Dropbox - KB5034441-debug - Simplify your life

One post I saw suggested that KB5034441 sometimes has issues if the partition is larger than ~900MB, so I made mine 800MB in the last attempt.

Success!
I had tried and failed five or more times to install that update using different 'recipes'. I was going to just delete the recovery partition to be done with it, but when I checked my...

Dropbox - Wmic - Simplify your life

After making another disk image, I successfully used Gparted to expand the recovery partition but the KB5034441 still fails to install and produces the same error code. Then I found this discussion:...

There are a few reports of the above error being caused by older BIOS which may write/corrupt the lower 1MB of RAM . The reports say this does not cause problems for W7 or newer since the OS does not...

The HDS website has problems with downloads. I was able to download it from MajorGeeks. It installed and ran fine.

Dropbox - HDS - Simplify your life

That util is very slow to download/aborts downloads. Until then:

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Cant run on recovery partition



Using diskpart and list vol again shows the drive letter assign for that partition did not 'stick'. I repeated the steps with the same result but was able to...

There was a problem installing Dell SupportAssist and I believe the system became unresponsive and had to be hard reset, explaining both the appcrash report and the unexpected shutdown event....

Dropbox - KB5034441-debug - Simplify your life

TuneupPlus runs cleanly, and I don't see anything unusual in the V2 logs other than a critical error when I tried to run the DotNet troubleshooter....

The clean install recreated my three original partitions 1)system, 2)OS 3)recovery, and now I have a saved disk image. I can restore easily so I am tempted to try once again to prep the partitions...

After the clean install I manually ran the sfc, chkdisk, memtests, hw diags, crystaldisk, with all clean results.

Later I saw the Tuneup plus script nicely bundles some of that, so next time I'll...

Very recently I replaced a bad motherboard. Most or all of those suspicious looking logs date from the time when I was rebooting over and over trying to fix the problem. I didn't realize there would...

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Dropbox - KB5034441-debug - Simplify your life

I have a recent clean install of 10P on MBR with the basic partitions: 1)system, 2)OS, 3)recovery. I thought getting past the KB5034441 update error would be simple since I had managed similar awhile...

That site did the trick, thanks. The purchase was quick with no suspect download required once I setup an acct.
I sure wasn't going to spend even $25 to resurrect this old PC, but for $5 it was...

Thinking back, when the PC was new it came with XP preinstalled. I later upgraded to 7P with a purchased key (prob OEM). I saved the email with that key. I briefly installed 10P during the free...

The troubleshooter only says that it can't activate windows. It gives no details. If I hit "recently changed HW", it wants me to login to an account I don't have. In seems that I would have needed an...

(Re)Activation after identical motherboard replacement.
I had my 2008 era Dell motherboard fail but I was able to find a used MB matching my PC model, bios, cpu. I had saved my old boot drives for...

Here it is almost one year later and on the same PC I had a BSOD and a failure to recognize any boot media. Removing, cleaning, and resetting the M.2 SSD fixed the problem again. It does seem that...

I have failed to diagnose and fix the problem PC. I have placed three different drives in the system and eventually I got the no boot scenario/BSOD on all of them with error code 0xC0000001, or...

It is 64bit HW. I ran W7Px64 for years no issues, and W10Px64 installed, found suitable drivers and ran for a month without a hitch, so if anything I would suspect the most recent updates, or...

The machine is a Dell 630, maybe 16yrs old. Before you laugh, it has been a daily driver that entire time and W10x64 is fast enough for desktop stuff. I have newer machines and will retire this one...

So I restored just the OS partition from the old image using the latest Macrium free rescue iso v8.0.7279 on DVD instead of USB.
The last steps of the restore are:
writing partition table,
...

The PC is strictly W10P now, clean installed about two months ago.
If the Macrium rescue media uses WinPE release 1709, and that is referring to Windows 1709, that dates to 2017. I wonder if this is...