Hi, I need a little help here. I´m helping someone with his pc. But it is not possible to install SP2 It´s a AMD Athlon X64 running a 32bit Vista SP1 The pc isn´t fucked up in any way (as far as i could determen) but simply refuses to install SP2. Could it be due to being a "recovery System" ? My guess now is ... if you have a pc that came with a hidden recovery partition it may not be able to recover once you install SP2 any ideas anyone ? Cube
I don't have experience with Vista. But on XP, some of the larger updates will have trouble updating live from Microsoft updates site. The workaround is to download the update as a file, and then install the update using the downloaded file instead of via the internet. Google "vista sp2 download" to find it.
:) done that too ... not working either ... even tried the file that should "prepare" Vista for the SP2 update. That "preparation" did not cause any errors but still the pc won´t let me install SP2 I even de-installed Kaspersky ... with no luck either Cube Edited by - cubesnake on 6/24/2011 11:07:58 PM
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Posted - Jun 24 2011 : 11:53PM
The best idea is to not waste any more time screwing around with Vista. But as to the recovery system idea, what brand of PC is it? Is it possible that the manufacturer has some software on the machine (like IBM/lenovo ThinkVantage) that has to be updated before the Service Pack can be applied?
it is a HP Pc. Don´t know of other Software that has to be updated before SP2 but you never know. As for wasting time with Vista ... if it were my pc i may have upgraded to 7 by now but to be honest Vista kinda surprised me for not being that bad as i thought ... on the other hand i don´t have everyday experience with it Cube
Well, I just installed both service packs on my Emachines a couple of weeks ago so there's nothing wrong with the update. It has to be the system you're trying to install it on. Does he have a recovery disc? Maybe you could reinstall the OS and try again? It's going to take forever because you'll probably have to install all the updates that have come along since the system was new. What I would do is reinstall the OS and turn off system restore ASAP. Then you'll have to install SP1 as soon as it'll let you (Like I said, you'll probably have to do some other updates first). For me, both service packs took around 40 minutes to an hour each. But the only problem I had was I forgot to turn my screen saver off and went to take a shower while one of them was trying to install. It doesn't like that.
it is a pc who came with a recovery partition ... don´t know if it will work though. The problem with most people is ... they own a pc but don´t want to have anything to do with it´s problems once they occur. I fixed what wasn´t working and i wanted to "tune" it a little but i feel if i try to run the recovery i may run into more problems that will only cost me more time. However, i think you are right ... starting from a certain point all over would probably fix the problem Cube
Been there, done that. I wasted a week trying to do a "minimally disruptive" repair on a friend's machine. I too feared a recovery would open a whole big nasty can of worms. But I was just spending too much time researching one little bug which refused to be solved. I finally bit the bullet, reformatted the hard drive, and used the recovery partition to do a reinstall. It took a week (working evenings) to remove all the factory-installed crapware (such as AOL etc), do all the updates and get things back like the owner wanted. Everything has been trouble-free since then, going on 3 months now. Before then, I'd been contacted at least twice a week to help fix one glitch or another, and even did a few band-aid fixes myself,...all virus/malware related. The biggest concern is getting the owner to tell you about all the non-factory stuff which has been added, so you can somehow save/backup or have some way to reinstall them after the format/reinstall.
The last time I had to do a reformat/reinstall/etc, I got everything the way I wanted it and then used this to take a snapshot to put on an external drive. It's a great program that works flawlessly.
Posted - Jun 24 2011 : 4:40PM