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[Vista] 0x80004005 Service Pack 2 Installation Error

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Article ID: 971204 - Last Review: May 11, 2009 - Revision: 1.0
Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 service pack installation fails with error 0x80004005

»support.microsoft.com/kb/971204/

I had one machine out of 50 or so at work that did the same. I never was able to resolve it, had to just clean install. This machine never had "other drives" or disk management software, so that article wasn't much help for me, unfortunately.
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reply to trparky
I had that problem with SP1. I have not yet tried SP2.

For SP1, it turned out to be because I am running linux on a multi-boot system. The linux "/boot" partition was marked active. Apparenty the SP install can get confused if the active partition is not the one from which Vista boots. Solution: Mark the Vista partition active; install SP1; then mark the linux boot partition active (I did the latter with a linux rescue CD).

I have no idea whether your problem is similar or completely different.
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reply to trparky
For argument sake, does your machine have the lastest drivers and bios installed?

Leathal

It wasn't my machine, it was my uncle's machine that I was working on.

I've already restored the computer using the HP hidden recovery partition.

It was infected before but I went through all of the necessary cleanup measures so who really knows what caused it. It was having issues installing other Windows Updates so again, who knows.
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reply to trparky
I have the same problem. As far I as I am concern many people have reported this issue. I have hidden Lenovo partition and I did restore my system from an image backup in the past due to hard disk failure. However, I do not see errors in my CBS.log as reported in »support.microsoft.com/kb/971204 . So far I could not find any simple solution.

reply to trparky
I've had the same problem on a Dell XPS 600. This box had a clean install of a non-Dell full retail copy of Vista with SP1 incorporated.

I'm at current patch level, and the system is working just fine at SP1. I tried multiple times, with the help of MS tech support to fix this with no luck. Same problem...SP2 install fails at 100% of stage 3 with an E_FAIL error. Nothing helped, and even a repair attempt by an in-place upgrade using the MS Vista DVD bombed out (blue screen). I'm not going to use the nuclear option on this machine and do a clean reinstall...it just ain't worth it...I'm just gonna stay at SP1. My guess is that there is something flaky in this Dell h/w that the service pack doesn't like.

If anyone comes up with a workable fix I may try again but for now....oh well...another MS no work deal.
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reply to trparky
I have had this problem for 3 tries . I tried 3 times and all three time installation fails at step 3 100% with the same error code . However , I also have an OpenSuse partition and I think its boot loader that is active .

I'll try to remove it completely and install a fresh Vista .

You don't need to remove linux, just mark the windows partition active, then install SP2. Once complete then mark the linux partition active again.

i had the same issue with OpenSolaris and Windows 2008