"Ottmar Freudenberger" wrote:
> "K. Becker" <> schrieb:
>
> > Trying to update this Windows XP SP2 box to SP3. Went to the update web site,
> > downloaded OK. During installation, had registry access errors (!) on
> > HKCR\RDSServer.DataFactor.2.8.1 and a couple of related keys. Changed
> > permissions, tried again. No pop-up errors about the registry this time, but
> > XP3 update failed again, error code 0x80070005.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950717/ ->
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949377/
> doesn't help, both of them?
Whoops - didn't spot either one of those in my chasing around through the KB
last night. I'll do the full download trick tonight, when I'm back at home.
>
> > #-198 Command line processed: "C:\WINDOWS\system32\sysocmgr.exe" /y
> > /i:C:\WINDOWS\system32\sysoc.inf
> > #E077 Could not locate a non-empty section [iis_common_install] when
> > calculating disk space in "C:\WINDOWS\INF\iis.inf". Error 0xe0000102: The
> > required line was not found in the INF.
>
> Do you have manipulated the sysoc.inf either manually or by using
> e.g. nLite to remove some Windows components?
Nope, at least not wittingly. I haven't heard of nLite, although I have used
various registry cleaners on and off over the years. The machine's a 1 GHz
Pentium IV with 512 MB of ram (maxed out, now), originally came with Windows
ME, got upgraded, and kept up over the years. I think I reformatted and
reinstalled a couple of years ago, not since then. I did swap antivirus from
AVG to McAfee earlier this year, but had it disabled (at least, through
McAfee's menu) during the 4-5 attempts last night.
Try more tonight. The biggest pain is that it takes 30-40 minutes to get to
the failure point; started around 9:30 p.m. and finally quit trying around
1:30 a.m.. Usually I don't have too much of a problem with Windows machines,
or can at least figure out what's going on. This one's odd.
K. Becker
>
> Bye,
> Freudi
>