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Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 gets stuck halfway through install
Symptom is always the same: the green bar gets about halfway along, and then it gets stuck. I left it going for 16 hours--nothing.
The one time it's done something different: the first time I tried to install from the download file, it gave me a BSOD (0X0000007a, 0xC0000185, ataport.SYS) but I haven't been able to reproduce that and I'm not sure at what point in the update process it happened.
Installation is only a week old. It's Enterprise, using a volume-license MAK key, and correctly registered.
I have use the SURT, it installed properly, and the CheckSUR log says no errors detected.
sfc / scannow reports no errors.
There are no error codes in Windows Update.
chkdsk reports no errors.
I have tried both the Windows Update installer, and downloading the SP1 pack to install - same result.
I have scanned for viruses and malware and then uninstalled my antivirus (yes, I'm being very paranoid about what sites I go to right now).
I have cleared out the Windows Update cache and re-checked for updates.
I have cleared out temporary files (used CCleaner, did not let it mess with my registry)
I have uninstalled drivers for everything except my NVIDIA graphics card.
I have disabled all non-microsoft services on startup and rebooted.
The CBS folder is 190 gig. It keeps making more and more timestamped CBSPersist.log files that are 15-55Gb each. My CBS.log file alone is 20Gb. I have an install trying to run at the moment, and the CBS.log file grew 2Gb in the ten minutes it took me to copy the folder. Surely that's not normal? It's chewed up all the remaining space on C:/. Literally reports 0 bytes free. I've copied the folder to another drive, can I just delete the CbsPersist files to get some space back?