Windows 10: Can't upgrade to W10 1909 due to bad Realtek driver. 0xC1900101 0x30018

I am trying to upgrade my Windows 10 laptop from version 1809 to version 1909. Each time I try to install the upgrade, the laptop bluescreens halfway through the installation and Windows backs out of the upgrade.


I checked the upgrade logs and found that the upgrade is crashing while trying to install drivers for my laptop's Realtek audio card. I researched this and found that it is a common issue with many PCs. Typical recommendations are to update the driver or to disable the audio card in the UEFI/BIOS.


I already have the latest driver from my laptop manufacturer installed, and Windows Update is unable to find a better driver. There is no option to disable the onboard audio in the UEFI including Advanced settings. I tried disabling the Realtek driver in Device Manager before installing the 1909 update, but that didn't help.


Is there any way to tell Windows 10 not to try to install drivers for a specific device when upgrading to 1909?

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0xC1900101 - 0x30018 Error Upgrading to Windows 10

Some suggestions from Microsoft for 0x30018....

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Microsoft | Resolve Windows 10 upgrade errors : Technical information for IT Pros

 

Error when upgrading to Windows 10: 0xC1900101 – 0x30018

Hi Peter,

There are multiple factors that we need to consider why you’re getting the error “0xC1900101 - 0x30018” when upgrading to Windows 10 Pro 1703. For us to isolate the issue, we will need to ask you a few questions:

• Have you tried all the troubleshooting steps that were provided on this thread?
  
• Since when have you been experiencing this issue?

Regards.

 

Windows 10 Anniversary Upgrade error 0xc1900101 - 0x30018 referring to SYSPREP

OK, please, following you have an updated one step ahead question regarding my first question post on the title.

The question now is, how possibly get some info or tracing/debug on, which possible reason is leading to this error referring to SYSPREP.

In the net I found several posts for this, and the following link do have quite exact instructions what to look at and try, and I have also been following most of them, except maybe one-two, which I now will still follow on a next Upgrade trial in few hours.

-> Windows 10 Upgrade First_Boot Failure with Error 0xC1900101 - 0x30018 - Tech Journey

Here you have a summary of the background info for this case:

• Windows 10 Anniversary Upgrade is stuck at ab. 32% done, in a minute after the second (despite named as FIRST_BOOT) restart at 30%, during the actual final update process phase, with blank grey display and power-on
  
• after an emergency power-off in a quarter or so, the Upgrade trial will got reversed and following error splash window will pop-up:
  
  
• the laptop is some 7yrs old with dual-core AMD 1.9GHz 32-bit, memory 3GB, and has been working great with Windows 10 Pro (updated from 8.1) since 9 months
  
• I know there is outdatings with e.g. display driver, now run with the basic MS one, and Wi-Fi driver etc., but several of the risky devices and also software have been disabled during the Upgrade trials
  

I hope someone could help me some step ahead on this.