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Can't install SP2 because lack of space on a secondary drive?

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Vertigo-1

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Ok...I have one of those HP computers that have a secondary partition with all its recovery stuff installed on it. SP2 apparently is picking up that partition and saying I'm lacking disc space when its the C drive it should be worrying about, which has tons of space. Any way around this? Speaking of which, isn't there a way to disable the whole "almost out of space" messages that pop up when a drive gets low on space? I don't think the two are related but...who knows.
 
Do you actually have an XP CD? If you do then suggest you slipstream sp2 onto it then use the slipstreamed CD to perform a repair install. All your programs and data should remain unscathed.
 
No I don't actually...short of formatting that partition, which I'd really rather not do, I guess there's no other way around this?
 
HP Pavillions don't come with a CD for Windows. It's expected that the recovery partition will be used to reinstall windows.
XPSP2 installer puts the temporary install files on a partition other than the Windows partition that has the most space. I've never installed SP2 on a machine with only one partition before, so I don't know if that will work. Try removing the mount point for the recovery partition (using the Computer Management Administrative Tool - the section to look at is Drive Management). Then install SP2 and then put the mount point back.
BTW: the mount point isn't necessary for Restorer to work, as it is booted from BIOS, not the primary partition.
 
I ran into the same basic problem with a service pack 1 install. It was not a system restore partition, but a small partition they had created by accident and did not remove when they installed XP. I changed a handful of location entries in the registry, and it did not help. I did not find a simple solution. My guess is the location is built into the service pack scripts or inf. I ended up expanding the first partition so it had enough room to extract and run. If you have some sort of partitioning program, you could try and change that little partition to "hidden". That may fool it.
 
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