18th June 2008

Problems Installing Vista SP1

posted in Microsoft, Software, Technology, Vista |

I’m having a problem installing Vista SP1 on my main workstation. Microsoft Update keeps throwing a Code 80070570 error which has no real description. The best hint I can find searching the net is that it might be related to some disk issues, but running a CHKDSK to fix errors didn’t make the problem go away.

My next attempt is to download the standalone upgrade- its possible the problem I’m experiencing is with Microsoft Update rather than the service pack itself.

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  1. 1 On June 19th, 2008, Dave Naffziger said:

    I may have had the same problem (I can’t recall exactly). The install would get 98% complete, but then it would run into a problem with install.wim. I was loading off of a non-original DVD from a friend at MSFT(while waiting for my SN in the mail). I thought it was HD problems also, but once i got an original DVD it worked fine.

    Not sure if your problems are similar but ultimately I chalked it up to a corrupted DVD.

  2. 2 On June 19th, 2008, Installing Vista SP1 Follow Up » AlexHopmann.com said:

    [...] Yesterday I wrote about problems installing Vista SP1 on this machine. Running the “download and run it yourself” installer worked fine with one little glitch. The issue was that I first downloaded the SP1 setup that only contained 5 languages, thinking “hey, I only really actually care about English”. The catch is that it won’t run if you have any languages other than those 5 installed. I had previously installed a ton of languages since they were just check boxes in Windows Update. [...]

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