Problem installing XP SP1

[nmcglennon]

I am having problems installing Service Pack 1a for Win XP. I've done this a million times before, but this situation is different.
When I formatted the harddrive something went wrong and made an 8MB partitiion as c:\ and a 37.25GB boot partition as d:\ Naturally Windows installed in the boot sector ( D:\ ). This is a friend's computer and I am too lazy to reinstall everything (again).

Which presents me a problem, when I download the XP service pack and extract it, it errors out during the extraction saying it couldn't extract it all into the C:\ drive. And thus installation of the pack isn't successful. NO OTHER SOFTWARE VENDORS EXCEPT MICROSOFT HAVE HAD THIS PROBLEM!! God I hate them.

Anyone have any ideas? Maybe a command lines that will etract it to a specified location?

 

[SilverBack]

I would be easyier just to repartition the drive and start again.

Start up the XP install routine from CD, when it comes up and says it's found another operating system choose to delete both partitions.
It only involves three steps and is painless.

 

[spyordie007]

servicepackfilename -x

This will prompt you for the extraction location. After it's extracted run \update\update.exe from the directory you extracted it to.

-Erik

 

[kamper]

I was going to suggest resizing the partitions but that would take a long time if D: was anywhere near full, but spy's solution is obviously much better.