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Feature Upgrades vs Windows To Go
Greetings locked-down insiders! Here’s a challenge for you...
My aging HP Compaq 6120 laptop has been failing to install W10 feature updates since 1709 - it spends an hour or two downloading and installing, then fails at the Safe Boot phase with the delightfully obscure error message ‘IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL.’ MS Tech Support could only suggest a driver that can’t be migrated, which sounds reasonable, but why can’t I find out which driver from the 160 pages of logs?
Having a bit more free time recently (!) I discovered Windows To Go, so decided to try making a bootable WTG USB stick for W10 1809. After many frustrating hours battling with OOBE (the worst program I’ve come across in 50+ years of computing...) I finally succeeded, and now it boots quite happily into W10 1809 and I was able to install drivers for any problem devices by pointing the 1809 Device Manager at the 1709 Windows\System32\DriverStore on my HD.
So...any idea why I can run 1809 perfectly well from my WTG USB stick, but can’t upgrade to it? The only thing I can think of is lack disk space on the HD and it’s true I can only free up ~9GB, but if that’s the issue why doesn’t the upgrade just say so? Surely it must know how much space it needs at the very start..??
Brian