Vista - Another Sp1 installation problem

I use a Western Digital 250gb portable Hd for backups to my HP notebook. The last time it tried a scheduled/auto backup, I got a message that the drive was Write protected. I didn't reset it but then I remembered that I had installed the SP 1 update for Ultimate 64 bit which installed w/o a problem. I reset the drive to accept Writing and all seems OK now.
I keep getting messages about programs wanting to access the internet and I usually clicked once to stop them. Since SP 1 it takes 4 clicks to make the message window disappear.
I can live with it but it's an annoyance.

I seem to have cracked it. looking through the logs, I found the original source of the error ie. the true error code. I believe it was a 3754 if memory serves. Anyway, as it turns out, this error was linked to the 80070002 error way back in the development days. (I found a thread in technet from developers corresponding with the Beta development staff). Their advice(not from the microsoft people, still no solution from them) was to insert the disk, and re-run the install as "update", or in my case, "upgrade".
after completing the "upgrade" from x64 to x64, I ran windows installer and installed a crapload of updates. and then got a 8024200D error ( I hope I got the numbers right). Apparently, these two errors are very closely related. I actually got both when trying to install the same patch(not sp1). Microsoft had no information on this topic so I went back to the forums.
I found a veryuseful post that stated simply that windows update often tries to install patches out of order and that by hiding the update which is creating the error, you can trick windows into doing what it should have in the first place. I hope this helps someone else out there

yeah, Vista update is weird in that respect. I did my usual annual reformat - clean up and when it came to the updates, they were all over the place. I had to manually install them in chronological order and in batches of 9 or 10 ( otherwise it'll fail to install )........required at least 8 reboot.

Anyhow...the weird thing is that Vista - in particular Photoshop CS3 - is flying without SP1 installed....so I will not install that just yet as I am enjoying my speedy workflow. Somehow Sp1 clog's up Photoshop as I used to get massive Hard Memory Faults when using PS ( upto 600/sec )...anyhow, back to normal now..

I have installed Vista on 25 lab computers (on iMacs under parallels) and have installed as many as 51 updates simultaneously without losing a single one.

:O
I wonder why I can't do that!!!

A hard fault (also known as a page fault) occurs when the page of the program is no longer in physical memory and has been swapped out or is available from a backing file on disk. It is not an error. However, a high number of hard faults may explain the slow response time of an application if it must continually read data back from disk rather than from physical memory.

Thanks dmex - I was aware it wasn't an error....but with 8gb ram I would have thought the data would stay in RAM and off the scratch disk/ page file......anyway, this a little OT.

lol that it is