https://www.verboon.info/tags/error/Recent content in Error on Anything About ITHugoen-usThu, 24 Feb 2011 19:02:38 +0000https://www.verboon.info/2011/02/observations-for-windows-7-service-pack-1-error-0x800f0a12/Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:02:38 +0000https://www.verboon.info/2011/02/observations-for-windows-7-service-pack-1-error-0x800f0a12/<p>During the past days I have been manually updating a few Windows 7 clients and on two of them I received the error <strong>0x800fa12</strong>.</p> <p> <img src="images/2011-02-24-11h26_01_thumb.png" alt="2011-02-24 11h26_01"> </p> <p>When clicking on the Go online <a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/windows-7-windows-server-2008-r2-service-pack-1-sp1-installation-error-0x800F0A12">link</a> Microsoft mentions the several reasons that could lead to this error.</p> <ul> <li> <pre><code> The system partition isn’t automatically mounted, or made accessible to Windows, during startup. </code></pre> </li> <li> <pre><code> A hard disk containing the system partition was removed prior to beginning SP1 installation. </code></pre> </li> <li> <pre><code> Windows is running on a storage area network (SAN), and access to the system partition has been disabled. </code></pre> </li> <li> <pre><code> A disk management tool from another software manufacturer was used to copy (or clone) the disk or partition on which you’re trying to install SP1 </code></pre> <p>Knowing my systems I could immediately exclude cause 2,3 and 4, so took a closer look at cause 1. Running the command MOUNTVOL /L showed the following result:</p>