Windows Vista SP2 Installation Problem E_FAIL(0x80004005)

Hi,

I am installing Windows Vista SP2 5 times and still getting a message that the installation was not successful. I tried to upgrade to SP2 by using the windows update and downloading the stand alone, but the results are still same. I downloaded System Update Readiness Tool and install, but when i noticed that the green bar hangs, i canceled it, but in the update history, it said that it was successfully installed.

Does somebody know how to fix this problem? I want to upgrade to Windows Vista SP2 madly, cause as everybody says "Windows Vista SP2 is better that SP1".

Thanks..

OS-Shocker

 

You can search for the error using Google: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=E_FA...0x80004005)&aqi=&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&fp=1mZ_-PL2Zjc

More than one result refers to the Grub boot manager... do you multiboot OSes or use a different bootloader other than the standard Windows one? (It's odd though, because I actually use Grub and I didn't encounter this problem.)

 

Hi,

I actually doesn't know about that. But I've only have one operating system. I don't use any bootloader.

 

hmmm... do you run any third-party security software? Was it turned on when you tried to install SP2?

 

I've turned of AVG, but it's the same result, failed..

 

May be a long shot but try removing AVG completely from your system and try again (there have been some problems with the newer versions of AVG). If you are concerned about a virus, use another AV like Avast before trying the online SP2 update.

 

Have you checked in your event logs to see if anything more specific got logged there about the failed install?

Also, the failed install that you cancelled might have scotched things if the update service still thinks it got installed correctly - I'm afraid I don't have any good next steps for that one, other than to contact MS support for the SP2 release.

Finally, this is more of a needle-in-the-haystack idea, but there should be a fairly detailed log file for the SP installation buried somewhere in your c:\ drive. Try doing a search on the c:\ drive for all files with the ".log" file extension, and see if anything the search pulls up is relevant to the attempted installations. If you find it, you should be able to spot precisely where the installation failed (it would probably be over some permissions or access-denied issue), which in turn should make it easier to fix.

 

I will try later to uninstall AVG and update to windows vista sp2.

 

I have uninstall AVG, but the SP2 failed to install to my system. Please someone help me. I've read other comments on other sites but they said that is is cause by a third party disk management. I don't even know it and not encounter such programs like that. Please, I've badly want to install sp2 on my pc.

 

Have you checked to see why it isn't installing? That would make it a lot easier to figure out how to get it to install.

 

After Windows revert changes when I'd try to install windows vista sp2, when i open windows, a dialog box appear



I have uninstall vista sp1 and will try to re install sp1 then install sp2 when i have plenty of time cause i have work to do..

 

you know something os-shocker, i got that same error message. unless there is something you need out of sp2 i suggest you forget about it. i think its still on the buggy side.

 

In that screenshot, there were two hyperlinks, one to the "Details" for the failed installation, and the other to get online help - have you clicked on either link, and if so, what exactly did it say?

Not so. If it won't install, that's because there's something borked about your current OS installation.

 

Try this from MS support:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971204