Failed Windows Update

Glenn · Jan 30, 2009, 16:41:01

It's the drugs I tell you, the David's sound much worse

Rik · Jan 30, 2009, 16:42:07

His piano playing or...

Noreen · Jan 30, 2009, 17:25:42

Quote from: Glenn on Jan 30, 2009, 11:17:54
Possibly try deleting the update from the Windows\SoftwareDistribution\downloads folder then download it again

I've four folders, all with long names of numbers and letters and all dated this morning in Windows\Software Distribution\ Downloads. Should I just delete those folders?

Glenn · Jan 30, 2009, 17:27:21

Noreen, rename them then if it work delete them

Noreen · Jan 30, 2009, 17:40:35

Thanks, I'm also a bit worried about turning off my NOD32 antivirus to download this Update, isn't it risky?

Rik · Jan 30, 2009, 17:46:31

It is, but not hugely so.

Philip · Jan 30, 2009, 17:54:31

Installed ok on Vista here, with nothing turned off.

Noreen · Jan 30, 2009, 18:02:40

I'm going to try again later.

Noreen · Jan 31, 2009, 12:29:04

Tried again this morning, renamed the items in the download folder and turned off NOD32 but got the same result. However I later restarted and it went straight into a check disk saying that some files needed to be checked. Not sure now whether I had something wrong that also caused the Update to not install or whether the failed Update had caused a problem.

Rik · Jan 31, 2009, 12:31:17

Did CHKDSK complete OK?

Noreen · Jan 31, 2009, 12:42:41

Yes but I can't remember how to find out what it did.

Rik · Jan 31, 2009, 12:45:23

Me neither, I've only ever read what it said at the time.

Noreen · Jan 31, 2009, 12:49:50

It didn't really give me time to read it.

Rik · Jan 31, 2009, 12:52:50

That's the annoying thing with these programs, unless you time the puse key just right, you never do know what was going on.

Steve · Jan 31, 2009, 12:55:51

Allegedly its here in Vista from Control Panel classic view Admin tools

It's located in Event Viewer -> windows protocols -> application, item "wininit".
Alternatively, when running next scandisk, just insert USB flash drive before the scan. After Vista reboots, you will find the log file in the root of USB drive

Whether this is correct I don't know as on XP today

Glenn · Jan 31, 2009, 12:58:14

http://www.vistax64.com/software/97894-finding-chkdsk-log-file-vista.html

Steve · Jan 31, 2009, 13:01:02

That's where I found it

I just omiited the czech to make it sound less dodgy.

Noreen · Jan 31, 2009, 13:16:39

I did a search online and then managed to find this, dated this morning.

QuoteOne of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You
may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended
that you continue.
Windows will now check the disk.
96384 file records processed.

347 large file records processed.

0 bad file records processed.

2 EA records processed.

44 reparse records processed.

129300 index entries processed.

0 unindexed files processed.

96384 security descriptors processed.

Cleaning up 481 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 481 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 481 unused security descriptors.
16459 data files processed.

CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
34940568 USN bytes processed.

Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

Rik · Jan 31, 2009, 14:39:15

It looks like it's cleaned up the disk OK. Have you still not managed to get the update to install?

Noreen · Jan 31, 2009, 17:38:29

Haven't tried again yet, not brave enough.

Rik · Jan 31, 2009, 17:40:21

I installed it this afternoon, but of course that was in XP. It did take a long time to install, with both cores being heavily loaded.

Noreen · Jan 31, 2009, 17:56:40

Would what was cleaned up account for the Update failing to install?

Rik · Jan 31, 2009, 18:00:05

It shouldn't do, but we are talking Windows.