In the Event of
Windows 7 service pack 1 corrupting your OS
You should get a
fatal error on boot underneath the windows logo.
This Is normally caused by a power outage or the machine being turned off during the update
to service pack 1
- Restart
the computer and boot into startup repair
- Once
the repair utility start scanning hit cancel and click through till you can
access the ‘View advanced options for recovery and support’.
- Open
Command prompt
- Type
%windir%\system32\notepad.exe
and hit enter
- Once
notepad has opened go to; File>Open.(set to view all files instead of
just .txt.) then browse to the OS partition then into the Windows
folder then open the folder named Winsxs e.g:
C:\Windows\winsxs
- Once
you are in this folder find Pending.xml and make a copy of it!!, Once
you have a backup copy of the xml open the original.
- When
this is open hit ‘CTRL’ + ‘F’ into the search box type the following
exactly: ‘0000000000000000.cdf-ms’.
- Once
you have found this delete the following text
<Checkpoint/>
<DeleteFile
path="\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\_0000000000000000.cdf-ms"/>
<MoveFile source="\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\e56db1db48d4cb0199440000b01de419._0000000000000000.cdf-ms"
destination="\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\_0000000000000000.cdf-ms"/>
- DO
NOT REMOVE ANY OTHER BITS OF TEXT
- Save
the file and close it, exit out of command prompt.
- Reboot
computer and start windows normally.
Windows may take some time to
boot (Looking like its stalled on the windows splash screen) don’t panic it
isn’t broken just leave it for upto 10 mins and your machine should be back to
normal.
