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Sp4 installed (2nd time around)

First time I tried to install Service Pack4 it complained it hadn't been able to do it and to either rollback or continue, rebooting into safe mode and recovering from the emergency repair disk.

At this point I had a horrible feeling it was going to be a long lunchbreak! A quick search on google came up with someone else who had a similar problem. Looking in svcpack.log I found the error messages
"An error in updating your system has occurred.
Select 'OK' to undo the changes that have been made, or select 'Cancel' to quit. If you select 'Cancel', your system will be left in a partially updated state and may not work correctly.
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Message displayed to the user: An error in updating your system has occurred.
Select 'OK' to undo the changes that have been made, or select 'Cancel' to quit. If you select 'Cancel', your system will be left in a partially updated state and may not work correctly
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User Input: CANCEL
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Service Pack 4 installation did not complete.
Windows 2000 has been partially updated and may not work properly. It is recommended that you use your Emergency Repair disk to repair your system. To do this, insert the Windows 2000 Setup Boot Disk into the floppy drive, restart your computer, and then select the Emergency Repair option.
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Message displayed to the user: Service Pack 4 installation did not complete.
Windows 2000 has been partially updated and may not work properly. It is recommended that you use your Emergency Repair disk to repair your system. To do this, insert the Windows 2000 Setup Boot Disk into the floppy drive, restart your computer, and then select the Emergency Repair option.
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User Input: OK

In the end I took a gamble, stopped all the extra services, exchange, norton anti-virus etc, cleared out the temp dirs and reapplied, this time saving the uninstall files onto a drive with more disk space (just in case - although i had 600MB free which should have been ok). This time it worked. One reboot and I'm running sp4...now to see if it's fixed the slow tape drive problem.