Error when tring to install service pack 2

When installing Service pack2 from cd. It installs up to the point of
creating restore point,then get an error that say's Unable to read or write
to data base.

I have tried 2 different cd update disk's same error,Any help would be
helpful.

Hey unhappy,

Try this...

The steps below come from Q278316 (
http://support.microsoft.com/default...B;EN-US;278316 )

1. Click Start, click Run type %SystemRoot%\Security and press Enter.

2. Click File, click New, and click Folder.
Name the new folder as "OldSecurity".

3. Move all of the files ending in .log from the %SystemRoot%\Security
folder to
the OldSecurity folder.

4. Find the Secedit.sdb file in the %SystemRoot%\Security\Database folder,
and then
rename this file to "Secedit.old".

5. Click Start, click Run, type mmc, and then click OK.

6. Click Console, click Add/Remove Snap-in, and then add the Security and
Configuration snap-in.

7. Right-click Security and Configuration and Analysis, and then click Open
Database.

8. Browse to the %SystemRoot%\Security\Database folder, type Secedit.sdb in
the
File name box, and then click Open.

9. When you are prompted to import a template, click Setup Security.inf,
and then
click Open.




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