Received error 0x8007000e trying to install Windows 7 SP1 x86.

Hello there,

I had the same problem on Windos 7 Ultimate 32bit. On 3 of 4 test systems everything worked fine, the last one failed. In spite of 60GB free HDD space and 4GB RAM the installation end up with "outofmemory". Tracking the memory usage during install showed no more than 30% was used at all. After several trys and more than just a couple of hours I compared all testsystems with each other. The only thing that remains the same on the 3 "good" systems but differs on the "bad" one was the fact that several languagepacks were installed on the "bad".

So I uninstalled all additional languages and started the servicepack 1 installation after rebooting. Not only the installion was successful, the required time decreased from more than 4 hours to around 50 minutes.

Tomorrow I will reinstall the languagepacks.^^

It's no real solution but a workaround. Maybe it will help you to.

Hope to read your feedback and goog luck.

It is not about needing to reclaim space after installing.

It is that the installation doesn't complete because of an error called "ERROR_OUTOFMEMORY(0x8007000e)".

My computer has also 3 GB of RAMs, which is the maximum for Windows 7 x86.

I have 60 GB of harddisk space before installing.

I asked this question last week, but didn't see a reply/answer.  And now I can't find it in the forum so I'm asking again.

I'm trying to installed Windows 7 SP1 through the Windows Update Control Panel.  Each time I try to install it, it would error out with 0x8007000e out of memory error.  The situation is the same.  I click "Install Update" and it sits there for a long time (10+ minutes) and whole time it says 0 KB downloaded (0%)  So I go to bed and come back the next morning and that's when the error pops out.  This is the only update I am having problems with.  If there are multiple updates, I uncheck this one and install everything else.  Then I come back to this one and try again.

I am running Microsoft Securities Essential as my anti-virus.

I read through the knowledge base and ran the all the prerequisites.  I even downloaded SP 1 and tried to install it manually.  I ran the KB947821 to fix whatever is wrong and still no go.  SP1 says it installed properly, but when I go to System, it does not list Service Pack 1 under Windows Edition.  So Windows Update is still asking to install this and it gives the same error 0x8007000e.

I am running a Core i7 computer with 3 GB of memory and 900 GB of free disk space so what kind of memory is it out of?

Thanks.

I'm seeing the exact same problem when trying to update our public workstation base image with Service Pack 1 (it's just a bare install of Windows 7 - no applications or anything!). Sorry I can't offer any help but thought it would be worth mentioning that you're not alone with this problem!

Win7 SP1: Installation tips

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2011/02/16/windows-7-sp1-follow-up.aspx

Strategies for freeing disk space

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Strategies-for-freeing-disk-space

Also see...

How to reclaim space after installing Win7 SP1

http://blogs.technet.com/b/joscon/archive/2011/02/15/how-to-reclaim-space-after-applying-service-pack-1.aspx

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