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Windows Update accting strange
I have a custom build desktop.
I have a maintenance and backup HDD drive where I boot from it and make my backups (system image and every Friday I do a data backup). This is a 1 T drive, used mainly for backup, but in an emergency I can work from it as it has all main programs on it.
My daily working drive is a SSD (C: for OS and programs) and a D: HDD for data.
After installing Win 7 64 Home Premium (on the SSD) with all latest drives and some programs, I ran the so called SP2 witch install all updates till last April. Then I run the manual Windows Update, it found some updates and installed them.
Then I cloned the two drives (SSD and HDD) to the backup HDD in two partitions.
Both are running well, except the backup drive. It doesn't run properly the Windows update.
On the backup drive, by the automatic update (only important and MS products, not Recommended updates), it finds the updates, and a icon appears on the notification area telling that there are updates to be installed. When I open Windows Update, there is nothing there.
If I choose to manually search for updates it runs for hours and hours and then I close it.
As once I had a similar problem and I deleted the C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution folder and it began to work, I deleted it on the backup drive, but nothing changed.
Strange is that some important updates were installed automatically.
I've searched for help and I was taken to a MS site where I downloaded a WindowsUpdateDiagnostic.diagcab. When executed it opened the Diagnostic and troubleshooting wizard.
It found some problems but didn't fix all them.
Does someone knows how to fix the Windows Update on the backup drive?