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[WIN7] hd did not retain data....

Can you explain things a little more clearer?

reply to cme2
You have to go through the update procedure + reboot procedure many times, even if it shows no updates are available, more may show up once the current patch is applied and you reboot.
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reply to cme2
i formatted an old laptop, installed win 7. installed 60 updates. indicator said updates were installled...yet the yellow box saying successfully installed restart pc did not appear.

i restarted, windows said it was configuring. once i restart and go to update center i notice nothing was installed whatsoever.

so during that whole time the updates were downloaded.....installed

and nothing happened....hmmm 37gb hd from 10 years ago. no errors was barely used

You're complaining about a 10 year old HDD? Can the computer even run Windows 7?

reply to cme2

reply to Krisnatharok
yes it can run it with the themes turned off.

all i am asking is how it showed updates installed...i restart and nothing was applied beside the windows agent updater ...

it boggles my mind to know things were downloaded and a progress bar showing installing updates...and for me to restart seeing nothing.

besides the windows updater being installed.

electromagnetic hdd issue? eh who knows the hd was barely used.

Nevermind

reply to norwegian
yes indeedy i did...it only installed 1 update.

reply to cme2
In reality the 37GB drive may not be big enough for Windows7 and the updates to install.

reply to cme2
My next guess is along Hank's reply, the cache of updates was too big for the HDD, try hooking up an external HDD to allow a cache of the updates for installing from.
Note: Although it is already completed.
Otherwise run HDD Tune pro and check smart details on the drive.

reply to cme2
It only installed the updater. That has to go in first.
Run the windows update again.

reply to Hank
If it's a fresh Windows 7 install with little else installed, 40 GB is plenty for the OS+updates.
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You would think so, and I understand there are quite a few reboots in between, but to download the full kit from scratch and install as Microsoft required, and create all temp files and all else, the "clean install" may balk at such a small size. Personally, I've love to see this question started from scratch with an external drive to see if all the temp/cache nonsense was offloaded to see if it was duplicated or not, or just user misunderstanding.

Just curious.
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reply to cme2
If you installed using an original win7 disk, there are several updates that require individual install and reboot. WU may download 50 updates, but only install 1 or 2 on each reboot. The next time WU is run, the previously downloaded updates wont have to be downloaded again, just installed.
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reply to norwegian
I've done fresh installs with partition sizes of that or slightly less, it uses maybe half of that at the most. If you have a lot of RAM (8+ GB) and have the pagefile and hibernation file on it, then you may start running into problems. Nuke hibernation, and it's easy to get a Windows install in the teens.

Windows downloads updates to be installed at C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download. Take a peek in there, especially during a big patch cycle. There should be a lot of stuff in there.
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reply to cme2
this has not occured in the past to me.

I use a digitalriver content iso. md5 verified.

hdd error i guess.

reply to Camelot One
I think you nailed it .
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reply to n_w95482
Yes, but this was an old system with a small HDD, doubt there is 8GB ram, I bet it is lucky if it makes 4 GB limit and I'm also guessing x86 platform.
There wasn't a real lot of info.

But for cleaning up the system, yes I agree, you can strip a lot of wasted temp storage back to quite a small figure, I think 7GB from memory on XP was normal for me with 1 or 2GB ram in the old days. Win 7 I haven't stripped as much, as you suggest, more ram etc.

Back to the OP's question, still not results from a HD Tune pro trial to see what shape the HDD is in and still very limited info for even guessing what is happening with that system.

Once, trouble shooting meant listing hardware specs as a basic for help.
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How about a figure of a fully loaded O/S, and think of a small amount of ram requiring a good sized page file etc to, don't turn off hibernation for the test, that is cheating.
Although on that note if the HDD was exceeding it's limits and the installer/s were out of space you would likely see an "out of virtual memory" error before the HDD was full, at least I believe you would see it at some point.

As for the HDD smart report, it still would be great for the topic....otherwise we are all hot air in the balloon of this topic. So far the discussion for the OP just raises eye brows like a balloon....a little bit of corny description too I know.
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