SP1 wont uninstall

[Cl1ckm3]

used the RTM sp1 and it wont uninstall.

worked fine till it told me i have 2 days to activate due to hardware change, uninstall couldnt complete so it reverted back...now i'm stuck with it apparantly. had this copy since release day on jan 30th last year and not 1 problem till now...figures
trying to save my auto activations, especially for hardware changes since i think it allows only 1 upgrade.

is there another method to uninstall aside from pograms add/remove menu?
would a system restore work? or anything that might correct it reporting that i have a hardware change...or at the very least a reason why it thinks i changed my hardware?

 

[hans030390]

I also had this issue trying to uninstall it. It simply said it couldn't uninstall, so it reverted the changes...now it seems I'm stuck with it.

 

[NoelS]

Cl1ckm3,

Seems to me a System Restore would work, since it recovers an older registry. If that doesn't work, you could always do a clean install. A PITA, but that would get you out of SP1 completely...

Don't you have a backup image of your OS? If not, it's a good time to start. Go here http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer...000KZF3XE/ref=dp_olp_2 for a new cheap version 10. I have version 11, but I had also used 10 and it's a very good product...

Noel

 

[QuixoticOne]

Yeah try restoring from a system restore point created prior to SP1 installation.

If that doesn't do it, you basically can do a clean reinstall, a partition recovery from a backup you may have, or just let it go on and reactivate.

AFAIK it shouldn't be too problematic to reactivate it; if you haven't REALLY changed much any of the hardware, but just installed some newer drivers that made it see your existing hardware differently, they'd have to be morons to not categorize that as the same system with just software based apparent differences.

Actually even for OEM licenses I think they allow you to do anything in terms of upgrades any number of times except replacing the entire motherboard. And even that may be replaced any time necessary if you're replacing something that "broke" or had to be "repaired / was defective" versus calling it a desired "computer upgrade" situation. So if they give you a hard time, you can always truthfully say the old motherboard/hardware wasn't working and had to be repaired/reinstalled/replaced since given your failure of basic functionality nobody could say that your present system is "working". The only question is whether driver / OS fixes can remedy that or not.

Also check for a new BIOS for your Motherboard as well as any secondary storage related BIOSes you may have on your IDE/SATA/RAID controllers etc.


Oops I mistook your post for someone that was having hardware problems. Anyway try the other stuff and ignore what I said about non-working hardware.

 

[Cl1ckm3]

system restore will not complete

i used my backup and restore complete which of course forced me to install some things again, but still, an odd bug and if the RTM is the same as final release then thats an issue that shouldnt exist and no exuces for them not to fix it if you ask me