How to get the Windows 10 May 2019 Update version 1903

IronZorg89 said:

You have probably taken care of that part (USB sticks, SD cards...), but there is also that ML (machine learning) thing by MS. On top of that, there is also the fact that MS is rolling out this FU first to new machines with newer hardware and then after to older ones.

By and large, that probably explains why you are still waiting for this FU to show up to your machine.

I think someone here mentioned that it is not based on newer hardware because they got it offered on older machines? We know that their machine learning is in full force, but we don't know exactly what that entails other than they look for outdated drivers, blocked or troubled apps and programs on our PCs. That was some of my precautions I took care of actually. I don't have any USB sticks, SD cards or external drives in use at the moment, and my internal SSD partitions are fine, and even then it's not offered on WU for me. I need to have patience I guess.

Faith said:

I think someone here mentioned that it is not based on newer hardware because they got it offered on older machines? We know that their machine learning is in full force, but we don't know exactly what that entails other than they look for outdated drivers, blocked or troubled apps and programs on our PCs. That was some of my precautions I took care of actually. I don't have any USB sticks, SD cards or external drives in use at the moment, and my internal SSD partitions are fine, and even then it's not offered on WU for me. I need to have patience I guess.

"Got it offered on older machines". I know and I have read about it also and this has been subject of discussion. Another thing I have also read in a recent article that I have yet to find, is that if you have two internal drives (HHD + SSD or any 2...) that could be one of the reasons why you are not receiving the FU.

Consequently, there are lots of things that MS are laying out that we don't fully understand or are not very clear to us. And we are there trying to make sense of it all. Normally, like I always say, the only way to find out what's up with one's machine with regard to this FU is to bite the bullet and force it making sure to have a system image backup before.

meebers said:

I have a pretty old desktop that was born with xp and over the years successfully was updated thru 1809. So now I am going to try 1903 but wanted to use MCT to make a USB flash drive.

I want to start from a fresh formatted SSD no OS.
Mounting an .iso without any OS can't be done????
Looking @ my bios, bootable devices are: Floppy, LS1201, HDD and CD rom ....... a show stopper??
I can do it with a burnt .iso to DVD disk but that's not very exciting??

Suggestions appreciated...

@meebers A clean install is possible from a USB created with MCT onto a new SSD. Upgrades don't work with external storage (USB or other).

No.

There are no restrictions present to install 1903 from a USB created with MCT (Rufus, roll your own).

It is recommend to have only the intended boot device connected when installing so Windows doesn't start sprinkling the partitions here and there. This is a recommendation not a hard and fast rule.

You just can't do an inplace repair / upgrade from a USB as that counts as external storage. It is the update process that rejects some or all external storage devices. To be honest I'm not sure that it is an absolute block as so many people have posted that they done this or that.

I do know that a lot of people have commented that they cannot to the inplace upgrade, me included, with attach storage which includes an SD card inserted. Think Kado had a good way to describe it and I will paraphrase, things that get assigned a drive letter.

meebers said:

Ken, just trying to understand. You said "A clean install is possible from a USB created with MCT" did you mean "A clean install is "NOT" possible.

A clean install is possible using a USB stick. I've done it.