same probem.
I did a clean install of XP recently & had problems with some of the updates, not SP2 but ones after that . I was led to this http://www.autopatcher.com/ which did the job .