Can't do a repair install

On 09/13/2010 06:23 PM, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
> Having been unable to install any of the 42 updates (many of them
> "important security updates" -- it's always "update failed") that Vista
> Business wanted to install after I installed SP2 and gone through the
> initial steps that Microsoft recommends to solve the problem, I finally
> obtained a Vista install DVD but am unable to get that to work either:
> when I run setup.exe from within the running Vista system and click
> install, it tells em that it needs 400MB+ of free space on any drive and
> that no space is available -- despite there being almost 20GB free on
> the Vista volume I'm trying to repair, 10GB free on the XP volume, and
> 30GB and 50GB free on two other partitions.
>
> What kind of a brain-dead system is this!?
>
> Time to restore the Vista+SP1 image and start over, I think.
>
> Perce


Yep

Vista is junk


Now that win7 is out Microsoft is not even going to bother to fix
the bugs

Having been unable to install any of the 42 updates (many of them
"important security updates" -- it's always "update failed") that Vista
Business wanted to install after I installed SP2 and gone through the
initial steps that Microsoft recommends to solve the problem, I finally
obtained a Vista install DVD but am unable to get that to work either:
when I run setup.exe from within the running Vista system and click
install, it tells em that it needs 400MB+ of free space on any drive and
that no space is available -- despite there being almost 20GB free on
the Vista volume I'm trying to repair, 10GB free on the XP volume, and
30GB and 50GB free on two other partitions.

What kind of a brain-dead system is this!?

Time to restore the Vista+SP1 image and start over, I think.

Perce

I finally
> obtained a Vista install DVD
What do you mean by that?
--
John the West Ham fan


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"Percival P. Cassidy" <> wrote in message
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> Having been unable to install any of the 42 updates (many of them
> "important security updates" -- it's always "update failed") that Vista
> Business wanted to install after I installed SP2 and gone through the
> initial steps that Microsoft recommends to solve the problem, I finally
> obtained a Vista install DVD but am unable to get that to work either:
> when I run setup.exe from within the running Vista system and click
> install, it tells em that it needs 400MB+ of free space on any drive and
> that no space is available -- despite there being almost 20GB free on the
> Vista volume I'm trying to repair, 10GB free on the XP volume, and 30GB
> and 50GB free on two other partitions.
>
> What kind of a brain-dead system is this!?
>
> Time to restore the Vista+SP1 image and start over, I think.
>
> Perce