Windows 10: Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14901 for PC

It does always makes me wonder what logics there are behind these upgrades. This time EN-US and Swedish machines got the upgrade straight away, EN-GB and Finnish have yet no trace of it.

 

Didn't get and didn't get. I considered that Wynona had said she was on slow ring from clean install, and it stared down load when she changed back to Fast Ring. I had checked to be sure. Still, nothing this morning, so, like AndreTen mentioned, I tried setting to Slow Ring, and restart. Put it back to Fast Ring and restarted, checked for updates and it started downloading.
Live long and Prosper,

 

OK. Upgraded again. Still freezing at 22%.

OK, challenge boys and girls. If it is the Graphics driver is there any way to stop downloading it in the upgrade?

 

I've just found a Tutorial and will try that.

 

Just tried that. Didn't work for me. *Sad

 

No luck with that. Going to clean install.

 

Maybe. I don't normally wake up once I'm asleep, but the new Build must have called my name. *Tongue

 

My favourite would be Disable the onboard graphics in BIOS and put in a cheap Radeon or GForce clone.
or
Run the upgrade offline
or
Clean install offline

Then install a driver that has worked manually.

Otherwise when stalling at 22%, try Shift+F10 to bring up a commandline, type taskmgr <enter> and see if you can stop the offending process - which may be using CPU or Memory. Taskmgr can also open devmgmt.msc but maybe only perhaps later in the setup.

The only way I got one machine to install (wouldn't upgrade, wouldn't clean install via setup) was to use the "Windows to go" manual method using imagex to apply the Windows 10 WIM image to a clean partition, use BCDBoot to make it bootable, then during the sysprep phase on first boot, open the cmd console with Shift+F10, then open taskmgr and use that to open device manager to disable the problem hardware while the sysprep was still running during the "Getting ready" stage after the "Getting devices ready" had loaded the bad driver. Then the setup was able to finish.

 

OK, I'll digest all that and give them a whirl.

 

Good morning, CPUPro; I woke up at around 3:00 AM and checked. It was waiting for me.

 

Mine sat at 22% for quite awhile, FJK, and then it started up again.

 

Great it worked for somebody else *Smile

 

Tried it and it did work--getting download now.

 

Was the little thingy circle moving? Mine wasn't.

 

Huh.. Still no joy here.