Unable to install KB4474419 on Win7 x64 Ultimate

[Super Starman]

Grateful...


Hopefully there's no partition resizing and MBR tomfoolery out of this at all cost, especially since it is happening to people who do not have a dual boot system. Anyways, Win7 Ultimate x64 is on the third partition of the drive its on for me, so even that would not help at all.

 

[jfitter]

Does anyone have any idea when Microsoft will fix their total screwup regarding the installation of KB4474419?
After an extensive survey of forums on the net it is clear that the fault lies with Microsoft. I have a dual boot computer which I use for research and development. It is not a trivial setup and system reinstallation and configuration is at least a month's work. I am not about to play around with the boot manager or partitions.
It baffles me why MS's update should concern itself with my boot manager or partitions.
I find this an ugly end to a long and happy relationship with MS, and a display of unprofessional behavior. As a long term professional user of MS products, I and I believe others, place our trust in MS that their update process will not harm our computers or otherwise make them unusable. We use these devices to make our living.
This trust is now broken and I think it about time MS admitted their fault and fixed the problem.

 

[monkeyfarts]

Does anyone have any idea when Microsoft will fix their total screwup regarding the installation of KB4474419?
After an extensive survey of forums on the net it is clear that the fault lies with Microsoft. I have a dual boot computer which I use for research and development. It is not a trivial setup and system reinstallation and configuration is at least a month's work. I am not about to play around with the boot manager or partitions.
It baffles me why MS's update should concern itself with my boot manager or partitions.
I find this an ugly end to a long and happy relationship with MS, and a display of unprofessional behavior. As a long term professional user of MS products, I and I believe others, place our trust in MS that their update process will not harm our computers or otherwise make them unusable. We use these devices to make our living.
This trust is now broken and I think it about time MS admitted their fault and fixed the problem.

So I do not have Windows 7 Ultimate but I'm on Windows 7 Home Premium dual booting with Linux. I finally managed to get the updates to install properly after looking at these forums for a week. All I had to do was to go into Windows 7 and under Disk Management right click the partition that has Windows installed on and click Mark Partition as Active. Updates went through even booting Windows in GRUB.

 

[Super Starman]

I'll wait and see what the moderator has to say about the CBS.zip, but if that does it...I guess I could try, it's not active by default? Also, I have Minitools Partition Wizard Technician Edition 11.3 or such, I rather do anything partition related there, I'm guessing I could be doing this.


Thanks for the tip,
but I'll wait for now, it's not an emergency until August..

 

[jfitter]

So I do not have Windows 7 Ultimate but I'm on Windows 7 Home Premium dual booting with Linux. I finally managed to get the updates to install properly after looking at these forums for a week. All I had to do was to go into Windows 7 and under Disk Management right click the partition that has Windows installed on and click Mark Partition as Active. Updates went through even booting Windows in GRUB.

Did not work for me. I marked the partition as active and Grub still worked so booting windows is not broken, however the update still fails.

I really did think Microsoft employed professional engineers. Seems I was mistaken. Amateurs all around. To break customer's computers with a faulty update is completely unacceptable. We make our living with these computers.

 

[Snick]

I'd recommend a Repair Install
View attachment Repair Install Instructions.docx

 

[Super Starman]

damnit

the CBS.zip didn't tell you anything?


I've installed the april updates fine, but I'll be going back to Linux Mint or Ubuntu MATE permanently if I can't get it to work before the August deadline. Which means a lot of data moving, formatting...thankfully I got a VPS where I can dump everything and download everything back, so in theory, I could give win7 its own partition and see what happens, but I won't be doing so until all avenues haven't been looked at. There's other things I have seen where people say they have succeeded in installing it, but that would mean that if it fails, reinstall would be mandatory. There's no way to make a backup right now, the C:\ partition is 530gb large, I got 3 1TB externals and they're 3/4 full, all stuff that goes back to the early '00s since I got cable modem way back in 1999 maybe even. If that means I'd have to buy another external drive...I'd have to get a pci to e-sata, usb 3.0 isn't fast enough.

 

[GoodEyeDeer999]

So I do not have Windows 7 Ultimate but I'm on Windows 7 Home Premium dual booting with Linux. I finally managed to get the updates to install properly after looking at these forums for a week. All I had to do was to go into Windows 7 and under Disk Management right click the partition that has Windows installed on and click Mark Partition as Active. Updates went through even booting Windows in GRUB.

The idea works for me and I simply provide further clarification.

I run Clover to dual boot (legacy boot) MacOS X (hackintosh) and Windows 7 on the same disk with MBR partitions. Initially marking Windows partition as Active caused me problem because the system failed to boot and I had to run Gparted to remove the 'active flag'. Then I remembered when I set up Clover to boot Windows, I needed to choose the System Reserved partition in order to work. So next I marked System Reserved partition (Windows) as Active and the system booted directly to Windows bypassing Clover. The update KB4474419 went through successfully and subsequently KB4493472 as well. Finally, I removed the active flag from the System Reserved partition and everything is back to normal with Clover menu coming up where I can choose to select Windows or MacOS. I didn't bother to change the MacOS partition back to Active as it doesn't seem to matter.

So in my case, it is a simple change without the risk of corrupting the boot loader already installed. Hope others may find it useful.

 

[Snick]

EasyBCD - NeoSmart Technologies to set up dual boot

 

[stinfast]

I wish to thank monkeyfarts and his post #23 for help in solving the issue on my PC.
Finally after lots of attempts since last March I succeeded to install KB4474419 on a Win 7 Pro x64 PC in dual boot with a Debian distro.
Me too with 'Failure configuring Windows updates. Reverting changes.' alert and 0x80004005 - E_FAIL Unspecified error
I found that moving the Active flag to the Win partition is the correct and, let me say, elegant solution (before this change the flag was on a Linux partition, because Linux was installed after Windows on my drive and so the flag went there).
There were no need for me to alter Grub configuration or boot device order in UEFI, or to change the boot loader back to the Win one.
I also stopped 3rd party firewall software during the update but the Active flag made the difference.
This change doesn't affect Win or Debian boot, and there are no collateral effects as I can see.
Hope this helps.

 

[Super Starman]

I'll need to create a system backup partition, I don't have it, likely because I used gparted, on the drive where win7 is, it is on the third partition of the drive, had no idea it had to be on the first partition of a drive and to be installed first before linux or another OS, I got the situation reversed, I guess it explains why I can't use windows backup either, I use 0&O Backup instead...anyways, the first partition with linux is expendable, it is entirely backed up and it is broken anyway.

I can only imagine the crazy acrobatics I'd have to move this win7 install to the first partition, which would need resizing, 195gb, my win7 partition is 500gb+, then create a system volume partition, now that even if I managed to install the march security updates, hiding kb4474419, did not help installing april's updates (gave me the usual unable to configure windows updates...reverting changes), I doubt I could go ahead and install may's update which is even more significant with everything related to .NET

It's kinda BS that pre-formatting and partitioning a drive and installing win7 on the last partition is causing me problems just now, when everything worked fine for...I got this installed since january last year, never got a message about windows being unable to create the "system volume", that I was made aware of through search results (people getting such an error).

 

[Super Starman]

Okay, I installed the System Readiness Tool, and I finally have a CheckSUR.log file to give people, diagnosis : wow, there's about 70 000 lines of issues in there, there was no CheckSUR.log in the CBS.log file I had uploaded.


I'll be uploading that here, this is the last chance before I decide to reinstall. snick, my windows 7 x64 ultimate disc doesn't allow me to make a Repair Install, when I click setup.exe after extracting the iso contents, I only get a Windows 7 header with an Install button, nothing like the image shown in the guides.



Since I've seen that Installed Updates is almost empty and a program I need, needs .NET 2.0 and that fails to install because it says I must use the Turn on or Off Windows Features thing, and surprise, that turns out to be empty too now.


I think the malware I picked up (firefox hijacking) a little after KB4474419 failed again and again, sometimes, I don't know how, I have ESET NOD32 antivirus and malwarebytes, the thing was really difficult to get rid of, and I think it infected some very important files, I remember reading CheckSUR or such and other stuff in system32 I had to quarantine out, no way to clean up the files, then all my issues showed up, I had to use malwarebytes, zemana anti-malware and malwarebytes adware to clean it all up, it took a while to find somebody who had a guide and who was aware of that old school browser hijacker (it only did so on Firefox strangely, didn't touch IE11 or Iridium). But I definitely lost some critical files or else things wouldn't be this messed up.


So I'll be attaching or giving a link to my CheckSUR.log file, I think that will tell those who really know what's up with those kind of files what's going on here. Also, even downloading updates I had installed, in Windows update where one sees one's history of updates...everything is there and installed fine, yet after using the Win Clean-Up tool, things got better (much faster and more stable OS, but it screwed up other things, I guess to balance things out , trying to get an .msi file of an update I already have installed according to my history will give me dialog box saying "This Update does not apply to your computer".....I don't think that's the normal message one gets when trying to install an update th Caat is already present, now is it? Can't install basic things like .NET 2.0 because said tools are blank, which makes no sense. To be clear it is thee Installed Updates window that is practically empty, there's .NET 3.5, silverlight and that's about it, it's nonsensical.



Hope I can finally close that thread soon after someone take a look at this, I'm seeing it definitely has to do with updates, WUT did not help, so maybe something will click here, I found out what's causing the update issues big time. It's strange how I can still manage to do a lot of things, the system doesn't act broken at all, except when certain native windows features are messed up such seemingly all .NET packages disappeared except for 3.5, hopefully it hasn't cleaned itself up of all the updates I've done since this install, about a year 1/2 ago.


CheckSUR.log
Zippyshare.com - CheckSUR.log

 

[Super Starman]

Okay, so I'm learning how to deal with the information checkSUR.log gives me :

Unavailable repair files:
    servicing\packages\Package_278_for_KB4343900~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.1.5.mum
    servicing\packages\Package_278_for_KB4343900~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.1.5.cat

So, okay, I look up and it says I need to download this update, although MS' site says that update has been replaced by (KB4457144), so I download the thing from MS' website.

Like any update I try to install that is from the past, which I have tried to do because my Installed Updates box suddenly became practically empty other than .NET 3.5 related packages, although my update history that I can see just before going to the Installed Updates dialog box, it tells me that "This Update is not applicable to your computer".



This is some byzantine running around itself issue at this point.


Also the rest of the amazing amount of errors found :


Summary:
Seconds executed: 1227
Found 167317 errors
CBS Catalog Missing Total count: 1
CBS Watchlist Package Missing Total count: 113897
CBS Watchlist Component Missing Total count: 53419


I don't know how that could have happened, the log has no (fix) lines after using the System Readiness Tool, so it doesn't fix anything plus it looks like any .msu older than the Security Roll-Up from March, that I managed to install, but maybe they're all gone or something now after the hour long "Failing to configure windows update, reverting changes" I get when trying to install KB4474419 or the roll-up for april and may, I didn't bother trying the June one so far, seems pointless. A Repair Install is not an option with the disc I have, same when I make an .iso with it and create a usb stick, result is the same.



So I can't repair the only thing checkSUR.log tells me is wrong that I figure out I could be trying to install, isn't that error inappropriate? That's not the message one gets when trying to install an update that is already present, if I remember correctly.
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[erpster4]

are you using an SSD drive or a traditional hard drive, Super Starman?
you don't have either HD or SSD listed in your system specs