"Please free 53.93mb and click Retry"


January 18th, 2009

I got this nice message when installing drivers on my brother's old-but-newly-formatted machine. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 (runs Athlon64 CPUs), the installers were from Gigabyte's website, and used the InstallShield wrapper. I had a fresh WinXP SP1a install, and this message appeared despite the >100gb free space.

The solution is a little strange: enable compatibility mode and set it to NT4 mode. The installer should get to the main wizard screen now, and then fail because it thinks your OS is too old. Now, disable compatibility mode, and re-run the installer. Voila!

Comments (3)

3 Responses to “"Please free 53.93mb and click Retry"”

  1. edogawaconan on January 18, 2009 3:14 pm

    ...why are you using driver for gigabyte website o_O
    and XP SP1.
    Lulz.

  2. Alex on January 19, 2009 11:08 pm

    'for'?
    I also have no patience looking for a newer CD that will work with a given product key when Windows Update works so well.

  3. edogawaconan on January 20, 2009 12:06 am

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