Windows Update Not Working after SP3 Blue-screen

[GettingByOk]

Hello,

In June I tried to install SP3 onto my Dell XPS 410 RAID-0 machine. It had
installed fine on an older Dell w/ one hard drive. But on my RAID-0 machine
it blue-screened in both Normal and Safe startup modes. I had to do a Repair
Install of WindowsXP and take it back down to SP2 + IE7 (IE6 would not work
at all after the re-install).

Anyway, about a month after that I started doing Windows Updates. 1-2 wks
ago it said I had 98 patches to install but it wouldn't install any of them.
It now says every time I start the box that I have updates ready but it will
not install them.

Any ideas what's going on?

Thanks,
Robert

 

[Mick Murphy]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144

Read the above MS link re update probs after reinstalling XP.

 

[Andrew E.]

Simple enough,download windows installer v4.5,install,then go to run,type:
msiexec /unregister Return to run,type:msiexec /regserver Return to run,
type:services.msc In msc,scroll to installer,double click,start
service,set to
auto,from manual start,exit msc
Also,before SP2 or SP3,set to have CHKDSK C: Run on restart before you
restart after either installation,XP will usually always run if in place...

 

[GettingByOk]

Dear Mr. Hem,
I am not going to reformat my hard drive.
Robert

 

[GettingByOk]

Mick, Andrew,

Thank you both very much.

Mick, that article seemed to clarify things somewhat (hopefully
completely.....)

Andrew, how do you do the following from your note:

"Also,before SP2 or SP3,set to have CHKDSK C: Run on restart before you
restart after either installation,XP will usually always run if in place..."

Thanks,
Robert