Windows 10: Trainwreck of errors related to seemingly-normal Win10 updates - help!

Being Cajun I sometimes think as slow as I talk *Redface so could the OP explain exactly what he meant by this: "I then tried this approach - Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade Installation Upgrade Tutorials - using an ISO file downloaded to a USB drive. However, when I mounted and ran the ISO"

Are you saying you mounted the ISO from the USB drive, or did you move it to the desktop and mount it before trying the upgrade ?

 

When performing an in place upgrade repair the Windows 10 iso can have 3 locations:
1) USB drive
2) Optical drive
3) Desktop

To perform an in place upgrade repair you can open file explorer > click on this PC > locate the windows 10 iso > launch setup or setup.exe > follow the text and images in this link:
Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade Installation Upgrade Tutorials

 

Thanks for the opportunity to clarify. I was following the instructions from the link I referenced, that zbook references above as well. The ISO image was created on an external USB drive, then that image, still on the external drive, was "mounted," where it appeared, in the target computer being updated, as Drive F.

 

You could give it another shot or two with the 1709 ISO on the desktop. First just by mounting, then if that doesn't work, 7zipping the ISO open in a new folder. If you can post the log zbook mentioned, someone other than me might be able to give better advice. You possibly may need to update some drivers or have you already checked that ?

 

It's now all in the hands of the repair shop. I had tried enough, that didn't work, but at least I had broken nothing to that point. I figured I was getting to the point where I'd make a mess I couldn't clean up, so offloaded it. Looking forward, once it's fixed, to hearing what they did.

 

You're wiser that most people I know *Smile

 

Smart move:

After two days of hair-pulling it's time to say "enough is enough".

Best of luck.

 

Not unless your name is @Kari (our redoubtable TenForums Team Member). He just spent 4+ days getting Insider Preview Build 17074 to work on his laptop. Here are links to the story of what it took to fix his problems, in two parts. If anything, this just underscores the OP's sagacity in crying "Uncle" sooner!
Part 1: https://win10.guru/insider-build-upg...n-as-a-laptop/
https://win10.guru/the-tale-of-a-bri...ptop-part-two/
It's amazing what Windows makes us do sometimes!
--Ed--

 

shameless plug and why not *Smile

 

@tonez
I don't have that kind of patience or persistence. I'd have clean installed the Current Branch version (1709) after 1 day, and lived with it until the next Insider Preview came out. It's a matter of temperament and inclination, to a large extent. I'm too impatient, and I have too much else to do, so I simply CAN'T spend 4 days rebuilding a system. I learned a lot from watching Kari go through, and from editing his work to report on his experiences. Glad you found it interesting enough to comment on, at least. Thanks,
--Ed--

 

Thanks Ed.

I'm bookmarking that link so that I can use it the next time someone claims, "W10 is perfect and nothing ever goes wrong".

 

#Lehnerus2000 Heh! Heh! By the time he'd finished I believe Kari's attitude was more like "W10 is perfect BECAUSE so much goes wrong, thereby providing lengthy if not infinite opportunities for entertainment and engagement..." I take this as a variation on the old joke: "Q: Why are you beating your head against the wall? A: Because it feels so good when I stop!"
--Ed--

 

Wow... sometimes "upgrade the system bios" means just that.

My local repair shop fixed the problems... by, yes, upgrading the system BIOS. Apparently, Build 1709, or something over the summer of 2017, would not work until we did so, and we hadn't. It had something to do with the graphics processors I think.

Bless the shop, which saw the diagnostics I had done, and listened to me telling what I'd done, and so only charged me $40 for this.

Marking "solved" for obvious - and happy - reasons.

 

Glad it worked out. Needing to upgrade the BIOS and issues with graphics drivers are two things a few face with 1709.

 

*Roflmao2

With W10 it seems that you may as well:

• Create a new text file
• Lay your head on the keyboard and roll it from side to side for a while
• Save the file
• Try to install it as an update

The chances of it working are probably just as good as anything you get via Windows Update. *Sad