Hi all,

Could someone please help me out, i have been trying to install the august updates and for some unknown reason the install failed each time error given is "Failed to Install Catalog Files".

I understand that this may be due to the fact that i have installed over 150 hotfixes????

Have also tryed to install via windows update, - failed to install all updates..

Just to see what happens, try the following link:

http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/

and follow those steps if u havent already.

Just a thought,

Nath

I get the same **** problem, if you find out how to fix it please let me know.

@it_ybd

Thanks for the info, but no did not work!....

From what ive read, the problem here is not WGA. If it is, let us know ...

A problem related to Catalogs can be something missing where it indicates what needs to be installed.

Have you removed anything with nLite? If you did, attach you last session.

Where you able to install updates with that current XP installation before?

Cya buddy!

@Gouki

Yes i have installed updates for the last 18 months with no issues, problem only happed this month, installed my may ghost image, and then updates started to install 1 - 12 ok then 13 - 15 failed....

Well, I dont think it can be because of the CAT limit. However, from what you have said, why dont you make a new UA XP CD with RyanVM lastest pack (1.2.2b) slipstreamed and thn just download the updates from July and August.

If you dont to use RyanVM pack, just use Astalavista pack. It is completly updated.

Just go to the link on my sig.

Edited August 16, 200521 yr by Gouki

Many thanks for your suggestions, but i have toshiba tecra laptop, and i am unable to make an ua cd- as all i have is a restore cd from toshiba.

mmm - not sure what to do know?

Many thanks for your suggestions, but i have toshiba tecra laptop, and i am unable to make an ua cd- as all i have is a restore cd from toshiba.

mmm - not sure what to do know?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Well, you could buy a WindowsXP Profissional CD and then "customize it" in you own way.

Since you only have a Restore CD dont know what you can do except buying a XP CD.

any ideas guys?

I had these errors when installing IE7 Beta 1

My solution was to remake a new nLited CD

My Install was an nLite i must have removed something i shouldnt have

I made a new one off a basic XP Sp2 CD and every update/IE7 Beta worked

Many thanks for your suggestion, i dont have a windows xp cd, just a toshiba recover dvd set.

Oh, well it looks like i am going to have to re-install everything from scatch...

i had the same problem. i've solved it ( it worked for me ). in my system32/catroot folder i have 2 other folders named { a long code } and { another long code }. in the second folder i have a "TimeStamp" file with no extension. if i delete it, the error u mentioned appears, if the file is there, i can install the updates. be shore that in any {....} folder u have the timestamp file. if not , i'll send u mine

and another thing: try to delete some KBXXXXXX.cat files from the system32/CatRoot. it may be becouse u passed the limit of the 150 cat files

Edited August 17, 200521 yr by surcix

@surcix

Many thanks for your suggestion, i have deleted about 14 of the Kbxxxxxx.cab files and i do have the timestamp files also, but still no joy?

@surcix

Many thanks for your suggestion, i have deleted about 14 of the Kbxxxxxx.cab files and i do have the timestamp files also, but still no joy?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Same for me. I can't install the last 3 hotfixes for Microsoft Office XP on my recently finished windows install. I have tried deleting some of the cat files but it still doesn't work, they always fail to install.

This is with ryanvm 1.3.0 beta pack and all addons installed.