Installation Failed for SP2 on Server 2003

Hi,

I'm trying to install service pack 2 on on our server, which has Windows
Server 2003 SP1 on it currently. I keep getting error 0x80070070 - not enough
disk space.

I've done a disk cleanup etc, and there is 400Mb of free space (whoever put
the partitions in when we got the server wasn't very clever - the C:\ drive
is only 4Gb).
I can't remove any applications as they are all used. The download size for
SP2 is showing at 120Mb, so I can't see why there is a problem.

I have even tried going to environement variables and changing the Temp and
WINNT\temp folders to point at another drive, incase it is just a temporary
space issue for the installation process (this worked when carrying out an
upgrade to our business system), but this doesn't seem to have any effect.

Does anyone have any ideas?

rich80 wrote:
> I'm trying to install service pack 2 on on our server, which has
> Windows Server 2003 SP1 on it currently. I keep getting error
> 0x80070070 - not enough disk space.
>
> I've done a disk cleanup etc, and there is 400Mb of free space
> (whoever put the partitions in when we got the server wasn't very
> clever - the C:\ drive is only 4Gb).
> I can't remove any applications as they are all used. The download
> size for SP2 is showing at 120Mb, so I can't see why there is a
> problem.
>
> I have even tried going to environement variables and changing the
> Temp and WINNT\temp folders to point at another drive, incase it is
> just a temporary space issue for the installation process (this
> worked when carrying out an upgrade to our business system), but
> this doesn't seem to have any effect.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?

You need to free up more space.

You could have checked the disk space requirements for SP2 for Windows 2003
easily enough:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926029/

So - you need to have 1200MB free, minimum.

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Shenan Stanley
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Adding to Shenan's excellent answer is that the SP2 download is 375mb alone.

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Peter

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"rich80" <> wrote in message news:4FFE11A6-ED92-4060-8DCB-...
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install service pack 2 on on our server, which has Windows
> Server 2003 SP1 on it currently. I keep getting error 0x80070070 - not enough
> disk space.
>
> I've done a disk cleanup etc, and there is 400Mb of free space (whoever put
> the partitions in when we got the server wasn't very clever - the C:\ drive
> is only 4Gb).
> I can't remove any applications as they are all used. The download size for
> SP2 is showing at 120Mb, so I can't see why there is a problem.
>
> I have even tried going to environement variables and changing the Temp and
> WINNT\temp folders to point at another drive, incase it is just a temporary
> space issue for the installation process (this worked when carrying out an
> upgrade to our business system), but this doesn't seem to have any effect.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
>