Behalf Of Stephen Price
|Sent: Friday, 25 February 2011 2:03 AM
|To: ozDotNet
|Subject: Re: [OT] Win7 SP1 failure - hardware fragility
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|Three 64Bit machines updated here, all went without a hitch. I even tempted
|fate by doing the laptop with less than 1hr of battery life left and the sp
Three 64Bit machines updated here, all went without a hitch. I even tempted
fate by doing the laptop with less than 1hr of battery life left and the sp
installer told me to get off my arse and go and get the power cable. Said it
would wait for me.
I was a rebel and ignored the message to close ever
Just to give some balance to the negative (and a desire to avoid that thing
called "work") my story goes a lot better.
I've got 3 win7 boxes at home - a (slightly old) 32bit dell laptop (d820), a
32bit desktop, and a 64bit compaq laptop.
I upgraded both the 32bit machines last night. Besides a sma
Continuing the hardware failure theme, this morning I used Windows Update to
do the Win7 SP1 patch (64-bit), and have spent 100 minutes getting my system
to boot again after the install's first reboot.
The system restore (back to prior SP1) failed - "unspecified error" - and
after a lot of frigg
