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From: Michael on 22 Mar 2007 07:24
WHAT THE H[AE]CK ?

I can't believe this :)

Because of your last post I went to check PreInstall, and as I said it was
just a file instead of a directory.
Then I thought I'd see what would happen when I removed it. So I renamed it
to Preinstall.old, ran the upgrade, and... whaddayaknow... It just ran
flawlessly.
This must be the weirdest Windows problem I've had in a while :)

MowGreen, thank you very, very much for the input; I really appreciate it!
Now I'm gonna run all updates I can get -- YaY! :)

Michael.

-- Ticket closed -- :D

"Michael" schreef in bericht news:460265ca$0$326$e4fe514c(a)news.xs4all.nl...
> > Can you check to ensure that there is a spmsg.dll.ref located in
> > C:\WINDOWS\System32\PreInstall\WinSE\wxp_x86_0413_v1\
> No I can't :)
> When I browse into C:\Windows\System32, there is a PreInstall there, but
it
> is a file (!) not a directory.
>
> > Is this XP Home or Pro
> It's the Home edition.
>
> > how is the system partitioned [what is the drive
> > letter where %windir% is located]
> The system is partitioned as follows:
> 1. 21 GB FAT32 partition, bootable, Windows is installed here. In
> windows, this is C:
> 2. 9 GB EXT3 partition, Linux is installed here (not visible in
Windows)
> 3. 10GB FAT32 partition for my personal documents I want to share
> between OSes, in Windows, this is D:
> 4. The rest (approx 1GB) is the Linux swap partition, not visible in
> Windows
> Windows is installed on C: (when I run %windir% I get thrown into
> C:\Windows).
>
> >AND is SP2 installed correctly, Michael ?
> Errr... no. SP1 is installed as it was on the CD. I figured SP2 will come
up
> in the auto-updates, like before, but the problem is that I can't do any
> updates until this is fixed (see the problem here :D)
>
> Michael.
>


From: MowGreen [MVP] on 22 Mar 2007 21:32
Dude ... Nice work !! You're mowst welcome. Have some suds on me and get
those updates installed :)


MowGreen [MVP 2003-2007]
===============
*-343-* FDNY
Never Forgotten
===============


Michael wrote:

> WHAT THE H[AE]CK ?
>
> I can't believe this :)
>
> Because of your last post I went to check PreInstall, and as I said it was
> just a file instead of a directory.
> Then I thought I'd see what would happen when I removed it. So I renamed it
> to Preinstall.old, ran the upgrade, and... whaddayaknow... It just ran
> flawlessly.
> This must be the weirdest Windows problem I've had in a while :)
>
> MowGreen, thank you very, very much for the input; I really appreciate it!
> Now I'm gonna run all updates I can get -- YaY! :)
>
> Michael.
>
> -- Ticket closed -- :D
>
> "Michael" schreef in bericht news:460265ca$0$326$e4fe514c(a)news.xs4all.nl...
>
>>>Can you check to ensure that there is a spmsg.dll.ref located in
>>>C:\WINDOWS\System32\PreInstall\WinSE\wxp_x86_0413_v1\
>>
>>No I can't :)
>>When I browse into C:\Windows\System32, there is a PreInstall there, but
>
> it
>
>>is a file (!) not a directory.
>>
>>
>>>Is this XP Home or Pro
>>
>>It's the Home edition.
>>
>>
>>>how is the system partitioned [what is the drive
>>>letter where %windir% is located]
>>
>>The system is partitioned as follows:
>> 1. 21 GB FAT32 partition, bootable, Windows is installed here. In
>>windows, this is C:
>> 2. 9 GB EXT3 partition, Linux is installed here (not visible in
>
> Windows)
>
>> 3. 10GB FAT32 partition for my personal documents I want to share
>>between OSes, in Windows, this is D:
>> 4. The rest (approx 1GB) is the Linux swap partition, not visible in
>>Windows
>>Windows is installed on C: (when I run %windir% I get thrown into
>>C:\Windows).
>>
>>
>>>AND is SP2 installed correctly, Michael ?
>>
>>Errr... no. SP1 is installed as it was on the CD. I figured SP2 will come
>
> up
>
>>in the auto-updates, like before, but the problem is that I can't do any
>>updates until this is fixed (see the problem here :D)
>>
>>Michael.
>>
>
>
>
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