Updating a Win 8.1 laptop

[computamedic]

I have been running WSUS for a while on a range of hardware and OS'es but I have an HP laptop at the moment which refuses to run the UpdateInstaller.

It's a fresh install of Windows 8.1 (inc Update 1) but when I attempt to run UpdateInstaller from a network share (where it has successfully run on other machines) it always returns an error "The parameter is incorrect".

It's a 64-bit Windows 8.1 and the WSUS is the latest 9.2.1 updated and run only minutes before.

Has anyone any idea why this error occurs and, better still, what I can do to overcome it?

Regards

Dave

[aker]

Please post a screenshot of the error message.

Is your network share mounted as network drive?
Please try it from a local HDD.

[computamedic]

Thanks for the response. I normally have run the Client Update with the network share NOT assigned to a drive letter although in this instance I have tried both with and without - with the same result.

I even deleted the entire WSUS installation this morning and re-installed it all - and still the same happens. I have run the new installation on both a regular Windows 7 Pro system and the same thing running on an iMac under Parallels 9, both without problems but the Windows 8.1 machine refuses to run with the error message reproduced below.

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Windows 8.1 error message

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[computamedic]

As quick follow-up. I installed WSUS on an external USB hard drive - and it runs fine on the 8.1 system. The original installation that would not run on 8.1 was on a Synology NAS. Strange that Windows 7 & XP seem quite happy to run from the NAS.

Regards

Dave

[aker]

You need to mount the network path as a network drive using "net use" in an administrative cmd, if you want to use wsusou from a network drive.