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mike - 31 Aug 2003 06:25 GMT

Hope someone can help.

Windows installation of the service pack 1 repeatedly
fails. The error message says that my drive has not enough
room to store 45 Mbytes. The problem is that the patch
chose an multipurpose small drive with a lower drive letter
than the one that the operating system is installed on it
to store the 45M + file swap area.

configuration

c: is 9mbytes
d: is 10Gbytes, windows installed here

the patch is trying to swap into an area of about 45 Mbytes
in that c: drive when it is 9 Mbytes large. How do I get
it to swap on d:

Thanks
Mike

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Jupiter Jones [MVP] - 31 Aug 2003 06:41 GMT

Mike;
You don't.
Microsoft has stated there is no workaround for this.
You need about 30mb on C drive.

You have a few options.
1. Do nothing and stay without SP1.
2. Use a 3rd party partitioning application to change the partition
sizes.
http://www.bootitng.com/
http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/
Data should be safe in either case, back-up important data just in
case.
3. Clean Installation (destroys all data) ensuring C drive is larger.

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> Hope someone can help.
>
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> Thanks
> Mike

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