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My HD is partitioned so that I have C drive at 13.9GB (only 1.5GB availabe) and D Drive 98.2GB with 18GB available. When I try to

install SP2 it tells me first that I am running out of space and I have tried to clear everything off the C drive possible with all apps

installed on the D Drive. I am wondering if I will be stuck moving my partition which will probably cost me 40 bucks for software. I wish

they gave me more room of the C Drive I dont know why they made it so tight ! Can anyone help with this ?

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Also apart the fact your whole disk is almost full, having more than 12Gig on the C drive when "all the apps are on D:" raises some questions about what's really filling that partition.

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I second Tarun's recommendation of Ccleaner!

Perhaps you have a heap of stuff in your My Docs or on your desktop. Both these are on the Windows drive by default (C in your case).

There is a nifty freeware app that can help you see what files are taking up all the space. Have a look at WinDirStat here: http://windirstat.info/ Its also available as a portable app (runs off USB etc) here: http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/windirstat_portable

Back up anything important before you start doing stuff like this I reckon!!

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My HD is partitioned so that I have C drive at 13.9GB (only 1.5GB availabe) and D Drive 98.2GB with 18GB available. When I try to

install SP2 it tells me first that I am running out of space and I have tried to clear everything off the C drive possible with all apps

installed on the D Drive. I am wondering if I will be stuck moving my partition which will probably cost me 40 bucks for software. I wish

they gave me more room of the C Drive I dont know why they made it so tight ! Can anyone help with this ?

Here's what I would do:

If you have Hibernation enabled and/or system restore turned on, you can try to disable those to free up some space.

Check desktop and My Docs folder for large files and move them.

Run disk cleanup and CCleaner to remove unneed/unwanted files.

Last resort, move swap file to the D partition.

I agree, C partition should be larger. If you started with RTM XP, then updates alone can cause just the operating system files alone to occupy much of this space.

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One other issue could be service pack extraction - it extracts the service pack to a temporary location (usually on C:, if that's the boot volume) and then runs update.exe from the temp location. You may have better luck extracting the service pack using the /x:<path to temp directory on D:> parameter, and then manually run update.exe from the extracted location.

Also, I second tarun's suggestion - using SP3 is a better choice at this point than using SP2.

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