Windows: Recovering from a Service Pack Failure
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If you ever had a bad experience with service pack installation on Windows OS, you know how is it frustrating to have a half-working system which leads only to one solution - reinstalling the whole damn thing 
I was recently installing Service Pack 2 on Windows 2003, and the drive C ran out of space :/ I had 600Mb which is plenty for the post packs, but not Service Packs. When the setup application cursed successfully died, it did not clean after itself, leaving me with 60 Mb of space 
I ran disk clean up utility, but it did not clean the mess, drive C still had only 60 Mb of free space…
After some digging I found that all the logs for Service packs will be written in C:\Windows\Svcpack.log file, which is a good start. And all the downloaded files were in c:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download\ folder!
After removing all the files and folders in that directory, I suddenly gained 2.4Gb of free space!!!
The moral of the story: keep c:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download\ clean after any install 
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Filed under: Windows OS on April 3rd, 2007 • 403 Views
