win xp sp2 space requirement

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Is it really so that sp2 requires an incredible amount of hard disk space? I
have nearly 2 GB free space on drive C: before installation, and less than
300 MB after the installation. The total size of drive C: is 9 GB. Is there
anything I can do apart from not installing the sp2?
 
Ismo said:
Is it really so that sp2 requires an incredible amount of hard disk space? I
have nearly 2 GB free space on drive C: before installation, and less than
300 MB after the installation. The total size of drive C: is 9 GB. Is there
anything I can do apart from not installing the sp2?
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No it's not. There's something VERY wrong there.
 
When doing a fresh install, you should make sure that you have a fair amount
of free space in the system partition. Even though the minimum requirements
are reasonable, the number and size of files swells rapidly: windows
updates, system restore, temporary files, programs which by default install
into Program Files, logs, Documents and Settings, Prefetch ...

Large disk drives have become affordable!

In
 
=?Utf-8?B?SXNtbw==?= said:
Is it really so that sp2 requires an incredible amount of hard disk space? I
have nearly 2 GB free space on drive C: before installation, and less than
300 MB after the installation. The total size of drive C: is 9 GB. Is there
anything I can do apart from not installing the sp2?
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It was a mistake to set up a C: as only 9 gig. MS suggests that free
space on c: always be a 10 gig or more. So you are WAY offline.
 
Plato said:
It was a mistake to set up a C: as only 9 gig. MS suggests that free
space on c: always be a 10 gig or more. So you are WAY offline.
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And where do they say that?
 
Is it really so that sp2 requires an incredible amount of hard disk space? I
have nearly 2 GB free space on drive C: before installation, and less than
300 MB after the installation. The total size of drive C: is 9 GB. Is there
anything I can do apart from not installing the sp2?
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You really need to buy a new larger hard drive. Nine gigs isn't
big enough nowadays. And yes, XP is a space hog.
 
Ismo said:
Is it really so that sp2 requires an incredible amount of hard disk space? I
have nearly 2 GB free space on drive C: before installation, and less than
300 MB after the installation. The total size of drive C: is 9 GB. Is there
anything I can do apart from not installing the sp2?
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The hard disk space requirements for Windows XP Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=837783

Pre-Install, Install, Cleaning Up Afterwards
http://forum.aumha.org/viewforum.php?f=45
 
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