win xp sp2 space requirement

[Ismo]

Is it really so that sp2 requires an incredible amount of hard disk space? I
have nearly 2 GB free space on drive C: before installation, and less than
300 MB after the installation. The total size of drive C: is 9 GB. Is there
anything I can do apart from not installing the sp2?

[Gordon]

Ismo wrote:
> Is it really so that sp2 requires an incredible amount of hard disk space? I
> have nearly 2 GB free space on drive C: before installation, and less than
> 300 MB after the installation. The total size of drive C: is 9 GB. Is there
> anything I can do apart from not installing the sp2?

No it's not. There's something VERY wrong there.

[Peter]

System requirements for SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/sysreqs.mspx

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Home SP2
P4 dual HT @ 3.0ghz, 1.0gb RAM, 160gb HD
"Ismo" > wrote in message
...
> Is it really so that sp2 requires an incredible amount of hard disk space?
> I
> have nearly 2 GB free space on drive C: before installation, and less than
> 300 MB after the installation. The total size of drive C: is 9 GB. Is
> there
> anything I can do apart from not installing the sp2?

[Nepatsfan]

Here's a site with some suggestions on items that can be safely
removed after applying SP2:

http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=7265

Keep in mind that these are suggestion of things that can be done
once you've decided that you will not need to uninstall SP2.

--
Nepatsfan
"Ismo" > wrote in message
...
> Is it really so that sp2 requires an incredible amount of hard
> disk space? I
> have nearly 2 GB free space on drive C: before installation,
> and less than
> 300 MB after the installation. The total size of drive C: is 9
> GB. Is there
> anything I can do apart from not installing the sp2?

[milsabords]

When doing a fresh install, you should make sure that you have a fair amount
of free space in the system partition. Even though the minimum requirements
are reasonable, the number and size of files swells rapidly: windows
updates, system restore, temporary files, programs which by default install
into Program Files, logs, Documents and Settings, Prefetch ...

Large disk drives have become affordable!

In ,
Ismo > typed:
> Is it really so that sp2 requires an incredible amount of hard disk
> space? I have nearly 2 GB free space on drive C: before installation,
> and less than 300 MB after the installation. The total size of drive
> C: is 9 GB. Is there anything I can do apart from not installing the
> sp2?

[Plato]

=?Utf-8?B?SXNtbw==?= wrote:
>
> Is it really so that sp2 requires an incredible amount of hard disk space? I
> have nearly 2 GB free space on drive C: before installation, and less than
> 300 MB after the installation. The total size of drive C: is 9 GB. Is there
> anything I can do apart from not installing the sp2?

It was a mistake to set up a C: as only 9 gig. MS suggests that free
space on c: always be a 10 gig or more. So you are WAY offline.







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http://www.bootdisk.com/

[Gordon]

Plato wrote:
> =?Utf-8?B?SXNtbw==?= wrote:
>
>>Is it really so that sp2 requires an incredible amount of hard disk space? I
>>have nearly 2 GB free space on drive C: before installation, and less than
>>300 MB after the installation. The total size of drive C: is 9 GB. Is there
>>anything I can do apart from not installing the sp2?
>
>
> It was a mistake to set up a C: as only 9 gig. MS suggests that free
> space on c: always be a 10 gig or more. So you are WAY offline.
>

And where do they say that?

[Al Smith]

> Is it really so that sp2 requires an incredible amount of hard disk space? I
> have nearly 2 GB free space on drive C: before installation, and less than
> 300 MB after the installation. The total size of drive C: is 9 GB. Is there
> anything I can do apart from not installing the sp2?

You really need to buy a new larger hard drive. Nine gigs isn't
big enough nowadays. And yes, XP is a space hog.

[Rock]

Ismo wrote:

> Is it really so that sp2 requires an incredible amount of hard disk space? I
> have nearly 2 GB free space on drive C: before installation, and less than
> 300 MB after the installation. The total size of drive C: is 9 GB. Is there
> anything I can do apart from not installing the sp2?

The hard disk space requirements for Windows XP Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=837783

Pre-Install, Install, Cleaning Up Afterwards
http://forum.aumha.org/viewforum.php?f=45