Cannot upgrade to Win7 32bit due to Vista 32bit refusing to update to SP1

Wednesday, November 04, 2009 11:30 PMTheRealDilemma

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Hi all,

I have had my lappy since March of 2008. It's an ACER Aspire 5100. When I first got the comp, every time it would update, it would drop a driver. This was obviously annoying, but easily solved. Then it loaded SP1 (the only time it "successfully" loaded). It managed to forget my keyboard, touchpad, and USB drivers. Needless to say, I had to re-install Vista from scratch and try and recover my files.

Since this reinstallation, I have no been able to get SP1 to load. I have gotten so fed up with it that I decided to buy the "Upgrade" to Windows 7. It will not load due to SP1 not being there. I have been trying to get SP1 to load, again, and have tried the following threads, based on error codes recieved.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947366
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947562
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistawu/thread/1a39c623-0d09-4fd7-9227-2b80b0b4f28d
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906602/
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistawu/thread/11d2d843-a649-4927-a451-8ca2182dd8b6/
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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/itprovistasp/thread/3267beb7-e233-4b47-9b4a-30b2fcd3258b/
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I have followed the steps in each of these and have not had any success. I sent an email to microsoft support and was told to expect a reply within one business day, still no reply. If I can't solve this by Friday, I will be demanding a refund for my purchase of Win7 (online), and will be actively looking for a deal on a shiney new MacBook Pro.
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