Update to Vista SP1 (follow up) Failure 0x800F0826

3 November 2008

Here I am, updating some old posts, that I had forgotten about…

Vista Update post

The first one is an update to a one-year-old post about a problem: during Vista SP1 update

Remembering the Issue

The issue was that:

And then Vista tells me it couldn’t install my computer because error 0x800F0826.

And I was thinking of waiting for final release to fix it… Of course, it didn’t work.

This happens when Vista Ultimate is used on a multiboot machine.

Solution

The solution was to give back the bootloader to Vista Bootloader and not Grub. So, configure again the Vista Bootloader and write changes to disk.

Then reboot and update to Vista SP1.

Reinstore Grub as your main Bootloader using the usual tools :D

Jean-Baptiste Kempf

SP1
Upgrades
Vista
Windows

Comments

  1. On 2 May 2020, 9:47 by Dan

    hey, I know this is a fairly old issue, but if you could either post back, or email me a guide on how to switch to Vista bootloader and then back to grub, please do so. Because I have a dual boot ubuntu vista laptop, and I don’t know how grub got on there (probably during the ubuntu install) and therefore I don’t know what “the usual tools” are.

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