Windows 10: Can't upgrade my W10

For HD Tune please post images of these scans for each drive/partition: (see tabs)
1) health
2) error or surface scan
3) benchmark

When available please post the chkdsk results for each drive.

 

Here is my chkdsk report. The images are for the tests that you suggest.

Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is Acer.

WARNING! /C parameter specified.
Your drive may still be corrupt even after running CHKDSK.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
625920 file records processed. File verification completed.
21510 large file records processed. 0 bad file records processed.
Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...
738292 index entries processed. Index verification completed.
0 unindexed files scanned. 0 unindexed files recovered to lost and found.
Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...
Cleaning up 14 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 14 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 14 unused security descriptors.
Security descriptor verification completed.
56187 data files processed. CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
40824728 USN bytes processed. Usn Journal verification completed.

Stage 4: Looking for bad clusters in user file data ...
625904 files processed. File data verification completed.

Stage 5: Looking for bad, free clusters ...
103926702 free clusters processed. Free space verification is complete.

Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.
No further action is required.

507543548 KB total disk space.
90798512 KB in 484403 files.
285236 KB in 56188 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
752992 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
415706808 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
126885887 total allocation units on disk.
103926702 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
00 8d 09 00 e9 3e 08 00 4f 0a 0f 00 00 00 00 00 .....>..O.......
a3 02 00 00 4e 61 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....Na..........

Windows has finished checking your disk.

 

Please run each chkdsk /x /f /r and HD Tune on all partitions/drives and post images into the thread.

Checking all drives should clear up any uncertainty about the device which does not exist that may have corruption.

Code: The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur in VolumeId: F:, DeviceName: \Device\HarddiskVolume9. (A device which does not exist was specified.)[/quote]

 

Size does matter!

Apparently my significant if not only problem was the size of my EFI partition. I used one of the many tools recommended by zbook to increase my partition size to 150 MB from 100 MB (88 MB used - only 12 MB available for W10 update). Still no joy, though the update progressed further prior to the dreaded notice "Something went wrong".

After reviewing the plethora of helpful suggestions, I noted that ThrashZone says that the reserved partition needs to be at least 450 MB. So I increased the size to 525 MB and Windows finally updated to the current version (1703 I think).

Thanks to all who contributed to my plea for help on this troubling issue. Special recognition to zbook for the many diagnostic tools referenced. I'll keep them in my utility library. And of course ThrashZone for the ultimate fix.

 

That's great. I'm glad you got it upgraded.
Now you can keep the partitions as is or return them to their prior size.
Were you able to complete the drive studies and fix any possible corruption?

 

I did complete the studies using the helpful tools that you suggested and did not find any file corruption. Chkdsk reported

507543548 KB total disk space.
90798512 KB in 484403 files.
285236 KB in 56188 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.

The other tools didn't report problems, but I'll keep them on hand for further diagnostics in case I ever again have a Windows problem (of course I will).

 

Nice work.
The other option to fix the problem with the upgrade was to remove the foreign languages and fonts which would create more free space within the partition.

 

Hi,
You're quite welcome I'm glad it seemed to work *Smile
Cheers.