"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message
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Still he did me a favour cos at least now I have a working system albeit
with a less then perfect 2.1gb hard drive with 967MB free space lol


Just ran the SP4 update from windowsupdate.microsoft.com and it failed with
a missing file and I had to roll back the installation. Then it reboot after
which scandisk ran and took its time to complete then Windows had to verify
free space which took more time.

After this it booted to desktop as per normal but I was worried that the
drive was failing for a while there. Maybe it ran scandisk becuase of the
changes due to partly installing SP4 then rolling it back.