SP3 - what a piece of ****
Just put SP3 on my Thinkpad x60s which I use for fairly critical flight planning functions.
Installs OK and then asks to reboot... the laptop then blue-screens upon reboot. Safe Mode doesn't work (same BSOD). The BSOD says "registry corrupted" but it's deeper... Thinkpad diagnostics report a checksum error from the IDE interface (or something like that) suggesting the KD controller or the HD are duff, but the diagnostics also do manage to open up an explorer view of the HD and offer to restore the files from it.
However, TrueImage10 (which I use on all machines to create a boot CD and an image) boots OK but says it cannot find a hard drive to which to restore an image. Yet TI doesn't use Windoze - it uses its own stuff but it still fails to see the HD. Really weird. I wonder if TI fails to see a SATA HD?
Safe Mode starts up, loads a load of drivers and then does the same BSOD. So this is another recovery avenue lost.
It looks like SP3 corrupted something pretty comprehensively.
A google turns up thousands of hits on PCs rendered useless and having to be restored to shop state. It's an absolute scandal.
I had auto updates disabled on this laptop because auto update runs up massive 3G bills... should have left them like that for ever!
The Lenovo dealer who does repairs on these says he has seen loads of laptops totally lost as a result of SP3.
Does anybody know of something I could try?
I have a TI image backup which is recent enough but if I can't restore it, it is back to square one and a couple of days wasted installing everything.