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Meanwhile I can't even upgrade from Windows 10 20H2, which I dual boot with Arch Linux, to 21H1. I get a useless and unhelpful error message and then the update
by nly 5y ago
Meanwhile I can't even upgrade from Windows 10 20H2, which I dual boot with Arch Linux, to 21H1. I get a useless and unhelpful error message and then the update rolls itself back.
Microsoft have been seriously failing on the Windows Update front for decades.
- qayxc 5y agoI upgraded an 11 year old laptop (1st gen Intel Core, no UEFI, no TPM) no problem. It's unsupported but works just fine. The trick on how to do it is embarrassingly simple. Just download both the Windows 10 and Windows 11 ISOs, replace the "install.wim" in the Windows 10 ISO with the one from the Windows 11 ISO (it's conveniently the same file name) and run the setup. The upgrade works just fine since the Windows 10 installer doesn't check for supported hardware, TPM or secure boot. Really goes to show how all that TPM, secure boot and CPU support business is just a marketing ploy to increase hardware sales...
- nly 5y agoI'm talking about upgrading Windows 10 to Windows 10
- qayxc 5y ago> I'm talking about upgrading Windows 10 to Windows 10 I assume you meant Windows 10 to Windows 11? Because that's exactly what I described. The setup on the Windows 10 ISO (once you replaced the "install.wim" with the Window 11 file) will perform an in-place upgrade. All programs, data and settings are preserved.
- baseballdork 5y agoNo, GP means upgrading from one Win10 release to the next. 20H2[1] to 21H1[2]. 1 - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/whats-new-windows-10-version-20h2 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/whats-new... 2 - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/whats-new-windows-10-version-21h1 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/whats-new...
- qayxc 5y agoAh, I see. Thanks for clearing that up.
- geodel 5y agoOh, I ran into almost similar problem you described, tried all kind of debugging tools and such to fix problem. In the end I remember some link took me to Windows download website. From there it just downloaded this new H2 release and installed without problem.
- no_time 5y agoDid you remove edge by chance? I had an update some time ago that rolled itself back because edge not being present on the system was not a handled edge case.
- NathanielK 5y agoMe too. Human readable error messages sure would be nice. Instead the PC just does it's own thing instead of restarting and being there when I need it.