f14tomcat thank you very much for the direction on this. I tried the update one more time with my 3rd party AV disabled and it failed again so I made the decision to take the route you outlined...

Again F14Tomcat thank you for the information above that you have provided me. I really appreciate your help. I am sorry to mislead you on my last post but I have not actually quit participating in...

Thank you for this F14Tomcat. I thought of this very thing after I posted a reply to your previous post and made the necessary insider changes and tried to update to the latest build once available....

I am well aware of this. I am a software developer and although I don't implement or "release" on the magnitude and complexity that Microsoft does it is fair to say that if I implemented software to...

Thank you guys for this. Sorry for late reply. Say F14tomcat you mentioned "getting myself updated to build 14942". I am currently at build 14931 as a participant in the insider program. My machine...

Trust me, I am oh so aware of this. By the way....I did make my feelings known by all the avenues you outlined. I even sent my best carrier pigeon, but like everything else pertaining to Microsoft,...

I was just finally able to update to Windows 10 build 14931 after working on it for about a week on and off. By all appearances the update looks successful and my machine seems to work just fine...

Actually just figured this out. What I did was plug the external hard drive into an older dell I have running windows 7 and this machine recognized it in disk management. However would not let me...

It is a powered external enclosure. I thought that was the issue doing my research as I originally had it in an stand-alone (? - basically I will say no power supply) ORICO enclosure and it was using...

I recently purchased a Seagate Momentus 5400.6 hard drive and a Sabrent USB 3.0 SATA Hard Drive flat docking station to connect via usb to my Dell XPS L702x laptop. Upon putting the hard drive in the...