This is a fresh installation of Windows XP Pro. There nothing but the OS installed. I am trying to install all the updates, but when I get to SP2, during the installation I recieve a notification that there is "Not enough disk space on C:\Windows\$NTService PackUninstall$ to install Service Pack 2. Setup needs a minimum of 1 additional megabytes of free space or if you also want to archive the files for uninstallation, Setup requires 1 additional megabytes of free space, Free additional space on you rhard disk and then try again." There appears to be 15.1 GB available on the disk. I have run CleanDisk and freed all availble space.
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Do not know if this would be of help - but MS states that some machines have problems installing Service Pack2 - the update to resolve the issue is at this url:
http://www.microsoft.com/d
this is for certain Celeron and P4 Prescott based CPU's. You can get a copy of FreshDiagnose from http://www.evertech.com/in
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by: shard26Posted on 2004-12-08 at 09:24:43ID: 12775447
Microsoft says that if you do not have enough hard disk space to install Windows XP Service Pack 2, an express or custom installation of the Service Pack may just stop, without giving you any error message. However, there will be clues in the Svcpack.log file, if you examine it. (It should be in your \Windows folder.) If you go to the end, you may see these entries:
150.782: There is not enough space on the disk.
150.782: Service Pack 2 installation did not complete.
150.782: Update.exe extended error code = 0x70
Microsoft says you need space on both the drive that holds your \Windows folder, plus you need 30 MB on the first primary system partition -- that's the drive that holds Ntldr and Boot.ini. If you need details on the space requirements, see http://support.microsoft.c