Win10 upgrade asking me to uninstall already-removed Acronis software

steve108 said:

Enable or Disable Hibernate in Windows 10 this will disable fast startup too

I do not have hibernation enabled.

Fast startup is triggering the scanning all of my drives? That seems like it would be *slow* startup : )

Also, I ran chkdsk on many of the partitions Windows so badly wanted scanned. No errors found.

Fast startup is know to cause issues in some cases - you can enable it later if it doesn't solve your problem.

steve108 said:

Fast startup is know to cause issues in some cases - you can enable it later if it doesn't solve your problem.

Unfortunately I can't do anything in Win10 because I can't get back in. I get the logo screen ... it shows quickly that some update is 100%. Then it goes to the next spinning dots screen where nothing happens other than spinning dots. Though it looks like there is a lot of disk i/o going on based on the disk i/o light on my pc.

Is there any logging or verbose mode to see what it's actually doing or getting hung up on?

It was working fine until I ran System Update and rebooted. I thought I was in the home stretch of this arduous process ...

Ghot said:

Here ya go.

So you are basically suggesting that the upgrade install's end result is some sort of Frankenstein type of installation that will be problematic ...

If you boot now are you booting windows 7 on the same or a different disk drive?

Are you willing to rollback Windows 10 for troubleshooting?


Find a flash drive that you can format (> or = 8 GB)

Create a bootable Windows 10 iso 20H2:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...load/windows10
Download Windows 10 ISO File
Create Bootable USB Flash Drive to Install Windows 10

Ghot said:

Yeah. That's the same reason that when I had to switch to Win 10 from a flawless Win 7 install (because there were no Win 7 drivers for my new motherboard), I went with a clean install.

Even though, a few programs that I really relied on, wouldn't work on Win 10, and I would lose all my years of tweaks and customizations.
I did the same when I went from Win XP to Win 7, or from Win 98 to Win XP...etc., etc., etc.

I've done plenty of clean installs in the past as well.

I think I was almost in the clear here and just had a lapse in judgement ... because System Update had like 30 driver updates, and I should have installed those first before doing anything else. Specifically, it had driver updates I could not find before upgrading.

Help get me back in and I think I can stabilize things.

There's no reason the Windows installation itself should be problematic.

If it's still a problem, then I'm going to simply install VirtualBox on my Win 7 and add a Win 10 instance there. I wouldn't be bothering to upgrade right now, but Turbotax no longer supports Win 7 - so my need to upgrade right now is being driven my a single piece of software. Otherwise plan was - build new PC in a few months, do clean install.

I've invested so much time and come so far ...

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zbook said:

If you boot now are you booting windows 7 on the same or a different disk drive?

Are you willing to rollback Windows 10 for troubleshooting?


Find a flash drive that you can format (> or = 8 GB)

Create a bootable Windows 10 iso 20H2:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...load/windows10
Download Windows 10 ISO File
Create Bootable USB Flash Drive to Install Windows 10

SSD1 = Win 7
SSD2 = Win 10

Two different drives.

I already have the bootable Win10 USB ...

The Win10 upgrade is just a few hours old - nothing really new there yet, so yes I can roll it back if there is something to roll it back to.

Boot to the Windows 10 iso >
a) run startup repair > indicate results and whether it does or does not create a srttrail.txt
b) perform a system restore > indicate if no restore points were available or report results
c) open command prompt
d) type: DISM /image:X:\ /cleanup-image /revertpendingactions
e) reboot

d) find another flash drive and save results to the drive for these steps:

bcdedit /enum
bcdedit | find "osdevice"
wmic qfe list brief /format:table
dism /online /get-packages /format:table

Code:

diskpart
lis dis
lis vol
sel dis 0
det dis
lis par
sel par 1
det par
sel par 2
det par
sel par 3
det par
sel par 4
det par
sel par 5
det par
sel par 6
det par
sel dis 1
det dis
lis par
sel par 1
det par
sel par 2
det par
sel par 3
det par
sel par 4
det par
sel par 5
det par
sel par 6
det par
sel dis 2
det dis
lis par
sel par 1
det par
sel par 2
det par
sel par 3
det par
sel par 4
det par
sel par 5
det par
sel par 6
det par

zbook said:

Boot to the Windows 10 iso >
a) run startup repair > indicate results and whether it does or does not create a srttrail.txt
b) perform a system restore > indicate if no restore points were available or report results
c) open command prompt
d) type: DISM /image:X:\ /cleanup-image /revertpendingactions
e) reboot

d) find another flash drive and save results to the drive for these steps:

bcdedit /enum
bcdedit | find "osdevice"
wmic qfe list brief /format:table
dism /online /get-packages /format:table

Code:

diskpart
lis dis
lis vol
sel dis 0
det dis
lis par
sel par 1
det par
sel par 2
det par
sel par 3
det par
sel par 4
det par
sel par 5
det par
sel par 6
det par
sel dis 1
det dis
lis par
sel par 1
det par
sel par 2
det par
sel par 3
det par
sel par 4
det par
sel par 5
det par
sel par 6
det par
sel dis 2
det dis
lis par
sel par 1
det par
sel par 2
det par
sel par 3
det par
sel par 4
det par
sel par 5
det par
sel par 6
det par

There are two step d's - should the second one be step f?

I'm not following the second step d. What exactly is that going to attempt to do?

Also, what does the first step d attempt to do?

Thanks!