Originally Posted by townsbg

Originally Posted by niemiro

Originally Posted by Ex_Brit

That's interesting, thanks for posting back. Here's the link without the html tags which made it non-clickable: After Restoring to New Hard Disk, No Windows Updat... - Toshiba Forums

That update is a nightmare. It fails with the error code it is designed to fix. It cannot be installed until that error code is fixed. That error code will not be fixed until that update is installed. A vicious cycle.

I have had to do SO many manual installs of this update to fix the error in the first place, although installing the alternative Intel update is a better option when available.

That's ridiculous. How did that happen?

The problem is that this is not so much a Windows Update failure, rather an incompatibility problem with Advanced Format Disks. It is therefore quite possible that even a format would not actually fix this error.

The best solution is to remove the problematic disk (usually a large hard drive), disable Advanced Formats, install the update, and then reinstall the hardware. The problem arises if the hard disk you have the problem on is also the one you hae you OS installed on. *sigh*

'tis not a good problem! What Microsoft really need to do is to release a flashing utility. I don't know how hard it is to make, presumably extremely hard.