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If you ever do a clean install be sure to disconnect all drives except for you boot drive before you install. After install reconnect your data drives.
If you ever do a clean install be sure to disconnect all drives except for you boot drive before you install. After install reconnect your data drives.
How do you cope with W10, if one or two updates a month for W7 is too many?
There are more updates than that every month for my W10 installs (Home, Pro VM).
How do you survive the 6 month W10 upgrades?
The 1709 upgrade won't install on either of my W10 installs (Home, Pro VM).
The W10 Home laptop has to remain disconnected from the network because it can't successfully install 1709 and there's no way to stop it from trying.
The 1703 upgrade broke the graphics driver in my W10 Pro VM.
The 1709 upgrade won't install in it.
Last Saturday, I spent ~11 hours trying to install it.
I had to download >500MB of updates before I could even start on 1709.
Windows Update tried 6 times, downloaded ~10GB of garbage and failed every time (no BSODs and it gave an error code once).
Windows Update Troubleshooter couldn't fix the problem.
After running the fixes (twice) 1709 still wouldn't install.
I didn't run the "clean and re-download" fix the 2nd time, as I wanted to use my PC for something other than updating W10.
@Callender has suggested another potential fix I can try, but it will have to wait until I can work up enough enthusiasm to attempt it.
I suspect that the only way to fix this mess is to download a new ISO and perform clean installs.
Until early last year I only experienced a few issues with W10.
After that, the W10 Home laptop needed two attempts to install any updates, except Defender (i.e. on the first attempt all updates always fail to install).
The W10 Home laptop has a 3rd party browser and media player installed, everything else is MS default (e.g. no 3rd party AV).
The W10 Pro VM has more software installed, but no 3rd party AV.
The unstoppable telemetry that is supposed to be making W10 better is actually making it worse.
If someone removed Windows Update W10 would be reasonably nice.
My W10 installs run smoothly, when they're not being broken/disrupted by updates.
Had trouble with 1709 also.
Got it installed eventually via Update method in this link:
Download Windows 10
However the upgrade resulted in a "COM Surrogate Stopped Working" error when start menu is clicked.
Looks like it is time for a wipe and clean install.
It just assures one is reinstalling on the desired drive or partition. Sometimes Windows likes to take the one with the most room and that can lead to problems. Or in other words, remove as many variables as possible.
Win10 has been described as a service by writers, will have changes more frequently that Win7 and earlier with their Service Packs.
Glad to see you have it installed. Which OS did you come from?
Personally I leave all drives in the machine and direct the install with the custom choice, unless there's a known issue with a particular drive. May take a little longer, but the OS then knows what it has to manage so far as peripherals.
Last edited by Tony K; 18 Jan 2018 at 19:55.