Service Pack 2 Fails - Not enough disk space!!! I only have 66GB a

[Guest]

I've just rebuilt my PC and have tried to install Service Pack 2 from both
the CD I have and the downloaded one but keep getting the Error message that "

There is not enough disk space on d:\$NtServicePackUninstall$ to install
Service Pack 2. I have 66GB available! What the heck gives.

I had Service Pack 2 installed for the last year or so but had to rebuild
this machine after serveral power outages killed my UPS and the PC kept
rebooting and shutting down.

Anyone see this problem and more importantly has anyone a fix for this?

Cheers and Thanks, CMG3

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I've just rebuilt my PC and have tried to install Service Pack 2 from both
the CD I have and the downloaded one but keep getting the Error message that "

There is not enough disk space on d:\$NtServicePackUninstall$ to install
Service Pack 2. I have 66GB available! What the heck gives.

I had Service Pack 2 installed for the last year or so but had to rebuild
this machine after serveral power outages killed my UPS and the PC kept
rebooting and shutting down.

Anyone see this problem and more importantly has anyone a fix for this?

Cheers and Thanks, CMG3

I suspect that you have 66 GBytes available on drive C: and
much less on drive D:.

 

[Michael Stevens]

I've just rebuilt my PC and have tried to install Service Pack 2 from
both the CD I have and the downloaded one but keep getting the Error
message that "

There is not enough disk space on d:\$NtServicePackUninstall$ to
install Service Pack 2. I have 66GB available! What the heck gives.

I had Service Pack 2 installed for the last year or so but had to
rebuild this machine after serveral power outages killed my UPS and
the PC kept rebooting and shutting down.

Anyone see this problem and more importantly has anyone a fix for
this?

Cheers and Thanks, CMG3

It seems you need more free space on your hard drive to complete the
installation.
You need to provide us more information on your systems configuration and
space available to help us help you.

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[Guest]

I have 3 HDs and the least amount of space available is on drive D and that's
66GBs. The other drives have 82GBs and 73GBs. This is an AMD Sempron 3K
with dual LCD monitors, 3 HDs (2 SATA, 1 External USB IDE), 1GB RAM running
Windows XP Pro - FRESHLY INSTALLED. All patches and updates except Service
Pack 2 loaded. WITH NO OTHER PROGRAMS LOAD YET.

It was running just fine with Service Pack 2 on it for months until the
constant re-boots due to constant blackouts and the final surrender of my UPS
battery. I think it was in the middle of several things when the power kept
dumping - Symantec Virus Scan, System Update and finally on the last power
loss and reboot, a scan that comes up before windows that checks the
integrity of the drives. That's the one I think 'broke the camel's back' and
XP decided it was time to retire.

So, now I've rebuilt the system and have applied some 60+ patches but it
will not allow Service pack 2 to install, in spite of the fact that there's
plenty of room on all drives (I've tried to direct it to put the uninstall
folder on other drives to no avail).

Should it matter that I'm installing on drive D? Did think so...

Thanks for the responses. I hope I've provided enough info to allow a
solution to be provided.

 

[mikeyhsd]

have you restricted the size of your pagefile.
if so, make it a SYSTEM MANAGED and try the install again.



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I've just rebuilt my PC and have tried to install Service Pack 2 from both
the CD I have and the downloaded one but keep getting the Error message that "

There is not enough disk space on d:\$NtServicePackUninstall$ to install
Service Pack 2. I have 66GB available! What the heck gives.

I had Service Pack 2 installed for the last year or so but had to rebuild
this machine after serveral power outages killed my UPS and the PC kept
rebooting and shutting down.

Anyone see this problem and more importantly has anyone a fix for this?

Cheers and Thanks, CMG3

 

[Plato]

I've just rebuilt my PC and have tried to install Service Pack 2 from both

http://www.bootdisk.com/xptop20.htm#1

 

[Rock]

I have the same problem, I've tried changing my virtual memory to System
Managed, it didn't fix the problem. I have 10 gigs free on the drive.

<snip>

I don't know the answer to your problem, but are you installing from windows
update, or are you trying to install from the CD? Also one workaround is to
create an installation CD that has SP2 slipstreamed into it, then do a clean
install with this installation CD. After that go to the windows update site
and install the post SP2 updates, then install programs from their original
media and restore data from a backup. Autostreamer facilitates the creation
of the slipstreamed installation CD.

Slipstream

http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp2_cd.htm
http://unattended.msfn.org/beginner/slipstream.htm

Autostreamer
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/1092632287/1
http://www.simplyguides.net/guides/using_autostreamer/using_autostreamer.html
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=223562