7 Home Premium in-place setup cancels itself, cannot sfc nor wupdate

gregrocker said:

He has factory preinstalled Win7 which is corrupt to begin with and which no tech enthusiast would run. I've advised him to get a Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7 which I hope he is considering while he rearranges the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Lol ... Love your work gregrocker.

Thanks, Smiley.

That's an interesting Updater. Bookmarked.

Yes Greg, I used it a few weeks ago and it works very well if you need or want to download all of Windows Updates prior to executing a clean install.

There's another Updater here that Si uses to slipstream the latest Updates into the Win7 installation ISO: TEST -Update 7 installation media. Saves hours of updating after a Clean Install.

tom982 said:

Firstly I want you to test your RAM with memtest:


RAM - Test with Memtest86+


Then run a chkdsk scan:


Disk Check

I have just very recently run both without found errors.

I am afraid that registry corruption is more likely my fault than the hardware's since, after first noticing the Windows Update problem several months ago, I used some bad registry cleaner software. Too much time has elapsed to try restoring. But I think I have found some reliable backup hardware and will no doubt very soon be looking for advice and assistance in implementing the best possible procedures for backup, clean install, restore.

I'll try Memtest+ & chkdsk /f /r again right now.

DaveF said:

I am afraid that registry corruption is more likely my fault than the hardware's since, after first noticing the Windows Update problem several months ago, I used some bad registry cleaner software. Too much time has elapsed to try restoring. But I think I have found some reliable backup hardware and will no doubt very soon be looking for advice and assistance in implementing the best possible procedures for backup, clean install, restore.

I gave you everything you need a week ago, in the blue link below:

gregrocker said:

You said you dread getting the vastly superior Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7 but did you read it as no one who has tried it has lost any software that came preinstalled that they still needed. We can help you with any of these that you are concerned with.

Since you came here to the top resource on the web for this specialty then why not get the best possible install instead of the worst one which you have if you have preinstalled Asus Win7? It will truly be better than getting a new PC under the circumstances.

I'm also trying to follow the well-documented yet labyrinthine how-to on creating a slipstream installation image, and download of the Update7v4 zipfile, whatever it is, keeps failing due to an unreadable source.

That's OK, Si will help you in the thread if you ask as he did me.

The 7v4 file is working fine for me from Skydrive. Try another browser, PC or connection?

The Updateslist.zip once unzipped and run will auto-load the latest edited Updates list into the Downloader dropdown menu so you can preselect the Updates he recommends which were all I needed.

Mr Smiley said:

Yes Greg, I used it a few weeks ago and it works very well if you need or want to download all of Windows Updates prior to executing a clean install.

Si, one thing in your installer+updater ISO building howto has me confused.

Code:

3. Extract this onto C. UPDATE7v4.zip

Do you mean that the contents of the Windows Updates Downloader program need, after the WUD has run, to be added to the Update7v4 zip archive?

And anyone/everyone: I am nervous about any special considerations because of UEFI. Its bootability is fully supported in the BIOS I'm now using but will Windows7 Home reinstallation be fully aware of it?

I wish I could promise that's my final question.