issues updating windows 10 to ver. 1709

[Robert17]

I've seen this myself, a few years ago. Here's an MS QA that may help get you sorted out, Here.

 

[steveokinevo]

tried everything on there, hopefully it helps. funny that ive never used a screen saver until recently and it didnt happen until after. power plan was also on balanced, changed to performance.

 

[steveokinevo]

well it froze on me already. and when i go to power settings it wont let me switch to performance, it reverts back to balanced

 

[trents]

Do the freezes happen randomly or under load conditions?

 

[steveokinevo]

completely random.

 

[Robert17]

What Services and Startup apps are you running? Also, when you did the fresh install, did you have any issues?

 

[steveokinevo]

never had these freeze ups before updating...... not once. think i am gonna reinstall with pro again (non N version). its not a whole lot of work.

 

[steveokinevo]

i did however just disable power in services to see if that makes a difference. ill give that a go for a few days or whenever it decides to freeze up (whichever comes first), then reinstall i guess

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

hey all!

im not able to update to the fall creators update (1709). this is what im getting. i have tried about 5 times now.



any help would be great! thanks!

The USB flash drive you have the Windows setup files on, is very likely faulty... (Unless you burned the ISO to a DVD.) I had a similar error message earlier this year, IIRC. And it was because of a faulty USB flash drive. IIRC, I tested it with a Linux distro and it was crawling!

 

[steveokinevo]

that was not from a flash drive. that was directly on the harddrive. flash drive did however work though

 

[Robert17]

Something's missing. Did you reformat your drive and reinstall WinTen?

 

[steveokinevo]

Something's missing. Did you reformat your drive and reinstall WinTen?

nothing is missing. tried to update from windows 10 and it wouldnt work, then setup a flash drive with this same update and it worked. thats it

 

[Robert17]

I will take that as No, you did not reformat and reinstall. That being the case you may have some legacy issues prowling around in your old OS that are conflicting with WinTen.

 

[steveokinevo]

i guess not. i reinstalled fresh from a flash drive. thought that would reformat it.

 

[Robert17]

Not necessarily. If you got the ISO image and are getting the 'free upgrade' deal, then you likely did not have your HDD reformatted; possible but from everything you've posted in the thread leads me to think through to this post. Make a note of your Win7 key, reformat your drive, utilize the Win ISO stick for a clean install, be prepared to enter your key when prompted.

 

[steveokinevo]

im not really sure how to go about it correctly i guess. the 10 version i have came from the media creation tool link i was given on page 1 and installed it from that off a flash drive. before doing this, in bios i booted right to the hardrive. now it says UEFI harddrive. its a little different. im just gonna have to put 7 on it or something. having a hard time here..... trying to get this together before i get this new cooler in. im ready to just reset everything in bios and install 7

 

[JLK03F150]

When you do a clean Win10 install, at some point you are shown a partition table. Delete all partitions, then create a new partition. That will be your new C:\ drive. Win10 will create the other partitions (Win10 reserved stuff) automatically.

 

[steveokinevo]

thats what i did. boooted from the usb drive, deleted everything on C, and reinstalled. that should be good enough? not sure how else to format it while its in use lol

 

[JLK03F150]

When you say you deleted everything, did you delete all partitions for drive 0 then create a single new partition? Sorry if I'm being repetitive.

 

[steveokinevo]

When you say you deleted everything, did you delete all partitions for drive 0 then create a single new partition? Sorry if I'm being repetitive.

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No, it's cool. Wanna get this figured out.

That is what I did. I still had the other 2 drives hooked up though. I know I was told previously to unhook them, but forgot to. Would this be why the issues?