Fanflame wrote:
> I wonder if you can assist me. I have a XP Pro just come back into the
> office and it only has SP2 on it instead of throwing it away I was going
> to update it to SP3 and reuse.
If somebody else has been administering the machine, my personal recommendation
would be to reformat the drive (in fact, delete the partitions) and reinstall.
If it's broken in one way, it's probably broken in lots of other ways and it
isn't worth trying to find and fix them all.
Harry.
>
> However, every time I try to install SP3 it fails after unpacking and
> during the "making and Inventory" stage, which is after about 5 minutes
> in reality.
>
> I have looked at the log file and there is nothing that relates to
> today but I can see it tried to install it once before... Her is the
> text...
>
>> 2003-04-08 17:37:14 16:37:14 Success IUCTL Starting
>> 2003-04-08 17:37:14 16:37:14 Success IUCTL Shutting down
>
> I have read the Microsoft Support page on SP3 failures and nothing
> seems to relate to this installation. I am not using Wireless and have
> no Wireless drivers installed and I can see that the prerequisites are
> all OK. I have loads of free disk space and 2GB RAM so the machine is
> pretty OK and that is whey I wanted to update it and reuse it but if
> this goes on I will take a hammer to it!
>
> However I cannot understand why there is no error number or log??
>
> Has anyone got any clues or advice please?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Brian
> aka Fanflame
>
>
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