Vista Ultimate SP1 will not install

After downloading a package including SP1, following install protocol produces error code 80070002.
  Attempting to install from online access produces error code 8024200D
Microsoft now recommends an inplace upgrade. But that requires the installation DVD and product code.
Lenovo did not provide an installation DVD or a product code.
Any ideas ? 
New in early April 2008 Lenovo T61

Hi
According to MS, error code 8024200D implies that all necessary previous updates were not installed properly, hence SP1 will not install. Here is a good explanation of error code 80070002 and a possible fix for that issue.
How to fix this problem (successful SP1 install) entirely? I wouldn't know where to start, quite frankly. There have been numerous threads here in these forums regarding both "error" codes - I'd advise you to search the forums entering only the error code to see what comes up. You may also like to search through the forums at http://forum.thinkpads.com (not officially affiliated with Lenovo, but an excellent resource site nonetheless).
Unfortunately, Microsoft really buried itself with all the administrative/security/secretive red-tape with regards to Vista. The same technology they introduced in that operating system meant to forestall "security threats" to the OS is causing huge problems even for a "simple" update. Ironically, even the fine folk at Microsoft don't know how to address many of these "error" codes... (If you search the Microsoft site,using those error codes, you'll see they offer no practical way of resolving the issue)!!!
Partly why I and my clients avoid Vista altogether.
By the way, the first thing you should have done when you received your machine was to make a set of "recovery" disks when prompted at first boot-up. Neither Lenovo nor any other major laptop manufacturer send out copies of the OS with the systems (well, ok, some occasionally do...). 
Regarding the product code, the laptop you received with Vista Ultimate came "pre-activated". The OEM code found on the sticker below your machine is not an installation code for Vista.... So even if you had a DVD of Vista there in front of you and tried to install Vista on the laptop using the code on that OEM sticker, it would accept it but you wouldn't be able to activate Vista with that key. Don't get me wrong, the code is valid, but not for a fresh installation. All it is, is a license code that comes on a pre-activated install of Vista. You'd have to call Microsoft and explain what the situation is and ask them to accept the code found on the sticker on your machine, for which they'll give you a new license and activation code. I really don't know why MS complicates things so much. 
Message Edited by icantux on 07-04-2008 03:03 PM

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