Hi,
Has anyone come across this problem?
I have tried on several occasions to upgrade my Windows XP Pro to Service Pack 2 by using the downloaded distributable package rather than via Windows/Microsoft Update. I’m doing a clean install on a formatted drive, and I’d prefer to stay offline to avoid various nasties until I have SP2 in place and have the Windows Firewall running. I go online during my initial Windows install only long enough for activation.
I’ve tried a few times to use previously downloaded SP2 files, but I invariably get a message partway through the extraction that the file is corrupt. So I borrowed a Microsoft SP2 disk from work. It extracts fine, but then during the install process it always hangs up at some point saying that it can’t find a certain file from the temp folder set up. It’s always a different file, and frustratingly, I always see the file there in the temp folder. But the install process will not recognize it. Then as a final insult, the uninstall process leaves me with a message that it didn’t completely uninstall properly, and that Windows might be damaged. End result, I wipe the hard drive again, and start from scratch.
There is no problem with my hard drive that I can tell – it’s fine with everything else. I’d like to get SP2 installed so I can move forward and install the rest of my software. Any suggestions? Is there a way to do multiple extractions of the SP2 files, so if I get this problem again, there are other folders I can get the process to look at for whatever file is not installing properly at the time?
Many thanks!
John
(quad core extreme overclocked to 3.2, 10K hard drives, etc) so expect your time to be longer.
