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Office97 SR2b

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by don christner

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When trying to install Office97 SR2b, I get a popup windows that says "Setup could not find a drive with 55660 KB free disk space to install the program. Please free up some space ...."

I have over 24GB free on my drive, so that's not a problem. I have run the SR2chk and it says I can update to SR2b. The system is a Dell 4550, WinXP, 256MB RAM, ordered without Office on it. I need this system to have Office 97 Pro on it for compatability reasons with an Access97 database.

Office97, and SR1 went on without a problem. Any help for the SR2b failure?

Don

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by ann777

Make sure you have disabled your anti-virus software before trying this update. Then try again. If it fails again, then see if you can apply the Access97 patch:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=7E82EF88-52EC-4A8F-8BB2-8B06D6CB668D

(Please remove any embedded spaces from the above link when pasting it into your browser).

by ann777

You might try disabling (temporarily renaming that startup folder) everything in your startup folder as well as any TSRs.

by don christner

Your answer didn't really help me, but I appreciate the effort. The reason I couldn't run the update is because Dell has a 35MB FAT partition before the 24GB NTFS partition and somehow when running SR2b from the CD, the program would only see the small FAT partition. I got around it by copying the SR2b to the C drive and running from there.

Thanks again,
Don

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