Windows 2000 SP4, Windows Update: error code 0x8007F00D and 0x8007

With Windows 2000 SP4 ...

I get error 0x8007F00D with:
KB885835, KB841356, KB840987, KB841533, KB839643, KB839645, KB824151

and, error 0x80070070 with:
KB842526, KB841872

Any ideas what these are?

-MSUpdateUser,

MSUpdateUser wrote:

> With Windows 2000 SP4 ...
>
> I get error 0x8007F00D with:
> KB885835, KB841356, KB840987, KB841533, KB839643, KB839645, KB824151
>
> and, error 0x80070070 with:
> KB842526, KB841872
>
> Any ideas what these are?
>
Hi,


When attempting to download or install an update, you receive
error 0x80070070.
http://update.microsoft.com/windowsu...cleid=33&ln=en



--
torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...r/default.mspx

"Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote:

> MSUpdateUser wrote:
>
> > With Windows 2000 SP4 ...
> >
> > I get error 0x8007F00D with:
> > KB885835, KB841356, KB840987, KB841533, KB839643, KB839645, KB824151
> >
> > and, error 0x80070070 with:
> > KB842526, KB841872
> >
> > Any ideas what these are?
> >
> Hi,
>
>
> When attempting to download or install an update, you receive
> error 0x80070070.
> http://update.microsoft.com/windowsu...cleid=33&ln=en
> --
> torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
> Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
> the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...r/default.mspx
>

The link you mention says I don't have enough disk space. That is very
confusing because I have an excess of 400MB free on both my system drive and
my user profile drive ...

"MSUpdateUser" <> wrote in message
news:3935CDC2-D113-49AC-A9A6-...
>
> "Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote:
>
>> MSUpdateUser wrote:
>>
>> > With Windows 2000 SP4 ...
>> >
>> > I get error 0x8007F00D with:
>> > KB885835, KB841356, KB840987, KB841533, KB839643, KB839645, KB824151
>> >
>> > and, error 0x80070070 with:
>> > KB842526, KB841872
>> >
>> > Any ideas what these are?
>> >
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> When attempting to download or install an update, you receive
>> error 0x80070070.
>> http://update.microsoft.com/windowsu...cleid=33&ln=en
>> --
>> torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
>> Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
>> the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...r/default.mspx
>>
>
> The link you mention says I don't have enough disk space. That is very
> confusing because I have an excess of 400MB free on both my system drive and
> my user profile drive ...


There seems to be a common rarely occurring problem for users of your OS
in this area. For example, several users who were trying to reinstall IE6
found signs in their Active Setup Log.txt that a negative number was being
computed by ie6wzd.exe as the required size for download, which presumably
when treated as an unsigned number would be a huge positive number.

Since it occurs so rarely my guess would be that it must be due to some
unusual common factor. E.g. you mention having different drives for
different resources; something like that might be unusual enough to play
a role in it. I didn't even think of that possibility when I was trying to suggest
circumventions to the other users.

FWIW I would try activating /verbose logging on the updates to see
if there are more clues in their install logs. If you see lines in there
like this we will know that your symptom is based on the same type
of error

<example>
On diskspace check page.
CheckFreeSpace called
Sizes for install and download:
Install: 0, Install(Windows): 40001, Download: -10
Req sizes for drives
Install: 0, Windows: 429536720, Download: 0
Diskspace check. KBReqWinDir:429536720: KBAvailWinDir:1651400: KBReqInstallDir:0: KBAvailInstallDir:0: KBReqDownloadDir:0:
KBAvailDownloadDir:0
Diskspace check. KBReqWinDir:429550720: KBAvailWinDir:1651400: KBReqInstallDir:0: KBAvailInstallDir:0: KBReqDownloadDir:0:
KBAvailDownloadDir:0
Not enough diskspace.
Display string.
You need to have '429550720' KB free on drive C.
</example>


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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