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Colin Brett

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As above. Windows 7 home premium 64 bit. Followed all the help stuff but to no avail. Any suggestions apart from a reinstall?

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if system readiness tool doesn't work:

create a new user profile;

control panel>users

make it an admin. reart pc, log into new profile and test windows update. if that works you have a profile corruption issue and can just continue to use the new profile after you have transferred everything across.

formatting is gonna be the very very last resort! :)

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if system readiness tool doesn't work:

create a new user profile;

control panel>users

make it an admin. reart pc, log into new profile and test windows update. if that works you have a profile corruption issue and can just continue to use the new profile after you have transferred everything across.

formatting is gonna be the very very last resort! :)

OK Finally got around to doing the above to no avail.

I had a thought and as I have a 32 bit version of wW7 installed I thought I'd give that a try!

Sadl the same result.

Any other ideas please?

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hmmm your really stuck on this one eh?

are you running service pack 1?

if not then manually download it from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5842

to be honest it might well be worth reinstalling it anyway if it will allow you to.

ive known system that wont update at all without having SR1 installed first.

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hmmm your really stuck on this one eh?

are you running service pack 1?

if not then manually download it from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5842

to be honest it might well be worth reinstalling it anyway if it will allow you to.

ive known system that wont update at all without having SR1 installed first.

SR1 is installed. It looks like I'm going to have to live with this one for the time being.

 

Thanks for trying.

 

Colin

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boot from your cd

choose install

then choose repair your computer (bottom left of screen)

don't go too far through the boot up options its only the 2nd or 3rd page...if you go too far youll just reinstall windows! LOL!

 

choose command prompt

then type chkdsk /f

let that run through and then test again

 

if that doesn't work...do this again but this time choose restore your computer using system restore

then check the system restore options for the last update installed..then restore to that point and test

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I was suffering the same problems with Win7 Pro, I tried all of Kiri's advice but no joy. I ended up doing an 'update' re-install...Seems to be working ok so far, I can attach and download from my camera and 'phone...these had failed over the last couple of weeks and i couldn't upgrade SP1!

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I reinstalled in the end it downloaded updates but couldnt install them ,then it couldnt do a backup or more importantly restore one in the end i did a settings transfer ,a mozbackup and formatted and did a clean install.

 

strangely the exact same problem has just occured it refused to back up past 7% a peek on the WWW instantly found a cure (fingers crossed but its at 57% now) in services both virtual disk and shadow copy hadnt started ,starting them appear to have prompted my pc to comply

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