Possible solution to SP1 not installing

I had posted previously about not being able to install SP1.

The application of the service pack failed right at the point where the
first reboot was expected.


I have completely "standard" hardware. No 3rd party drivers. A fresh install
of Vista with *no* applications
installed.

After a full day of experimentation I finally managed to get SP1 installed
by simply specifying "quiet mode".

To save a lot of typing I simply renamed the service pack to sp1.exe

then from the command prompt entered: sp1.exe /quiet


The sp finally got installed.

Because the quiet mode was specified...the machine rebooted a number of
times with no "warning"...
so if anyone tries it...just let it run and sit back and do nothing until
the entire process is complete.


NOTE: Though it worked for me...I advise anyone who does it to make sure
they have some type of backup
as it could of course entirely destroy the system.

I have also had people contacting me with the permissions error code
80070005. On further investigation it has been found that the user has
disabled User Account Control (UAC). In the few cases that I have been
contacted regarding the 80070005 error code it was a simply matter of
enabling UAC again and then installing SP1 again.

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"philo" <> wrote in message
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>I had posted previously about not being able to install SP1.
>
> The application of the service pack failed right at the point where the
> first reboot was expected.
>
>
> I have completely "standard" hardware. No 3rd party drivers. A fresh
> install
> of Vista with *no* applications
> installed.
>
> After a full day of experimentation I finally managed to get SP1 installed
> by simply specifying "quiet mode".
>
> To save a lot of typing I simply renamed the service pack to sp1.exe
>
> then from the command prompt entered: sp1.exe /quiet
>
>
> The sp finally got installed.
>
> Because the quiet mode was specified...the machine rebooted a number of
> times with no "warning"...
> so if anyone tries it...just let it run and sit back and do nothing until
> the entire process is complete.
>
>
> NOTE: Though it worked for me...I advise anyone who does it to make sure
> they have some type of backup
> as it could of course entirely destroy the system.
>
>
>

John Barnett MVP wrote:
> I have also had people contacting me with the permissions error code
> 80070005. On further investigation it has been found that the user has
> disabled User Account Control (UAC). In the few cases that I have been
> contacted regarding the 80070005 error code it was a simply matter of
> enabling UAC again and then installing SP1 again.
>

The exact error code I had gotten was 0x800736CC .
All I could find for that error was "incorrect hash number".

Believe me I tried a lot of different ways to install SP1...
both with UAC on and with UAC off.
I even extracted the cab files first and tried it.

SP1 just plain did not install until I tried it in the /quiet mode

I have no idea why that did the trick for me...but it did.


For now I have put Vista aside...and will probably re-evaluate it again
in a few months.