Getting error "Not enough space on drive c:\" when I install SQL Eval2005 on XP(sp2)

I keep getting that error, yet I have 180GB of space. Is this because my drive is FAT32 and not NTSF? (Help)

There was an issue in SQL 2000 where if the free space on the disk was an exact multiple of 4gb, you'd get this issue...workaround was simply to create a dummy text-file or something that was a 101 mb in size or something so the free space wasn't a multiple of 4gb...see this KB:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301913/en-us

Not sure if may be still an issue here. FAT32 obviosly only supports files 4gb and smaller...

HTH,

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Actuaally now I have 177GB and converted my drive to NTSF yet still getting error.

Heres the sequence:

Reading contents of package.....

Checking package integrity....

Then bang the exact error next is "There is not enough space on c:\ drive to extract this package"

I quess there is somethig wrong with this package. I will ahve to download the images and guy a DVD burner on the weekend

I am really looking forward to loading this eval. Its too bad

If you have any other ideas pls let me know.

thanks

Eric

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There is a possiblility that during extraction of the files that even though you might have told the extraction utility to put your files onto specific partition, it will use the system environment variable that points to your TEMP space first, and then moves them to your selected folder. Try performing these steps:

- Open a command prompt

- Create a new temporary folder on a system drive that has at least 1GB of free space. For example, assume that's your D:\ drive

- Make a temporary folder in that drive

- Type this in the command window: set TEMP=D:\temp and then also: set TMP=D:\temp

Now try again, hopefully that will work...

|||I have the same problem when installing SQL2005 EVAL on Window XP service pack 2 machine. I only have one disk which is is C: drive and has 14.7 GB free space, and I have set TEMP and TMP variables to point to C:\temp. After all are set, the installation still failed with "Not enough space on Drive C:" What should I do next? Help please?
|||I have a 2 gig jump drive that I extracted the files to. That seemed to work fine. I guess it doesn't look to put them in a temp folder when you do that. If you can map a network drive and extract them there, that might work as well.