Updates Failed to install - Error Code 80071A91

Hi Drainbolt,
Got it from another post in this forum
Windows update error 80071A91 also 80070643

Have a read first then proceed as you see fit.

Roy

Hi Roy,

I am afraid that I could not find the instructions pasted into your post#4 in the link you gave me.

However, I tried to carry out those instructions - unsuccessfully.

The attrib -r-s-h* command attracted the rejoinder "Invalid switch - -r-s-h*" , and then when I tried the second part, the attrib -a-h-s*.TM* command resulted in the corresponding error response.

Any other suggestions?

Hi Drainbolt,

Did you have a space between h #, and the >first< del, your post doesnt.

Roy

Hi Roy

Thank you for coming back so soon. I tried the set of commands again in the light of your query. I must have got the spacings wrong in the fiirst set of commands in some respect because this time I was able to get to the end of that set OK (I think). (On completing attrib -r -s -h * it came up with "Are you sure? (Y/N)" and I entered Y. I hope this was right.)

On the second set of commands, after entering
attrib -a -h -s *.TM*
it returned "File not found - *.TM*".

I tried several different permutations of . TM * with and without gaps between the various characters but that response is the best I got.

I am at a loss now as to how to proceed.

Hi Drainbolt,
Windows Update giving error code 80071A91 - Windows 7 Help Forums .

Have a read of the above thread, Those Guys are far more competant than me.

There is a slight change to 1 of the posts i suggested, from Troy.

As you go thru it, they seem to think this is one of the more UNsolveable errors.

You could try or go for the Repair.

Roy

Hi Torchwood

It certainly is looking like an unsolveable error, but thank you for your time and help, even if this time we have not been successful!

For the record, I have tried some of the routines suggested in the other thread you linked me to. I first tried what Troy6 suggested in his post #23 on the thread (which in turn referred to an MS article). That got me nowhere. Specifically, it could not find any *blf files on my machine, not any *regtrans-ms files.

That perhaps is not surprising since the MS article relates to the Windows Vista OS, whereas mine is Win7, as is the machine of the original poster on that thread. So that was no good.

I then went on to the routine in Troy6's further post #26. This again got me nowhere, because it could not locate c:\$Extend\$RmMetadata\$TxfLog\*, nor C:\Windows\System32\SMI\Store\Machine\*.blf, nor C:\Windows\System32\SMI\Store\Machine\*.regtrans-ms, as the attached output from the cmd prompt given below shows:

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

C:\Windows\system32>fsutil resource stop c:\
The operation completed successfully.

C:\Windows\system32>takeown /f c:\$Extend\$RmMetadata\$TxfLog\*

INFO: There are no files (or folders) found in the specified file path.

C:\Windows\system32>icacls c:\$Extend\$RmMetadata\$TxfLog\* /grant Administrator
sF)
Successfully processed 0 files; Failed processing 0 files

C:\Windows\system32>del c:\$Extend\$RmMetadata\$TxfLog\*
Could Not Find c:\$Extend\$RmMetadata\$TxfLog\*

C:\Windows\system32>cd /d %SystemRoot%\System32\SMI\Store\Machine

C:\Windows\System32\SMI\Store\Machine>attrib -s -h *

C:\Windows\System32\SMI\Store\Machine>del *.blf
Could Not Find C:\Windows\System32\SMI\Store\Machine\*.blf

C:\Windows\System32\SMI\Store\Machine>del *.regtrans-ms
Could Not Find C:\Windows\System32\SMI\Store\Machine\*.regtrans-ms

C:\Windows\System32\SMI\Store\Machine>
So, I am not sure what to try now. I am loathe to do another reinstall, having done one only a couple of months ago. But anyhow, thank you again for your time and assistance.