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Well, you joined this thread without actually stating anything about the problem you're experiencing, and I have no idea of the state of your PC or the history of it, or even whether the disk is functional.
Why do you wish to do an in-place upgrade repair install?
What problem are you experiencing?
Post a screenshot of your partitions using a 3rd party partition manager.
Perform the following basic checks:
a. Check disk - Hard Disk Sentinel (functional trial) - excellent - includes SSDs.
b. If ok, run
chkdsk c: /scan from an admin command prompt
Did that pass?
c. If so, similarly run
SFC /SCANNOW
and report the summary result (not the lot).
I thought you were attempting an in-place repair of 20H2.. for that you need a 20H2 iso file or bootable USB drive.
See tutorial on how to download an iso file - one way to get 20H2 is the Heidoc iso downloader (free).
Note that if you have not been offered 21H1 by Windows Update, MS may have a Safeguard hold in force that affects your device, protecting you from possible incompatibility. Trying to upgrade manually may or may not bypass that, and lead to problems.
You need to understand that before reaching conclusions like:However, the cause my be different- you apparently already know there's a problem of some kind, and it may be another instance of that.This is rapidly becoming an advertisement for people to switch to linux.
Note: you can clean install Win 10 as many times as you like. Activation should be automatic base on a hash of a form of your device's hardware id which excludes RAM and disk, held on MS's activation servers. (You can tell I've typed that before!)
Last edited by dalchina; 23 Jun 2021 at 00:09.