STAN STARINSKI is a troll .
On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 22:21:01 -0700, David L.
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>1) STAN STARINSKI: I readed your reply. And it seems to be easier to
>completely disable automatic updates. By the way... ¿Why i need to test each
>update in a "guinea pig" machine before installing in on the Whole system?
>Its Microsoft duties, not mine.
>And in mi personal opinion,if Microsoft don't have the necessary elements to
>test the Update on any possible environment OR if Microsoft thinks that the
>update can cause malfunctions on some Systems, ¿Why they don't put a Warning
>Message in the Details section of the Update?, or, taking the fact that
>Microsoft is "Compromised" with user Security and always try to design
>"Idiot-Proof Software", ¿why they don't put some code on the Windows Update
>Service, that checks the possible impacts that can have the Update on the
>System if it results Installed?, and, if theres a Conflict, just warn the
>user and let it decide if the Update will be installed or not.
>
>2) Richard Urban: I never said that i wouldn't do an update of my Servers
>data. In fact, that day when Windows Updates failed, a complete server backup
>was scheduled, But it never starts. My servers works using custom databases
>that are constantly used and modified, because of that, my servers needs to
>go to an Offline Mode in order to perform a backup. I hope that you now
>understand that backups CANT be performed everyday.
>When Windows Updates installed the faulty Update, there was about 380gb of
>new data that are not present on the Last Backup Performed. Anyway, you don't
>answer any of the 7 questions that i wrote before, and i still don't
>understand why Windows Updates make my system Crash with something that
>appears to be a Completely Tested and Secure Update, and i don't understand
>why the Windows Installer formats the Drive without my Permission neither.
>That leads me to the third Reply to my first Message...
>
>3) Dot [.]: It seems to be the Simplest and more useful answer to my First
>Message. Before i post here my experience (and obviously after the Windows
>Installer formats the drive), i suppose that the problem was caused by a
>Faulty Hard Drive, so i unmount it, and plug it into another machine with
>software specially configurated to stress and test in deep hard disks. I
>tested it at surface level with many tools, and realize that the drive didn't
>cause the data loss. I also run a server benchmark and stress test in order
>to check if any PC component was faulty, and again, i found nothing. So, the
>only thing that was able to cause the data loss, was the Windows Installation
>DVD. --
>
>I put the hard disk under a Data Recovery Software, and found that, in fact,
>the disk partition was formatted using Quick Format mode, and i was able to
>recover some of the lost data. But not all of them.
>But i still want to know some answers to the questions previously posted.
>And in addition, i want to know ¿how is possible that an Update can damage
>the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 currently installed on Windows Server 2008
>(as part of the system), and there isn't a way that an user can follow to
>repair it?. I mean, ¿The components installed as part of Windows, can be
>damaged, but cant be repaired? I decide to install a clean version of Windows
>Server 2008 in another machine and try to update it, and see what happens.
>Because there was a lot of updates available, i decide to install them in
>groups of 10 to 15. The first group was fine, but some update on the second
>group has damaged my installation of .NET Framework 2.0, I search a little,
>and found a possible solution posted on the MSDN forums, that using a command
>line tool called "sfc" with the parameters "/SCANNOW" in conjunction with
>the Native Image Generator "ngen.exe" with parameters "update"; i can be able
>to get rid of the problem. But don't work, "ngen.exe" recognizes that some
>files are damaged, but do noting, and "sfc" tells me that everything is
>perfect. Continuing with the Updates, after the last group wich contains most
>of the recent ones, the System crashed and enters the Infinite loop that my
>server experience.
>
>Looking at my little "test" results, its obvious that Windows Updates is
>causing the problem by installing faulty updates on Windows Server 2008, and
>its not my servers problem.
>
>Thanks for reply, and still waiting for answers.
>
>Sincerely, David L.
>- I decided to reserve my Company Information -
>
>PD: Because im from another Country where English is not the official
>Language, i apologize for any Spelling Error on the Text.-