Re: Service Pack 2

From: Mike H (mike.hall.mail_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:11:28 -0400

Get a larger drive?.. use Partition Magic or BootItNG to make the primary
partition larger?.. SP2 is a MAJOR update..

"Robert" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2ad501c4a554$ac3002c0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> I've just tried to install XP SP2. It immediately
> bombed out, telling me I need 600Mb free disk space. I
> looked into this further, and one MS web page suggested I
> need 1.8Gb free disk space.
>
> I only have 219Mb free on the partition where XP is
> installed, but on another partition on the disk I have
> 8.57Gb free.
>
> Will XP really take up an *extra* 600Mb - 1.8Gb? I
> suspect not. I assume the SP2 CD is expanded on to the
> hard disk before files are copied into place. I tried
> changing the TEMP and TMP entries in the registry to
> point to the larger disk, but to no avail. Does anyone
> know a workaround for this problem?
>

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