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- DOCUMENT:Q105133 02-NOV-1993 [W_NT]
- TITLE :Insufficient Disk Space for US Service Pack 1 for Windows NT
- PRODUCT :Windows NT
- PROD/VER:3.10
- OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
- KEYWORDS:
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- The information in this article applies to:
-
- - Microsoft Windows NT operating system version 3.1
- - Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1
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-
- SUMMARY
- =======
-
- When you run UPDATE.EXE from US Service Pack 1 for Windows NT and
- Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1, the update program does not
- check the drive that Windows NT is installed on for free space. This
- can result in a critical error which causes the update to fail. At
- this point, the only option is to increase the free space on the drive
- by removing files or moving files to another drive, and running the
- update a second time.
-
- MORE INFORMATION
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-
- The amount of space required by the update varies from system to
- system, because only those files that are already installed on the
- system will actually be replaced. The maximum amount of files to be
- copied is just under 12 MB of free disk space on the partition
- containing the %SYSTEMROOT%\SYSTEM32 directory. There must also be
- enough space (about 150K) on the boot drive to replace NTLDR. Note
- that this free space is only needed during the update process itself.
- After the update program is finished, the system restarts and replaces
- the old copies of the files with the updated versions. At this point,
- all disk space used by the update program will be free.
-
- If the update program does run out of disk space when it is copying
- files, you will receive the following critical error message:
-
- A critical error has occurred
-
- The destination disk is full
-
- This error prevents Setup from continuing. You can either retry the
- operation or quit Setup. However, the software is not completely
- installed. If you quit, therefore, you need to repeat the Setup
- process from the beginning.
-
- You will be given two options at this point: Retry and Exit. If you
- choose Retry, the update attempts the file copy again and returns the
- same critical error. If you choose Exit, Setup will stop. At this
- point, you need to free up disk space by moving or deleting files.
-
- Additional reference words: 3.10
- KBCategory:
- KBSubCategory: winnt
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