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SP1 - My Story & Ordeal
This is a continuation/update/final report on my original thread - Error Code 800736B3 on SP1 Update
I thank everyone for your help - especially Corrine. Hopefully my experience will help someone having similar issues installing SP1.
I tried ALL suggestions made to get SP1 installed, but nothing worked.
Thank God I have a retail DVD of my Win 7 64 bit OS. I performed a repair install using the tutorial on this site. From past experiences with other Windows OS, I always thought that I had to boot from the original installation disc to repair problems with Windows. This tutorial was excellent. Thanks Brink!
The repair install went well. The 63 updates I had to install afterwards were a different story. I thought I could download/install them all at once - WRONG! I got a failure upon restart. I had to install just a few at a time. Several updates would NOT install unless they were the ONLY one selected. EVERY update batch I installed required a restart. This took a LONG time.
I finally got to the biggie after all others were done - SP1. Before attempting to install it, I ran sfc /scannow & found no system file errors. I then ran the System Update Readiness tool. I performed a manual install of SP1 from the file I had downloaded from Microsoft. --- SUCCESS! - SP1 is now installed.
The only after effects I suffered was a HD that was about 40% fragmented, which was easy to fix. The other one I'm still working on: I have Win 7 32 bit on a VMware virtual disc & the NIC has been alienated from my network. It sees no available networks - but that's for another forum. That is minor compared to the experience I've had with SP1 during the past 3 or 4 days!
Thanks to everyone that contributed!
Last edited by TBoyd; 27 Feb 2011 at 13:54.