My computer has consistently failed to install sp1 for many months now, and I finally tried to install it manually.
I got an error 'ERROR_NOT_SAME_DEVICE', I can only assume this is because of my SDD setup.
'The system cannot move the file to a different disk drive'
I have hard symlinks (junctions) on my C:/ drive that map to the Program Files directory and everything pretty much except for the System files on my D:/ drive (HDD)
However, SP1 doenst seem to like this. Anyway around this? I havent had much luck finding information from searching?
Answer
Rather than using symbolic links, move the folder and change the registry keys as explained here : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5542100/changing-program-files-default-location-in-windows-7
On a side note, I wonder why some programs have issues with symbolic links. It is extremely rare but it happens (Windows update in your case and the other one I can think of is the Bitcoin client)
Check the last post of that thread if you have a 64 bit OS - you have one more registry key to change.
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