Re: XP service pack 2 takes over 450 Gig of disk space

Marshall Dudley wrote:

> We just tried to do an update for the new service pack and it reports
> that there is insufficient disk room. The drive has 450 Gig free on it
> for heavens sake!!!! How much room does this update take! The disk
> requirements for Windows are getting beyond rediculous. I doubt 1 in
> 1,000 people have this much disk space. How do they expect ANYONE to
> update with these absurd requirements.
Hi

I would think this drive have several partitions?

How much free space is it on the drive where Windows is installed?

Also note that you must also have 30 MB of free hard disk space on the
first primary system partition (that is where the Ntldr file, the
Boot.ini file, and the Ntdetect.com file is located).


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Marshall Dudley wrote:

> "Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote:
>>Marshall Dudley wrote:
>>
>>
>>>We just tried to do an update for the new service pack and it reports
>>>that there is insufficient disk room. The drive has 450 Gig free on it
>>>for heavens sake!!!! How much room does this update take! The disk
>>>requirements for Windows are getting beyond rediculous. I doubt 1 in
>>>1,000 people have this much disk space. How do they expect ANYONE to
>>>update with these absurd requirements.
>>
>>Hi
>>
>>I would think this drive have several partitions?
>
>
> No, it is 4 150 or so Gig drives on a RAID controller, all spanned into one
> partition and drive letter, drive C:.. When you do a dir, it gives that it
> has slightly over 450,000,000,000 bytes free on drive C:.

Yes, this is strange, then you should not have got this error.

If ZIP drives or similar is attached or network drives mapped, disconnect
any such thing and see if that helps.


>>How much free space is it on the drive where Windows is installed?
>
>
> About 460 Gigabyte for the Drive C: letter, the actual drive itself, hmmm,
> how can one tell, only the RAID controller has that information?
>
>
>>
>>Also note that you must also have 30 MB of free hard disk space on the
>>first primary system partition (that is where the Ntldr file, the
>>Boot.ini file, and the Ntdetect.com file is located).
>
>
> All 4 drives are spanned at the drive BIOS level, so the 3 show up as one
> big drive. There is only one partition as far as the operating system is
> concerned, it only sees it as one huge drive. But even so, every physical
> drive should have at least 40 or so Gig free on it.
>
> Marshall



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