This can come from several issues. One of them is access (or permissions) issues.
Insure you have enough FREE space on this system, and nothing is locking out access to your drives.
This is an old reference, but should be a good starter.
See this MS page
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/troubleshoot/
Scan down or do a find for 80070005
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Maurice N
MVP Windows - Shell / User
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whiteegg wrote:
> Hi, I got error 0x80070005 while updating for my win2000 advance
> server. Attach is the log. Can someone please help to fix this
> problem? Thanks
>
> * START ** : Installing client binaries
> ********
> * Download directory: C:\WINNT\SoftwareDistribution\Web
> * Stop and start service: Yes
> FATAL: SelfUpdate: Failed to stop service wuauserv, error = 0x80070005
> * WARNING: Exit code = 0x80070005
> *********
> ** END ** : Installing client binaries
> *************
> FATAL: InstallUpdatedBinaries failed with error 0x80070005
> FATAL: InstallUpdatedBinaries failed with error:0x80070005
> FATAL: UpdateClientWorker failed: error 0x80070005