Many thanks for your help and advice.

The steps that resulted in fixing the problem were when I used the recovery disk I made to run the Bootrec bcdrepair command......

I had to run the disk...

Many thanks to everyone.

I have now installed the 2004 update.....

Cheers

MF

I have edited this by hand. The post editor trick doesn't work on text copied down from above:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18363.900](c) 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All rights...

Here is the virtual memory window image

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Many thanks again.

I made a recovery disk with the media creation tool and then used it to fix the bcdedit problem.

I ran the...

Here is the result of the first 12 of the set of diagnostic commands:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18363.900](c) 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.C:\WINDOWS\system32>sfc...

Many thanks again.

I am having to work to delete enough files to spare 20 GB space. I am at 17.7 GB.

I will fix this and try the update.

Regards

MF

Many thanks again.

I can boot the system with the grub 2 boot partition.

I don't need the EFI one.

Regards

MF

Many thanks for your help again.

If I would delete the EFI partition, would it be possible to resize the windows partition to use some of the free disk space available on the disk next to the...

Many thanks for your comments.

I will clean up the disk to greater than 20GB free space.

And then try again.

Regards

MF

Dear All,

I have found some output from the setupdiag run. I have attached it.

Regards

MF

Thanks for the response.

In what directory would the output be if there were any?


Regards

MF

Many thanks for all of your advice and suggestions.

I downloaded setupdiag and tried running it. It briefly opens a command window and then closes it and dies.

Comments appreciated.

Regards...

Many thanks for your response.

The answer is yes. I have been using grub2 for ages now and have not had a problem with updates.

The EFI partition is relatively new. Since I am not using it I...

The second partition I think was an attempt at at UEFI install that I abandoned a little while ago and went back to an ordinary bios install.

It's an abandoned EFI partition.

I have been able...

Many thanks for your reply. I am using a dual boot set up which has both Debian and Gentoo OSes on the same disk alongside Windows.

I have attached a snip file with the disk management output...

Dear All,

I am running Windows 10 v 1909 on an amd64 kaveri box.

I am having difficulty upgrading the 2004 update.

I am getting the 0x80070002 error.

I have tried quite a few different...

I can also open the "MIKEF-PC" folder and then see a directory (C) and then directories below that.

There is also a categories file in there.

Regards

mikef

It might also be helpful to add that when I insert the DVD into the optical drive, a little box appears which has four itmes listed in it.

The first one is "MIKEF-PC" and is a file folder.

The...

I inserted the DVD I have for 20/10/15

It starts reading the directories etc and after a time it says "the media in the drive is not the requested media " (but it is.....) and prompts me to insert...

Dear Swarfega,

Thanks for your kind response. I am not using the file history thing. At least I don't think I am. I thought that only works if you are saving to a hard drive etc.

I think I...

Dear Windows 10 folks,

I recently tried to restore files from some back up DVDs I made using the backup facility in Windows 10.

But there is a problem.

When I try to do this the software...