error=0xfffffbfe

[Guest mj]

I have problem with SP2 that failed on initial installation and currently

cannot be reinstalled or uninstalled. I have tried all steps in KB822798 with

no success.

This is the end of the uninstall log-spuninst.log:

88.015: PFE1: Failed to CreateRemoteThread error=0x8

88.015: PFE2: PFE1 failed.

88.015: PFE2: Not avoiding Per File Exceptions.

1013.859: InstallSingleCatalogFile: MyInstallCatalog failed for

Tmp.2.sp2.cat error=0xfffffbfe.

1013.859: DoPreUninstallWrapper: InstallCatalogFiles failed

1013.969: CreateProgressWizardAndDoUninstall: Uninstall Failure 0x2

Researching the error I found the KB925931.

I contacted Microsoft support but the response time is 24 hours and I need

the machine...

Is there a work around this "full database" stuff? It is hard for me to

imagine that MS did not release a fix for that... Win 2003 is suppose to be

ENT level server...

If Itry to manually install SP2 manually, I receive the following pop-up

error:

Failed to install catalog files. Tried all methods in KB822798 with no luck.

Thanks a lot, mj