RayLopez99 wrote:
On Wednesday, October 10, 2018 at 5:32:06 PM UTC+8, Flasherly wrote:
On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 01:25:00 -0700 (PDT), RayLopez99
wrote:
I decided today to upgrade it back to Windows 10. So I used a USB
hard drive to restore the Macrium image file from several years ago.
Much to my disappointment, for unknown reasons, though I had plenty of
HD space, the Macrium program said (something like): 'no more space on
target' and exited with an error.
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ZAP!
As far as I got -- Poor Testing procedures. I'm heavily into binary
streaming and keep two, sometimes three generations of backup images;-
FOUR when testing software of building, images which -always- need be
first Verified before shuffling the last-out first-in order of
successive backups.
OK I got another one for you. On a 'fast' (for the Philippines) 6 Mbps connection, I am upgrading using Windows 10 built-in Windows Upgrade from the 2015 flavor of Windows 10 to this year's flavor (I think called version 1803, yes "Feature Upgrade to Windows 10, version 1803")
What happens is that when the program is 99% downloaded, I get an error message saying something like 'error: could not complete the upgrade'. Then, when I try and "Retry", it starts from 0% not 99% (very dumb of it, you'd think their download manager was smarter than that but no).
Here is what I found out using WinVer: I have the Windows 10 Home Edition for a 64 bit machine. Windows 10 10.0.10240 (build 10240 from 2015)
But it's not the latest. here is a list of build numbers:
Windows 10 Windows 10 (1809) 10.0.17763
Windows 10 (1803) 10.0.17134
Windows 10 (1709) 10.0.16299
Windows 10 (1703) 10.0.15063
Windows 10 (1607) 10.0.14393
Windows 10 (1511) 10.0.10586
Windows 10 10.0.10240
I have the last one, but I should have a later one.
For the last two days all kinds of files have been downloaded, at 6 Mbps, but again, nothing doing, error message (except for the Windows Defender virus files, which are current).
I think it's because this PC image file of Windows 10 is from 2015 and thus "too far behind" to update properly.
Annoying. But Windows 10 does work.
Any help appreciated.
RL
Sigh.
You should be downloading the DVD. Currently this
says "April 2018" download, and this is the wrong
file. Wait a few days until this says "October 2018"
download.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/soft...load/windows10
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/soft...d/windows10ISO === page offered to
WinXP or Linux
users
You do not want to be using any method that combines
the download phase and the install phase in one step.
If it fails, the download starts over again...
The response of the first URL above is dynamic. If the browser is
run from Win7/8/10, you will get a copy of MediaCreationTool.exe
or similar. The web page offers a small file, and that file
does the download itself and makes an ISO9660 file for you.
If you visit the website using a WinXP or a Linux machine,
you will be offered a different web page, with an actual
ISO9660 file offered for download. The file is stored
in a folder on the server, where the folder is erased
after 24 hours. You have 24 hours to complete the download.
Preparing a DVD from the ISO file, using Imgburn or similar,
gives you an archival copy for future reference. The disc
can be booted to gain access to a Command Prompt and make
repairs to the installed OS for example.
But for the basic Upgrade Install you're trying to do,
once you have the ISO9660 file in hand, right-click it
while you are in Win10 and select "Mount". Then, find
the virtual DVD drive in "My Computer", and run setup.exe
off the virtual DVD drive. That will start the Upgrade Install.
You don't actually need (slow) physical media to do an
Upgrade Install. The process can be done from the
hard drive, using "Mount".
As of yesterday, the above web link was offering 17134 media.
I haven't checked today to see if 17763 media has been
returned for download purposes. It was pulled a few days
ago, because of a data loss problem.
Now, if you want, you could
1) Download 17134 "April 2018" DVD, run setup.exe off the
image and install 17134.
2) Use cleanmgr.exe, remove Windows.old previous OS files
from cleanmgr. *Only* tick the box for removal of
system files. You need to click the system button
near the bottom of the dialog, to get to the
"second level" of cleanmgr.
3) Now, the 17763 will be offered via Windows Update.
At some point. A couple days ago, a machine here
upgraded to 17763 when I didn't want it to. Now,
17763 seems to be turned off again.
It's hard to say, as of this morning, what the
disposition of 17763 is. I'm still offered "April 2018"
from the download link, which is not a good sign.
Paul