Windows Media Creation Tool - can I do an UPDATE from a USB boot ?

Thanks.

Bastet said:

You’re welcome. I hope that fixes the problem so you can upgrade to 22H2.

I hope so too, this is seriously driving me nuts.

I won't be able to try again until tomorrow as I have to sort out something else first unrelated to the PC. I'll update when I've tried your suggestion.

Thanks again.

Thanks for the replies.

Regarding Shutup10 - it's not something that installs, you just fire it up, make changes then exit. It also has an option to set everything back to their default values which is what I did.

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Bastet said:

You’re welcome. I hope that fixes the problem so you can upgrade to 22H2.

Well, the torturous and sorry tale continues ..........

I have twice now tried to do an update from the 1909 ISO but hit on the exact same issue both times: The main update from the ISO goes just fine and the PC reboots then starts to install from there. It gets to 60% then errors with:

Windows could not configure one or more system components

To install Windows restart the computer and then restart the install

on a restart it goes through 'undoing the changes', etc. On logging into Windows it then displays a dialog box with:

The Installation Failed in the FIRST_BOOT Phase

and it shows the error:

0xC1900101 – 0x30018

There was very slightly more text to it than that and I forgot to take a screenshot, however the above is correct as far as it goes as I wrote down the key parts above.

I had detached the external devices except for keyboard and mouse.

One thing I forgot to do was disable the antivirus, should that make a difference?

Any more ideas please?

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Any more ideas please anyone?

Currently tempted to ditch Windows and switch to Linux ........ this has been such a huge pain of a problem.

Thanks for all of your help.

I don't have such a system image I'm sorry to say.

No worries about the drive contents though as I do a backup clone to an identical drive every so often.