[Help!]HD spaces lost while SP1 installation failed.
What a foolish thing I've done!
While the installation of Visual Studio 2005 SP1 lost response for a VERY long time(deal to the lack of space of driver C, Although I managed to gather 2.6g on Disk C for the installtion and 1.7g for SP1, the program eat up them at the very end ) , I canceled the installation but there is nothing happened but a messagebox with a progress bar with no responce.
Then, I restarted my laptop though taskmgr and only to find those disk spaces had lost!!!
Anyone have some good ideas to find out my disk spaces? Come and SAVE ME!!!
Thank you very much in advanced!
I'm on XP Home SP2 + VS2005
# 1 Re: [Help!]HD spaces lost while SP1 installation failed.
You can try running 'chkdsk /f c:' at the command line. Also, you might try deleting the installation directory.
Viggy
# 2 Re: [Help!]HD spaces lost while SP1 installation failed.
Not even close:
Installation Requirements:
A copy of one of the supported Visual Studio 2005 products must be installed on the target computer.
Microsoft Windows Installer 3.1 or later installed on the target computer.
192MB of RAM required. 256MB or greater is recommended.
Hard disk space required: 6.2GB
This requirement can increase substantially if multiple Visual Studio 2005 products are installed on the target computer.
# 3 Re: [Help!]HD spaces lost while SP1 installation failed.
With a FULL "Team Suite" + a "Professional" edition on the same machine, I have seen the (temporary) HD requirements approach 10GB... :eek:
Thank goodness 1TB is well under $1000 these days...
(who wants to race to 1 PetaByte ;) )
# 4 Re: [Help!]HD spaces lost while SP1 installation failed.
Viggy:
Thank you very much, Viggy. Chkdsk find no error, But I think the file system has crashed. Because:
my total spaces on disk C = spaces of all files + 2G(lost) + free spaces
my total spaces on disk D = spaces of all files + 1.2G(lost) + free spaces
And at the same time other partitions don't have these lost portions.
EDIT:
I am sorry that I forgot to show system files and "spaces of
all files" is miscaculated. So, I've found those spaces on disk
D. They were consumed by a directory named Config.msi.
But, I still can't find these spaces on disk C. I am sure the
file system did n't crashed. The question now is what
happened on system volume during the installation? Where
are those cache files?
dglienna:
I should read these notes earlier. Thank you.
TheCPUWizard :
You are always so kind! I can find you whenever I was in trouble. I just can't imagine a 400M+ patch can consume 6G+(even more as 10G) spaces. BTW: My laptop only has 60G HD spaces.
I am still trying to find out the lost disk spaces, every suggestion is wellcomed.
# 5 Re: [Help!]HD spaces lost while SP1 installation failed.
I just can't imagine a 400M+ patch can consume 6G+(even more as 10G) spaces.
Why not? While the patch itself may be small, the installation may (probably does) take a backup of your existing installation before it proceeds to patch.
So, it is very possible that a tiny patch (a lot tinier than 400 MB) needs a huge disk free space to be available.
Run disk cleanup. ;)
# 6 Re: [Help!]HD spaces lost while SP1 installation failed.
Why not? While the patch itself may be small, the installation may (probably does) take a backup of your existing installation before it proceeds to patch.
So, it is very possible that a tiny patch (a lot tinier than 400 MB) needs a huge disk free space to be available.
Run disk cleanup. ;)
Thx, found 800M+ through Msizap.exe. But there are some error messages like this:
Removing orphaned cached files.
Error opening 4BA63F3652892944987FD0BC199EA59D\InstallProperties subkey of Pr
oducts key for S-1-5-18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening DAA7204E8674B0C4BACA641710598092\InstallProperties subkey of Pr
oducts key for S-1-5-18 user. Error: 2.
Removed file: C:\WINDOWS\Installer\785943.mst
Removed file: C:\WINDOWS\Installer\127056.msp
Removed file: C:\WINDOWS\Installer\c80245.msp
FAILED to clear all data.
What does Error 2 stand for?
