How to get the Windows 10 May 2019 Update version 1903

Fabler2 said:

It could be that you're running the setup off a USB thumb drive?

That would be crazy, no one uses CD anymore! But no it was definitely the Sound Blaster card/drivers. Have just completed the 1903 upgrade now so will try reinstalling the Sound Blaster on the new Windows...

swarfega said:

Yea clean installed. So its not using Creative drivers from WU?

It was surely complaining of the SB drivers that were installed (I'm doing an in place upgrade). I've uninstalled the SB drivers and 1903 has now installed. Now to see whether it works when I reinstall it...

So I decided to update my HP travel laptop (cheap 32GB emmc drive device, and downloaded 1903 iso, mounted it as a drive and run setup.exe.

First thing I noticed it was more like the windows update assistant in style (no longer blue background) and it was slow checking for updates. After a while, it came up with the dreaded "we cannot update you now due to incompatibilities" type message.

This surprised me as it is a pretty bog standard laptop.

I tried it again and still no joy. Was about to do trick of loading my previously made Macrium image into Hyper-V using ViBoot to see if that worked, when I had a lightbulb moment.

I disabled the WiFi on my laptop and run setup.exe again from mounted iso, and "flabber my gast", it worked and upgraded, and do far everything looks perfect.

So if anybody is getting the ubiquitous "we cannot upgrade now" message, worth a try doing it with internet disabled. Of course, make that all important Macrium Reflect Free image backup first.

jimbo45 said:

Hi there

same here --ripped DVD's to ISO's and ripped CD's to flac and stored all on NAS ages ago-- data type CD ROM's etc just copied to NAS.

Haven't used a DVD / CD for ages -- I probably only use that device for ripping a DVD or 2 for other people. DVD's and other optical media is on the way out as are floppy discs etc.

Some Virtual Machines still require the OS to be installed via an iso or physical device - but I suspect that will change soon.

With 256GB and even bigger capacity micro sd cards cheaply available and micro sd adapters for holding these = we might even see the end of USB thumb drives too in the near future.

Cheers
jimbo

I started the process of ripping my CD collection to my computer in 2008 and I still haven't finished. Everyday I say that I am about 95% done, but I buy so much new music that I still haven't finished the project. I have about 12 terabytes ripped and I am still going.


I need my optical drives because I use them daily. I will finish this darn project before I die.