After quite many hours of research on the web and trying to connect different issues relating to Virtual Disk Service I have concluded and confirmed that my problem is a bug of some sorts which dates...

... and that fails with the same errors as windows update and windows 10 update assistant. The log I posted previously complaining about not able to create VDS loader instance.

I have done countless reboots during this ordeal, so its safe to say that restarting won't help here.

Ok so I made a system clone. Trying to do a repair install with 1709 by booting from USB says that a install media upgrade is not available and I should run it from windows. If I run the installer...

In my book this does not constitute as a fix (as a reinstall has always been an option) but this has taken all my free time past two weeks so Ill try the in place upgrade as soon as I find a...

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Removes apps and drivers you installed.

So basically ill have to reinstall programs and "stuff" again?

Hello

For some months I have had a problem on my Windows 10 Pro (1607) desktop where I cannot use "Create and format hard disk partitions" Start Menu item, diskpart on elevated and non-elevated...