It installed fine for me on a cloned HDD.

My laptop is only a few months old. Do I really have to install SP1 or will it wait for a few weeks/months? I have the 64bit version. Two other updates came through at the same time - can I install these without SP1? The reason I'm a bit iffy about it all is that I had trouble with an XP Service Pack update (2 to 3) which gave me BSOD and other errors including serious lockups. Never really got to the bottom of it and managed for a couple of (trouble-free) years without upgrading after doing a System Restore.

In reply to a post by GeoffB:

My laptop is only a few months old. Do I really have to install SP1 or will it wait for a few weeks/months? I have the 64bit version. Two other updates came through at the same time - can I install these without SP1? The reason I'm a bit iffy about it all is that I had trouble with an XP Service Pack update (2 to 3) which gave me BSOD and other errors including serious lockups. Never really got to the bottom of it and managed for a couple of (trouble-free) years without upgrading after doing a System Restore.

Just be sure you have a back up image before you start installing sp1 in case things go pear shaped.

Well I found the cause eventually.
Rather than having to reinstall like MS say all that is needed is to use Disk Management to mark the system partition as active.
Wonder if they will change their advice to reflect this ....

In reply to a post by MacTaff:

Well I found the cause eventually.
Rather than having to reinstall like MS say all that is needed is to use Disk Management to mark the system partition as active.
Wonder if they will change their advice to reflect this ....

Did you post that information in the feedback of the KB in question?

In reply to a post by NICK_ADSL_UK:

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (KB976932)
please note this update is now available from the Microsoft update site or you can download it from here do please follow any instruction carefully for a successful installation

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?...

download link doesnt work.

it asks me to download tool to check windows is genuine.

when I run it, the tool says its obselete and I need to download newer version.

Strange, that page with the validation tool worked ok for me and I got the download.

Win7 sp1 errors in installing ?

Windows 7 Service Pack 1 may fail to install properly on systems which have had the Driver Sweeper utility from Phyxion run against the Windows image. You could possibly encounter errors 0x800f0a13 or 0x800f0826 in your \Windows\Logs\CBS.log file that is similar to the following:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/joscon/archive/2011/02/24...


When installing Service Pack 1 on Windows 7 installations, you may enounter the following error code in the \Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log: 0x8004a029

http://blogs.technet.com/b/joscon/archive/2011/02/21...


Windows 7 SP1 Follow-up
http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows...


Windows 7/2008 R2 Service Pack 1 fails with 0x800f0a12
http://blogs.technet.com/b/joscon/archive/2011/02/17...


How to reclaim space after applying Windows 7/2008 R2 Service Pack 1
http://blogs.technet.com/b/joscon/archive/2011/02/15...


You receive exit code 0x800f081f when attempting to install SP1 for Win7/R2
http://blogs.technet.com/b/joscon/archive/2011/02/14...

In reply to a post by petsy:

Strange, that page with the validation tool worked ok for me and I got the download.

I eventually got it working with IE.

FF has the tool issue I posted.

IE initially wouldnt even show the continue button, I disabled simple adblock to make it show up and then installed the active x checker which allowed me to download.

Normally on service packs I reinstall windows using a integrated dvd, but in this case I am just going to install the service pack.

Edited by Chrysalis (Sat 26-Feb-11 06:09:08)

Why does it takes ages to actually start the download. Does it check against every installed update before the download starts ?

Why is there no facility to tell the user how its going, instead of being stuck at 0% for ages ? The same for the actual installation...