Windows 10 Creators Update available through the Update Assistant

sygnus21 said:

Anyone have a wild guess as to why my laptop refuse to update to any major Microsoft Windows 10 Upgrade?

When the TH upgrade came out laptop failed. Had to do a clean install. When the Anniversary upgrade came out, same issue, same fix… clean install. Now the Creators upgrade… same issue… install failed! Which means another clean install just to get the Creators upgrade.

Never issues on the desktop, just laptop - Asus Zenbook Prime (UX31A-DH71) specs: Intel Core i7 3517U (Ivy), 4GB DDR3 RAM, Intel HD4000 GPU, 238Gig SSD drive, Realtek HD Audio. Windows 10 Pro x64 version 1607 (Build 14393.969). Non insider.

Anyway, as usual, it seems I can’t upgrade to latest major build without doing a clean install

Have you manually updated/installed any drivers? For example downloaded from Asus support page and forced them in to the system? This could be one reason you can not upgrade from build to build. Ever since I became a Windows Insider, I have not touched any of the vendor delivered drivers, but rather let Microsoft take care of the driver updates. No issues on any of my ASUS laptops.

You should really take a look at the upgrade .log-files as suggested many times before in previous posts/replies to your upgrade issue, and post them here so we can help better. Also check the event log for any errors.

A simple, it does not work or the other computer works fine, is not enough, not much to go from with that information.

Interesting little but useful small change in disk management.

sygnus21 said:

At least you looked at it the post. Thanks.

Anyway I stated earlier that I installed Creator on my backup system without issue. That even Office 2010 with Outlook was working for me without issue. I also don't foresee my Office 365 having issues when I update my main rig. That said, I wish I had a solution for your issue, but all I can say is my 2010 Office Professional works with Creator.

The only suggestion I have, regarding updating a system that will not upgrade is, after performing a backup image, to take the drive out from the laptop, hook it up to the desktop, and make a bcdboot entry on the desktop with Bcdboot L:\windows where L: is the drive letter of your laptop windows drive, and reboot into the Laptop drive.

Once it has booted onto the laptop drive and gone thru the starting services... Getting devices ready... Getting ready... routine,and then boots to the desktop, perform the upgrade.

After upgrading, return the drive to the laptop, and if all is well, your system should be upgraded as if it were done on the laptop. It will be able to do future upgrades this way again.

The only issues I have had with this were:

I once had to change a registry setting that Identified my system as a portable operating system (AKA Windows to Go) and so indicated it could not upgrade a USB drive - easily fixed (Windows 10 Update from 8.1 - Thinks I'm trying to install on USB Flash - Solved - Windows 10 Forums)

jimbo45 said:

Hi folks

Don't know what happened but after 2 re-boots it's working fine !!!!



Cheers
jimbo

What happened is that it takes time to populate everything after an install/upgrade. After everything was populated and synced, you got the desired results. Another thing that does not start working straight away is all live-tiles in START. after a while they start to work, update and animate too.

Patience is our friend!

Cheers!