A happy ending. When I checked the CBS.log for the main partition, one of the errors listed was that the .cab file could not be unpacked...ergo the failure to install. The problem was that I had used 2 different SP1 downloads, so that had to be a mistake...or was it not ? To be on the safe...
re: > Are you running the SP1 installs all from the same source? I used two different downloads of Win 7 32-bit SP1. The file size for both downloads is 550,718 kb The file name is "windows6.1-KB976932-X86" Ideas ?
I have a box with two 500 GB drives and Windows 7 installed in 3 partitions ( one partition in one hard drive and two partitions in the other hard drive). I have 2 additional Win7 installations, which I seldom use, so that I can have a failsafe resource to fix systems problems from in my main...