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Windows Vista SP2 Installation Fails with 0x80004005 Error

Microsoft releases service packs for its existing Windows operating systems to eliminate the bugs and to add new capabilities. Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is one of such service packs, which adds several security, reliability, and performance features.

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The Windows Vista SP2 installer needs to identify the system boot files uniquely in order to update them later. For any reason if the process fails, you observe that system cannot install Vista SP2. Consequently, you get an error statement indicating that the installation has failed. The last option to solve such problems is to perform a clean reinstall of the system, which thereby causes data loss. However, you can restore the lost data from a backup, but if the fails too, you need to use an effective Windows Data Recovery solution.

To illustrate such problems, consider a scenario when you attempt to install Windows Vista SP2. The procedure ceases and the following error message is displayed:

Install Windows Service Pack

Installation was not successful
Unspecified error
Error: E_FAIL(0x80004005)

Further, when you view the CBS log, which is located in %windir%\Logs\CBS\CBS.log, the details of the installation process are listed.

Cause

The above error results when Windows Vista SP2 installer cannot recognize the system boot files correctly. This particularly occurs when a third-party disk management tool is being used for cloning the disk or partition(s). As a result, the Vista SP2 installer fails to update the required boot files.

Solution

You can try to prevent this error from occurring by switching off the computer system and then unplugging all the drives that are attached to the system but not required to start the Windows. You can then start the computer and try installing the service pack.

If the above method doesn't work, you can perform a clean install of the operating system as the last resort. Since it causes all the data to delete, you need to restore the data from a backup. However, in case no clean backup is available, you should use a Windows Partition Recovery application. A Windows Data Recovery software uses high-end scanning algorithms to recover and restore deleted data while providing an interactive user-interface.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is an effective utility that recovers lost and deleted data from Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000 based systems. The safe Windows Partition Recovery utility utilizes powerful scanning algorithms to retrieve the inaccessible data. The software supports FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS5 file systems.

About Author

Jacob Luis is a student of Mass Communication and doing research on ntfs data recovery. He is also a file recovery http://www.stellarinfo.com/file-recovery.htm specialist.

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Windows Vista SP2 Installation Fails with 0x80004005 Error