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re: Windows 2000 SP4/IE6 SP1 Setup Fails Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 12:01 pm Posted by geek9pm (1030 messages posted) You can order the SP-4 on CD from Microsoft. However, in your case it would seem that either you have a bad internet connection or part of your system is failing. Do you have another computer you can use? Can you install Windows 2000 on the spare computer? If so, try the SP4 download on the spare computer. While SP-4 is an improvement, it does not correct some types of flaws in your current Win 2000 installation. For example, if the registry is a mess, SP-4 does not clean it up. Also, slight defect in the RAM can cause strange things. Geek9pm [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows 2000 SP4/IE6 SP1 Setup Fails Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 8:10 pm Posted by ngkh (2 messages posted) Following is the svcpack.log generated from failure to install SP4; hopefully it'll help to solve the problem: Service Pack started with following command line: *** DoInstallation: CleanPFR failed: 0x2 *** IncludeDirectoryIdFromInfSection: No DirId found for: DontRemoveOnUninst.DirId *** FetchSourceURL: SetupOpenInfFile Failed to open file: c:\8ae0d\i386\update\update.url *** DoInstallation: FetchSourceURL for c:\8ae0d\i386\update\update.inf Failed *** BuildCabinetManifest:SetupOpenInfFile failed with error INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE *** AnalyzePhaseZero used 10 ticks *** DoInstallation:SetupOpenInfFile for OldUninstallInf file C:\WINNT\$NtServicePackUninstall$\spuninst\spuninst.inf not found: 0x3 *** CreateUninstall = 1,Directory = C:\WINNT\$NtServicePackUninstall$ *** AnalyzePhaseOne: used 154613 ticks *** AnalyzePhaseTwo used 2954 ticks *** AnalyzePhaseThree used 0 ticks *** AnalyzePhaseFive used 0 ticks *** AnalyzePhaseSix used 821 ticks *** AnalyzeComponents used 158418 ticks *** Downloading 0 files *** bPatchMode = FALSE *** Inventory complete: ReturnStatus=0, 165758 ticks *** Num Ticks for invent : 165768 *** Condtional Load of section AutoUpdate.Reg.Install.Condition suceeded *** Allocation size of drive C: is 4096 bytes, free space = 4104257536 bytes *** Drive C: free 3914MB req: 5MB w/uninstall 278MB *** Num Ticks for download : 60828 *** CabinetBuild complete *** Num Ticks for Cabinet build : 0 *** Starting process: msiinst.exe /delayrebootq *** Working directory: C:\WINNT\System32\msiinst.tmp *** Return Code = 2148204800 *** DoInstallation:RunInfProcesses Failed *** Service Pack 4 Setup encountered an error: An error in updating your system has occurred. *** VerifySize: Unable to verify size: Source = NULL: c:\winnt\oem6.cat *** An error in updating your system has occurred. *** Message displayed to the user: An error in updating your system has occurred. *** User Input: OK *** On Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 12:01 pm, geek9pm wrote: >You can order the SP-4 on CD from Microsoft. >However, in your case it would seem that either you have a bad internet connection >or part of your system is failing. >Do you have another computer you can use? Can you install Windows 2000 on the spare >computer? If so, try the SP4 download on the spare computer. >While SP-4 is an improvement, it does not correct some types of flaws in your current >Win 2000 installation. For example, if the registry is a mess, SP-4 does not clean >it up. Also, slight defect in the RAM can cause strange things. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows 2000 SP4/IE6 SP1 Setup Fails Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 9:25 pm Posted by geek9pm (1030 messages posted) Hmm, maybe somebody else can figure that out. I would just throw up my hands and start over. I have worked on PC software and hardware for many years and I do not have the intellect to trace out everything without the aid of additional resources. So I would try everything on another system until I find a pattern. Often the first or second error you get is the clue and the rest is just trash. I did a Google on 'CleanPFR failed SP 4' and got lots of hits. Here is a good one: tomshardware.com Installing SP4 Also, the microsoft.com has some articles on this problem. Geek9pm [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows 2000 SP4/IE6 SP1 Setup Fails Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 6:03 pm Posted by Jonathan Klein (1 messages posted) Hello, I thought I'd add to this thread in case anyone else runs into the same problem. Although it's quite possible nobody will ever read this post. I was experiencing exactly the same problem as described in the initial post to this thread ie: an error message indicating corrup files in SP4, then digital signature errors when trying to install SP4 from a downloaded file. My initial attempts to install SP4 followed the following sequence, starting from a freshly reformatted hard drive. 1. Installed W2K Pro. 2. Started Windows update on-line. Windows updated indicated several critical updates, as expected. Internet Explorer SP1 was shown at the top of the list, W2K SP4 was second on the list. Feeling I should simply start at the top of the list I installed IE SP1. 3. Next I installed W2K SP4, and ran into the problems mentioned. After a hell of a time trying to solve this problem and after reading this thread amongst other internet research, I resolved to re-install W2K and change the sequence of installation. The sequence I followed was: 1. Installed W2K Pro. 2. Installed W2K SP4. This worked ... thank God. So it seems the problem has something to do with IE being updated to SP1 prior to W2K SP4 being installed. In my situation I was fortunate to be starting from a newly formatted drive, so it wasn't a major hassle to re-install W2K after my initial failed attempt. In the situation where you have an existing installation of W2K with all your files, programs etc, I don't know how to work around the problem without reinstalling W2K. Perhaps one could try uninstalling IE then installing W2K SP4. Further to this post here is the full sequence of steps that I followed to get W2K installed on my old TP 600E laptop. Note, I tried to install as much as possible from files rather than from the internet as I experienced problems with viruses getting on my computer before the virus protection was installed and fully configured. 1. Installed W2K Pro (from floppies & CD) 2. Installed W2K SP4 (from file) 3. Installed W2K SP4 Rollup 1 (from file) 4. Installed Ethernet PCMCIA Card 5. Installed IE6 SP1 (ie6setup.exe was started from a file, but the rest of the installation requires an internet connection to download the rest of the install files. It isn't possible, as far as I know, to get a single install file for the entire installation. I even tried MS Article ID: 257249 but it didn't work. Connected internet only during download portion of install to minimize any virus infiltration.) 6. Installed Update for IE6 SP1 (from file) 7. Installed Avira Antivir - Free version (putting settings for maximum detection, and early detection during boot-up.) 8. Updated virus definitions (again kept internet connection on only when required to download updates. 9. Performed full system scan. (In fact a virus named DLOADER-TP, lsass.exe, was on my computer. Deleted it.) 10. Installed Windows Update. (after reconnecting internet) 11. Allowed Windows updated to download and perform updates. (This takes a very long time, like about 2 hours, and a several re-boots throughout the sequence. I recommend just letting it run to completion. I was paranoid that if I cut it off or tried to do something else on the computer at the same time it would screw it up. So I just let it run and it finished with no hitches.) Maybe somebody can use this sequence in the future if they are doing a W2K installation. But as W2K is practically antique software now, I think this post will more than likely sit on a server somewhere, never to be viewed. -Jonathan Klein On Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 9:25 pm, geek9pm wrote: >Hmm, maybe somebody else can figure that out. I would just throw up my hands and >start over. I have worked on PC software and hardware for many years and I do not >have the intellect to trace out everything without the aid of additional resources. >So I would try everything on another system until I find a pattern. Often the first >or second error you get is the clue and the rest is just trash. I did a Google on >'CleanPFR failed SP 4' and got lots of hits. Here is a good one: >tomshardware.com >Installing SP4 >Also, the microsoft.com has some articles on this problem. > >Geek9pm [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum