Am I A "Windows 10 Creator" Without Knowing It?

My current W10 Pro Version is 1607 (OS Build 14393.1198). Several times now (see Mysterious W10 Update Error.png) I have received this popup notification, *but* I'm still 96 versions short of the v1703 required for the update, because the updater cannot find the System Reserved Partition.

Now, some backstory ... When my old HP W7 system suddenly died, I updated to their Z240 workstation, because it shipped with W7 and, when I was done with W7, I upgraed for free to HP's version of W10 Pro. Given the version update data I have seen so far, I'm wondering if my running W10 Pro has made me appear to Microsoft as a Windows 10 Creator to whom they are sending such mysterious (to me) updates.

Please be assured that I am neither a Developer or Creator. Therefore, can TenFoums tell me what to do next? If an upgrade is available, what should I be looking for? If Microsoft has me on their Windows 10 Creator's list, how can I remove mysef from it?

RetiredEngineer said:

My current W10 Pro Version is 1607 (OS Build 14393.1198). Several times now (see Mysterious W10 Update Error.png) I have received this popup notification, *but* I'm still 96 versions short of the V1703 required for the update, because the updater cannot find the System Reserved Partition.

Now, some backstory ... When my old HP W7 system died, I updated to their HP Z240 workstation, because it shipped with W7 and, when I was done with the W7 work I wanted to do, I upgraed for free to their version of W10 Pro. Given the version update data I have seen so far, I'm wondering if my running W10 Pro has made me appear to Microsoft as a Windows 10 Creator to whom they are sending such mysterious (to me) updates.

Please be assured that I am neither a Developer or Creator. Therefore, can TenFoums tell me what to do next? That is, if an upgrade is available for W10 Home, what should I be looking for? If Microsoft has me on their Windows 10 Creator's list, how can I remove mysef from it?

This post made my day... :)

The quick answer is that it is likely that you do not have enough free space on your system drive to create the new 450MB system partition, I've seen the error shown on the screenshot a few times and it was always cured by resizing the existing partition(s) to create 500MB of unallocated space at the end of the drive . (ideally this space should be available to extend the existing System partition, but as these are usually at the start of the drive and would need a lot of shuffling of partitions the end of the drive works, (or has in my experience)

Thanks for responding.


Re: "what you believe is on each partition" -- Obviously W10 is on the C: drive; and at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_sy...artition#Usage this Wiki says, "The EFI system partition (ESP) is a partition on a data storage device (usually a hard disk drive or solid-state drive) that is used by computers adhering to the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). When a computer is booted, UEFI firmware loads files stored on the ESP to start installed operating systems and various utilities." Beyond this, I'm clueless, but, if you want, I can try to track this data down with the HP hardware folks who sold me the my Workstation with three years of tech support. For example, I'm not sure W7 is still on my machine, because it may have been overwritten by a "save current OS" step which I recall occuring at the beginning of each of the three W7 installations which were performed.


My backup drive does not show in Disk Management because it is not turned on now.

Re: "what OS's are installed now and where, what other OS's have been installed previously and where." I bought the Z240 Workstation because it came with W7 installed, and an installation disk to replace it with W10 (with their telephone support). I ended up installing W10 *twice* from a thumb drive I used to replace the defective CD-ROM. Beyond this, I'm totally guessing at what the two Recovery Partitions do, other than store the data needed to restore my system to an earlier point in time.

Please let me know what additional disk data you would like me to track down for you, and where to find the tools to do it.

2 Recovery partitions ?

Is this normal ?