Hi volksjager...
Well that would be a good idea but it was given to her by her daughter to use when her Dell went belly up. Also I don't think she has the money to do an upgrade to Windows 7. It is strange though that the read on the burner works and reads all the way to allow me to copy a couple of movies to the drive, however it will not complete a recovery set burn past 38% with its CD Creator the Recovery program uses, nor will it burn past 40% using the burning software on the laptop. It has Cyber Link Power to Go.
I believe the burner portion of the drive is going bad and I don't think she wants to spend the money for another one.
I uninstalled the
Norton Internet Security software and the AIM 6 software. I ran all updates and still had no luck so I shut it down and did some research on the inter tubes as one idiot Senator said once.
It appears that Vista updates way differently than XP does. For some reason it would not install SP 1 though it kept showing up to be installed and every time it would say it installed successfully even though it did not. I finally download both SP 1\SP 2 along with the
Norton Removal Tool to be sure everything uninstalled. I also downloaded IE 9 since after all the updates I did it still had IE 7 on it.
I installed SP 1 manually and this time the install took. Then there was another 67 updates which 4 failed. Those that installed did not show back up so when I reran the update it pulled the 4 that failed and finally installed them. Finally when I did the next update it had to update the windows updater before checking for other updates. The next check showed SP 2 so I installed that. After that one on the next check it found another 112 updates being 406mb's. Went ahead and installed and 4 failed on that one. Reran updates and the 4 showed up, installed them this time with no problems. Rechecked and found 5 more plus one optional. Installed them and on recheck it found nothing.
I now have it running Disk De-fragment and whens it done I'm shutting it down for the night. Tomorrow I will see if I can use IE Explorer and if I have any problems I will install Firefox on it. The problem is she uses the Yahoo Search which is part of the HP Software package which shows up on the taskbar on the bottom of the screen as well as in the HP Adviser Program as well as in the Internet Explorer bar on the top of the window.
Right now I just want to get this running so she can get back on line and not have it sitting here getting in my hair. I still have to install her anti virus she uses which is AVG Free and Malware Antimalware Bytes. I know for Malware she needs to be able to access her email at AOL to get the link to download the program. I don't know about AVG but right now she can not access her email.
Like I said she's 80 years old and has bad eye sight. In fact she had a doctors appointment this past Monday to get a shot in her eye so she can drive when she has to. She said she gets a shot every 5 to 8 weeks. Man I'm glad that I don't have to have something like that. Imagine getting a needle stuck in your eye\s.
I do think that the set on the drive that was in the process of being made may have been corrupted but there's no way to truly know. She needs to but a Recovery Set from HP so she has it. And if the drive crashes she will have it to re install to factory. However, I think I would tell her not to install any of the HP software, but that may also be the only way to make a set for emergency. I'm just going to tell her to tell HP that the set got corrupted so they will send her another set at whatever the cost is.
Anyway thanks for the idea. Like I said I just want too get this thing out of the house and out of my hair right now. I spent way too many hours with it already.
If you know anyone running Vista 32 Bit could you find out what there network settings are. What configuration there using to open up the IPv6 which shows limited while the IPv4 shows Internet. For some reason its not able to see the Server both directly connected to the modem-computer and connected to the modem-router-computer. It's set for auto DHCP but its not pulling an IP on the IPv6.
Got to run now. I'll check back when I can and update everyone.
Have a great weekend. Stay safe and watch the fireworks which will be going on for the next couple of days.