Windows 10: Windows 10 Preview 14905 -expired -on fast

A volume license means that if you have got it legally, it's from an organisation. In case of Education edition that organisation is most probably a school, university or such. You need to ask their IT department to help you to get a later build, or at least to save your personal documents before starting from scratch and clean installing.

 

yes it is from the university I work at. I am a hardware architect there, and one of the few that are currently running windows 10 at all. I have log in to the volume licensing center and it is an older version then 14905 looking at both education and enterprise versions

and would perfer not to do a fresh installed as I have 2+ tb of apps installed, and another 15tb of media on this system

 

There's not much we can do.

Please do not take this too badly, the following is just my own personal and subjective, really honest opinion: As a hardware tech, an IT pro, you can blame only yourself. Hard to believe a pro lets this happen.

It is and has been quite a while a known fact that older builds will expire now, Microsoft repeatedly posting the warning in release notes of each new build:




(Screenshot from Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14936 for PC and Mobile | Windows Experience Blog )

In your first post you tell us "I have build 14905, and have it set to fast, today was the 1st day in over a month it allowed me to even log in to check that would always get error 0x801901f4.".

You've had a month and a half since release of build 14905 to take care of this issue, for instance if that had happened to me I had immediately after noticing any issues installed Windows 10 Education version 1607 build 14393 on a spare machine, opted in to Fast Ring on that machine and in that way got the latest Insider Fast Ring build upgrade, made an ISO of it and now simply upgraded the problematic machine.

Your 15 TB of media files will not vanish when you start from scratch. Just backup your date before clean installing.

 

BTW, as far as I know build 14905 is not expired yet? Might be I am wrong, I have to test it, can confirm yes or no in about 20 minutes (installing it now on a Hyper-V vm).

EDIT:

OK, checked, build 14905 is really expired. All expiration dates can be seen here: Windows 10 Insider build expiration dates (thanks Cliff *Smile).

 

Code: Build number Release date Expiration License Windows will warnings expiration stop booting begin date 14901 08/11/16 09/17/16 10/01/16 10/15/16 14905 08/17/16 09/17/16 10/01/16 10/15/16 14915 08/17/16 09/17/16 10/01/16 10/15/16[/quote] Windows 10 Insider build expiration dates

 

There is a way to upgrade without losing files to latest version but takes a bit of patience. Another user followed this and got back up and running.

Install release version of windows 10 education in a virtual machine (no need to activate it),

Join Insider Programme inside vm.

After a couple of days or so it will download the updates to latest Insider version.

When it asks you to upgrade, search for hidden install.esd file and save elsewhere.

Then convert the install.esd file to an iso using

ESD to ISO - Create Bootable ISO from Windows 10 ESD File - Windows 10 Forums

The from the expiring build, double click on iso and run setup.exe.

Obviously you need to do it before 15/10/16 when it stops altogether.

 

i have made an iso from the esd files from within a VM I created, it get 30ish % thru the installing windows and fails the install.

Fault bucket 127389505519, type 5
Event Name: WinSetupDiag02
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 125515835531


Problem signature:
P1: 1
P2: 2
P3: 9
P4: 1
P5: 0x80004005
P6: 0x50011
P7: 14905
P8: rs_prerelease
P9: 14936
P10: rs_prerelease


Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: 15ff3be3-899f-11e6-8d38-bc5ff4c8bbd5
Report Status: 8
Hashed bucket: b4db96de82cdd11a7fb5f4af0a21492a

 

You can now get 14931 if you can still boot into your system: Windows 10 Insider Preview ISO Advanced