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How To Fix ERROR_NOT_FOUND 0x80070490 During Windows 7 SP1 Installation
Posted by Artem Russakovskii on May 6th, 2011 in Technology, Tutorials
Updated: May 17th, 2012
Well, this one took ages. And whenever something takes me ages, rather than write it down in my personal notes, I prefer to put it out online for everyone with the same problem to easily find and benefit from.
The problem I'm talking about today is trying to upgrade your Windows 7 installation to SP1 by applying Microsoft's update KB976932, called "Windows 7 Service Pack 1 for x64-based Systems" and getting nothing but a failure every time. The same problem may affect 32-bit systems as well, and I'm not sure what the update number for that would be, but the solution should work for either one.
The update starts just fine, chugs along for 10 minutes or so, then reboots …
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