SP2 won't install..

[Gordon J. Rattray]

Hi there,

I've got a Dell machine here and tried to do the repair install with the
original CD Rom install disk and it completed and now it's back to SP1.

I went to install SP2 on it and it failed to complete it due to permissions
denied when backing up the registry. I took ownership under "administrator"
of all the keys in the registry and it still won't complete. Then I just
kept hitting "ignore" when informing me of the permissions denied in backing
up the registry and it went along a lot further, but when it came almost to
the end of install SP2 it all of a sudden came up with a permission denied
in installing the SP2.

So, I've failed miserably in fixing this one....

What should I do?

Thanks,

Gordon

 

[TaurArian [MS-MVP]]

You receive an "Access is denied" error message when you try to install Windows XP Service
Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=873148

"Access Denied" error when trying to install SP2
http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=8125


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| Hi there,
|
| I've got a Dell machine here and tried to do the repair install with the
| original CD Rom install disk and it completed and now it's back to SP1.
|
| I went to install SP2 on it and it failed to complete it due to permissions
| denied when backing up the registry. I took ownership under "administrator"
| of all the keys in the registry and it still won't complete. Then I just
| kept hitting "ignore" when informing me of the permissions denied in backing
| up the registry and it went along a lot further, but when it came almost to
| the end of install SP2 it all of a sudden came up with a permission denied
| in installing the SP2.
|
| So, I've failed miserably in fixing this one....
|
| What should I do?
|
| Thanks,
|
| Gordon
|