Skybuck Flying wrote:
Dude - too much crossposting!
You should have posted this to the proper groups, like a Windows 7 group.
Nobody in nl.politiek cares about your computer problems. Or comp.arch
for that matter.
To do the Service Pack, there is likely to be a "Servicing Stack"
update that gets done first. The "Servicing Stack" update is
meant to prevent hacked copies of Windows from working. It
identifies the methods known to date, of bypassing activation.
Such an update is not typically un-installable. So that's the
first thing you'd have to know about, is whether there are any
"black hole" style updates that get installed first.
There is a "System Readiness Tool" you can run, to verify the Store
on your install is good. This is run, before you install SP1.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20858
The Windows 7 SP1 files, are available separately. You don't have
to run the Windows Update over and over again, hoping the results
will be different. By having these files in hand, you can do the
install directly from disk. No Windows Update involved. One of
these two files, is the one you want. One is for 64 bit Windows,
the second one is for 32 bit (x86) windows.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5842
windows6.1-KB976932-X64.exe 903.2 MB
windows6.1-KB976932-X86.exe 537.8 MB
A site like
sevenforums.com , has a number of tutorials on the
care and feeding of a Windows 7 installation.
http://www.sevenforums.com/windows-updates-activation/139146-windows-7-service-pack-1-faqs-installation-issues-helpful-links.html
I sure hope you did a backup, before you started this update.
While it is highly unlikely the computer will be "bricked" by
SP1, I have read of at least one case, where the computer
could not boot properly afterwards. If the installation of SP1,
makes it to the reboot step, the installation logic concludes
it has "succeeded". If one of the preparation steps *after* the
reboot fails, then the computer stays stuck doing the preparation
over and over again. And is effectively rendered useless. And
this is why you make a backup first!
For most other kinds of installation failures, the installation
can "back out" the changes. That's what has happened in you case.
Paul