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

I tried to make a list beforehand of all the things I'd lose. I lost some recent passwords that the previous browser had cached but which were not included in an export. I lost router and DNS settings that I forgot to write down but which were easily recoverable. I lost many, many pieces of shareware - text-editor/IDE's, SSH clients. All of which, I guess, were expendable.

Performance was never much of a problem, and I'm not as overwhelmed as others appear to think I ought to be, about any improvements to it.

What exactly is going to happen in the likely event that I'm unable to find the sticker?

It was absolutely never affixed to my hardware. There are little stickers on the inside beneath the keyboard for intel CORE™i5 and Windows®7 but nothing unit-specific. Sorry if that's hard to believe, but the unbroken plainness of the "Zenbook" design is evidently an intended part of its charm.

WOW!! There it is!!!!!

You're AMAZING!

Maybe after I validate sfc will work. Will let you know.

gregrocker said:

What router and DNS settings are needed during Clean Reinstall? I've not heard of any. Is this specific to the way you set up your router, as normally Win7 connects to modem or router quite easily when driver is loaded.

No, my network is needed only before and after Clean Reinstalls. Although I was unable to get the non-steamlined hotfixes until after I restored the network. That was easy for me. Router login credentials are particularly key. I also don't have a removable or observable NIC. So those are a couple things worth putting on a save-list for me, next time.

But I really lost very little that I can't rebuild or replace, that I've yet noticed.

Windows and Windows Update keep telling me they have a new update for my network adapter but three tries at installing it cause my network to break. More critically, I have a couple other new surprises related to my Clean Reinstall.

First, revalidation does appear to have been crucial to success at running SFC! Although the volume had not been marked dirty, there does seem to be a secret Microsoft F.U. Bit that was set in order to present the inexplicable Windows Resource Protection message on each prior attempt to run it.

The other critical surprise: My brandspanking new Clean Reinstall notwithstanding, an sfc /verifyonly returns:

Code:

Beginning system scan.  This process will take some time.

Beginning verification phase of system scan.
Verification 100% complete.

Windows Resource Protection found integrity violations. Details are included in the CBS.Log windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For example C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log

So, first, is there anything that I can/should try before running an sfc /scannow? And, how could this happen (almost) immediately after a Clean Reinstall? Windows Update appears to have broken my machine yet again by attempting to overwrite my good network adapter driver with a corrupt one.

Sorry I should have said that I had already rolled it back, thus allowing me to make the previous post.


I USED THE CD YOU PEOPLE TOLD ME TO MAKE.


If the SFC complaint means that something is "corrupt" it was due to the one out of 70+ updates I did subsequently - that Windows Update did - which failed.

I'm done for the day; will check back tomorrow.

Thanks.

Before going to bed I decided to let sfc run with /scannow instead of /verifyonly. It found integrity errors (again, most likely the oem's non-whql nic driver), and displayed a message indicating those errors would be fixed on reboot.

I did another reboot; I did another scannow.

Code:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>sfc /scannow

Beginning system scan.  This process will take some time.

Beginning verification phase of system scan.
Verification 100% complete.

Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.

C:\Windows\system32>