XP service pack 2 takes over 450 Gig of disk space

[Marshall Dudley]

We just tried to do an update for the new service pack and it reports
that there is insufficient disk room. The drive has 450 Gig free on it
for heavens sake!!!! How much room does this update take! The disk
requirements for Windows are getting beyond rediculous. I doubt 1 in
1,000 people have this much disk space. How do they expect ANYONE to
update with these absurd requirements.

Marshall

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

The hard disk space requirements for Windows XP Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;837783&Product=windowsxpsp2

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| We just tried to do an update for the new service pack and it reports
| that there is insufficient disk room. The drive has 450 Gig free on it
| for heavens sake!!!! How much room does this update take! The disk
| requirements for Windows are getting beyond rediculous. I doubt 1 in
| 1,000 people have this much disk space. How do they expect ANYONE to
| update with these absurd requirements.
|
| Marshall

 

[Parker]

Hi Marshall,

Are you sure you mean 450 "gig"? Thats one enormous HDD!!

 

[Marshall Dudley]

Either that is wrong or their update does not know how to read the free disk. The
requirement they list there are almost trivial for today's drives. He has almost 1,000
times that much room, and the update will not run, reports that there is insufficient
free drive space.

Marshall

 

[Marshall Dudley]

Yes, that is right. It is a high definitiion TV TIVO type of system, and
that kind of space is needed to be able to save a reasonable amount of
programming since it requires about 20 gig an hour. That only gives about
25 hours of programming. I think he has 2 hard drives spanned together if I
remember right to get what he needed.

Marshall

 

[MowGreen [MVP]]

How are the HD's partitioned ?
XP SP2 will attempt to install from the same partition that the
WINDOWS directory is installed on. IF that partition lacks the space
then you will get the error message ... and there's nothing you can
do to change it.
You will have to use 3rd party software ( Partition Magic, BootNG )
to repartition the drives to provide space for SP2.


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[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

We just tried to do an update for the new service pack and it reports
that there is insufficient disk room. The drive has 450 Gig free on it
for heavens sake!!!! How much room does this update take! The disk
requirements for Windows are getting beyond rediculous. I doubt 1 in
1,000 people have this much disk space. How do they expect ANYONE to
update with these absurd requirements.

Hi

I would think this drive have several partitions?

How much free space is it on the drive where Windows is installed?

Also note that you must also have 30 MB of free hard disk space on the
first primary system partition (that is where the Ntldr file, the
Boot.ini file, and the Ntdetect.com file is located).

 

[Marshall Dudley]

Hi

I would think this drive have several partitions?

No, it is 4 150 or so Gig drives on a RAID controller, all spanned into one
partition and drive letter, drive C:.. When you do a dir, it gives that it
has slightly over 450,000,000,000 bytes free on drive C:.

How much free space is it on the drive where Windows is installed?

About 460 Gigabyte for the Drive C: letter, the actual drive itself, hmmm,
how can one tell, only the RAID controller has that information?

Also note that you must also have 30 MB of free hard disk space on the
first primary system partition (that is where the Ntldr file, the
Boot.ini file, and the Ntdetect.com file is located).

All 4 drives are spanned at the drive BIOS level, so the 3 show up as one
big drive. There is only one partition as far as the operating system is
concerned, it only sees it as one huge drive. But even so, every physical
drive should have at least 40 or so Gig free on it.

Marshall

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

No, it is 4 150 or so Gig drives on a RAID controller, all spanned into one
partition and drive letter, drive C:.. When you do a dir, it gives that it
has slightly over 450,000,000,000 bytes free on drive C:.

Yes, this is strange, then you should not have got this error.

If ZIP drives or similar is attached or network drives mapped, disconnect
any such thing and see if that helps.