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SUMMARYWhen you run UPDATE.EXE from US Service Pack 1 for Windows NT and Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1, the update program does not check the drive that Windows NT is installed on for free space. This can result in a critical error which causes the update to fail. At this point, the only option is to increase the free space on the drive by removing files or moving files to another drive, and running the update a second time. MORE INFORMATION
The amount of space required by the update varies from system to
system, because only those files that are already installed on the
system will actually be replaced. The maximum amount of files to be
copied is just under 12 MB of free disk space on the partition
containing the %SYSTEMROOT%\SYSTEM32 directory. There must also be
enough space (about 150K) on the boot drive to replace NTLDR. Note
that this free space is only needed during the update process itself.
After the update program is finished, the system restarts and replaces
the old copies of the files with the updated versions. At this point,
all disk space used by the update program will be free.
This error prevents Setup from continuing. You can either retry the operation or quit Setup. However, the software is not completely installed. If you quit, therefore, you need to repeat the Setup process from the beginning. You will be given two options at this point: Retry and Exit. If you choose Retry, the update attempts the file copy again and returns the same critical error. If you choose Exit, Setup will stop. At this point, you need to free up disk space by moving or deleting files. Additional query words: prodnt
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