Stuck in a failed update loop.

Hope this goes better than the kitchen I'm designing, stupid program just put an island right in the middle of the kitchen sink

At least you caught it in the design stage and not after some idiot chippy had built it that way! :)

Yeah, cause I'm the idiot who is going to be building it

OK I've had a look at the files, and it seems to me that the problem is simply a case of missing data, rather than corruptions.

Paradoxically, that makes a repair harder rather than easier, as the usual corruption is only a single bitflip, which allows a quick repair. Missing data has to be built up from scratch - or the detection system fooled.

All of the affected registry entries are for SP1 rather than an ordinary patch.


I suspect that your best (and safest) option is going to be a repair install of Windows, and then updating again.

See the instructions here..


https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html

Thanks for all of your efforts Noel. I've dreaded doing that. Question: If I do a repair install do I lose all of my personal files?

A repair install should keep all your data intact, although you will lose a few system settings as they are restored to default.

As always -- back up to external media first, just incase....

Thanks Noel
I just read all of those instructions for creating a useable ISO DVD repair disk. Sounds easy enough (then why is my gut tied in a knot). Sure wish there was an easier way.
I made a repair disk (SP 1) from digital rivers before. Am I to understand that this would be a different one that includes the updates or am I just praying out loud?

Repair disks are a whole different ball-game to install disks. - and usually contain a minimum number of files, just sufficient to gain access and control of a dead installation so you an find out what's wrong and put it right. I prefer to use full install disks for that purpose anyhow.
Unfortunately there's no such thing as a downloadable disk that's been updated past the basic SP1 install.

So the ISO image I got of the 7 Pro with SP1 before will be the same one as the one I just downloaded??? If it is then I should just be able to back everything up and run that. I don't need to make another one Yes, no?

Assuming it's the full SP1 disk, yes, it'll be the same .

Good luck!