Reinstall system restore keeping old restore points is there a way please?

[deayton]

windows xp sp 2 when I try to install sp3 in safe mode it crashes when it
gets to the system restore point as no system restore

 

[Gerry]

Doubtful.
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/reinstall.html

Why not post a copy of the Stop Error Report?

Disable automatic restart on system failure. This should help by
allowing time to write down the STOP code properly. Right click on
the My Computer icon on the Desktop and select Properties, Advanced,
Start-Up and Recovery, System Failure and uncheck box before
Automatically Restart.

Do not re-enable automatic restart on system failure. Check for variants
of the Stop Error message.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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[Unknown]

Do you have enough disk space available to allow SP3 to create a restore
point? You may want to run disk cleanup and defrag before installing SP3.

 

[deayton]

I have allowed for error messages to show so will advise next one.

SP3 will not install - neither will some other updates even in safe mode

Most xp security updates start extracting files to a temp directory and
then they hang - usually on _sfx_.dll then after a long time comes up with a
message.

Extraction failed

Thank you for your help - I am tring to avoid a format as have 5 years of
programs installed, one important old dos one that is no longer available.

XP MCE sp2 will not update
restore points gone
everything else runs ok and luckily most important programs [amazing]

tried to reinstall/repair XP MCE- crashes 5 minutes into it - no blue
screen even

nod 32
2gb processor 1gb ram
comodo firewall
ad aware
spybot
glary utilities



1. In the old days cleansweep would migrate a full program to another pc -
does anything do that now?

2. where to now - done cleanup, full virus/spyware scan, defrag, chkdsk,