W7 SP1 Installation Failure error 0×80070005

seawatch1 February 26, 2011 at 06:12:59

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jrgboy February 26, 2011 at 12:46:10

Yes, I disable the firewall as well, doing a quick search round the internet, shows many people with similar problems.

likelystory February 26, 2011 at 13:17:24

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jrgboy February 27, 2011 at 01:53:36

Thanks for the link, I found the cbs log, but I cannot find any error messages that are the same as the ones listed. I will leave it for the moment , this looks like another Microsoft issue where they expect everyone to spend hours amending the update to conform with their own config.

Fingers February 27, 2011 at 05:25:57

I updated to SP1 without problems. All other updates were already done except 2 optional ones and I do not use McAfee (possible problem). The 2 optional ones were added after without problems. Try sending a note to MS. You have to be a little bit crazy to keep you from going insane.

jrgboy February 27, 2011 at 08:34:35

Thanks Fingers, I don't usually have problems with updates,they have all completed ok , McAfee has never caused problems before, the only problems I had with virus software was with Spyware Doctor but I uninstalled that a while ago.

jrgboy February 27, 2011 at 09:44:29

I have tried again - I ran the System Update Readiness tool first which showed no problems, the update ran for around 15 mins then failed with ERROR_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING ERROR 0X80073701. I have run scf.exe scannow but that shows no files are missing.

jrgboy February 27, 2011 at 10:07:15

This is from the cls log, if anyone can translate - thanks STATUS_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING originated in function CCSDirectTransaction::LockComponent expression: (null) [gle=0x80004005] 2011-02-27 17:17:43, Error CSI 00000250 (F) STATUS_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING #634605# from CCSDirectTransaction::OperateEnding at index 0 of 1 operations, disposition 2[gle=0xd015000c] 2011-02-27 17:17:43, Error CSI 00000251 (F) HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(ERROR_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING) #634490# from Windows::ServicingAPI::CCSITransaction::ICSITransaction_PinDeployment(Flags = 0, a = Microsoft-Windows-Branding-Ultimate-Deployment-LanguagePack, Version = 6.1.7600.16385, pA = PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_INTEL (0), Culture = [l:10{5}]"en-US", VersionScope = 1 nonSxS, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}, Type neutral, TypeName neutral, PublicKey neutral, cb = (null), s = (null), rid = [106]"Microsoft-Windows-Branding-Ultimate-Client-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~en-US~6.1.7601.17514.BUC Namespace", rah = (null), manpath = (null), catpath = (null), ed = 0, disp = 0)[gle=0x80073701] 2011-02-27 17:17:43, Info CBS Failed to pin deployment while resolving Update: BUC Namespace from file: (null) [HRESULT = 0x80073701 - ERROR_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING] 2011-02-27 17:17:43, Info CBS Failed to resolve item[0] in Package: Microsoft-Windows-Branding-Ultimate-Client-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~en-US~6.1.7601.17514, Update: BUC Namespace [HRESULT = 0x80073701 - ERROR_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING] 2011-02-27 17:17:43, Info CBS Failed to resolve execution update. [HRESULT = 0x80073701 - ERROR_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING] 2011-02-27 17:17:43, Error CBS Failed to resolve execution package: Microsoft-Windows-Branding-Ultimate-Client-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~en-US~6.1.7601.17514 [HRESULT = 0x80073701 - ERROR_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING] 2011-02-27 17:17:43, Info CSI 00000252@2011/2/27:17:17:43.725 CSI Transaction @0xf124c8 destroyed 2011-02-27 17:17:43, Info CBS Perf: Resolve chain complete. 2011-02-27 17:17:43, Info CBS Failed to resolve execution chain. [HRESULT = 0x80073701 - ERROR_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING] 2011-02-27 17:17:43, Error CBS Failed to process Multi-phase execution. [HRESULT = 0x80073701 - ERROR_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING] 2011-02-27 17:17:43, Info CBS WER: Generating failure report for package: Package_for_KB976932~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~~6.1.1.17514, status: 0x80073701, failure source: Resolve, start state: Absent, target state: Staged, client id: SP Coordinater Engine 2011-02-27 17:17:43, Info CBS Failed to query DisableWerReporting flag. Assuming not set... [HRESULT = 0x80070002 - ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND] 2011-02-27 17:17:43, Info CBS Failed to add %windir%\winsxs\pending.xml to WER report because it is missing. Continuing without it... 2011-02-27 17:17:43, Info CBS Failed to add %windir%\winsxs\pending.xml.bad to WER report because it is missing. Continuing without it... 2011-02-27 17:17:44, Info CBS Reboot

Fingers February 27, 2011 at 19:41:13

I cannot translate that for you, maybe someone else here can. If not, you may in the end wind up either trying a repair of windows, or possibly a back up followed by a factory restore followed by a Windows update, followed by reinstalling everything else (except I would recommend skip the McAfee and go with something better -- not Norton either --) You have to be a little bit crazy to keep you from going insane.

jrgboy February 28, 2011 at 01:08:07

Thanks, but I am not prepared to reinstall Windows unless anything goes wrong just for the sake of the sp1 upgrade which I am sure I can live without. I agree about Norton, it made my Vista pc so slow I have emailed Microsoft Download Support Group will all the details. I received a reply from Microsoft , they got me to do a clean reboot disablling all startup services but it still failed with the same error - I have send the CAB file off to them for further investigation..