Re: Windows XP SP2 setup error.
From: Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\) (Torgeir.Bakken-spam_at_hydro.com)
Date: 08/15/04
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Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 17:13:39 +0200
mikefisher wrote:
>
> "Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote:
>
>
>>mikefisher wrote:
>>
>>
>>>"Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote:
>>>
>>>>Rename or delete the Catroot2 folder and see if that
>>>>helps (please post back any result, good or bad).
>>>>
>>>>Take a look here on how to do that:
>>>>
>>>>cryptographic service error and how to fix it
>>>>http://www.updatexp.com/cryptographic-service.html
>>>
>>>Thanks for the advice, Torgeir. I forgot to mention I have SP1 and all
>>>critical updates installed and Windows XP updates also. I nevertheless found
>>>the article very interesting and joined the group. I did rename the Catroot2
>>>folder to XCatroot2
>>>and now the installation stops wih a "The system cannot find the path
>>>specified" error as it is extracting files so I suppose it is built to go to
>>>that folder.
>>>Does this give you any other ideas?
>>
>>Hi
>>
>>Try this:
>>
>>Create the folder Catroot2 yourself (an empty folder).
>>Then do a reboot and see if SP2 installs after this.
>>
>>
>>Also look in the file %windir%\Svcpack.log for any clues...
>>
>>
>>--
>>torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
>>Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
>>the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
>>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx
>>
>
> Thanks again for your attention Torgeir.
> I did make an empty Catroot2 folder this time and rebooted.
> Running the update resulted in the same message "the system cannot find the
> path specified". I replaced it with the original Catroot2 folder and rebooted
> and have the same experience so it seems I am going further backward , not
> forward!
> This is repeatable several times.
> I checked svcpack in D:\Windows.000 and found only earlier mentions
> of the runs I did when I was warned I did not have suffiecent disk space.
> The runs I did after this with suffienct space, resulting in the previously
> mentioned "cannot read or write" messages were not there, only an unmarked
> one re time which didn't mention anything re that particular failure. This
> svcpack is not updated for the last three or four failures, I suppose the
> process hadn't proceeded far enough to do that.
> The one other point which I did not mention and will now in case it
> may be relevant is that when the extraction starts from i386 it always go to
> a file on my drive i:\ . I do not see why it would choose it as there is
> plenty of space on D:\.
> i:\ is on a separate harddrive and seperate harddrive controller form d:\
Hi
Microsoft updates always selects the local drive with most free space
to unpack it temporary installations files to.
Did you find any more details in %windir%\Svcpack.log about the
install failure?
-- torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of the 1328 page Scripting Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx
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