A question about Windows 10 creators update Installation resumption
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Last evening, i decided to upgrade my home laptop to the Windows 10 Creators Update (it was already running an earlier version Win 10). I started the Windows 10 Upgrade assistant, the download completed, installation got started too & completed but during the final process of now finally configuring the updates, my battery power went off (i wasn't on the mains supply) & the laptop shut down before finalizing the update configuration. To day morning, i start the machine & i get i message that its restoring to the previous version of windows i had, no problem there. I launch the windows 10 upgrade assistant hoping to restart the installation (not the download) of the Windows 10 Creators Update but no, it now want to re-download the whole damn thing. Any one know where on my machine the Windows 10 Upgrade assistant stored what ever it successfully downloaded yesterday so i can re-start my installation there with out waiting another several hours downloading Windows 10 Creators Update again? Can the installation be restarted with out re-downloading?
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Last evening, i decided to upgrade my home laptop to the Windows 10 Creators Update (it was already running an earlier version Win 10). I started the Windows 10 Upgrade assistant, the download completed, installation got started too & completed but during the final process of now finally configuring the updates, my battery power went off (i wasn't on the mains supply) & the laptop shut down before finalizing the update configuration. To day morning, i start the machine & i get i message that its restoring to the previous version of windows i had, no problem there. I launch the windows 10 upgrade assistant hoping to restart the installation (not the download) of the Windows 10 Creators Update but no, it now want to re-download the whole damn thing. Any one know where on my machine the Windows 10 Upgrade assistant stored what ever it successfully downloaded yesterday so i can re-start my installation there with out waiting another several hours downloading Windows 10 Creators Update again? Can the installation be restarted with out re-downloading?
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Not as far as I know; certainly I could understand a full re-install option, as it doesn't know where it failed (or why) - since the power failed it could have corrupted anything it was doing. The restore will overwrite all interim changes to get you back to a working setup, so there is nothing to continue from. It's possible that the download will be pretty short though, it depends how much of the original update file(s) it had left undeleted when it failed. But if it's in doubt, I'd restart the download from scratch just to be on the safe side.
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Not as far as I know; certainly I could understand a full re-install option, as it doesn't know where it failed (or why) - since the power failed it could have corrupted anything it was doing. The restore will overwrite all interim changes to get you back to a working setup, so there is nothing to continue from. It's possible that the download will be pretty short though, it depends how much of the original update file(s) it had left undeleted when it failed. But if it's in doubt, I'd restart the download from scratch just to be on the safe side.
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Ok, now downloading....9%
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Not as far as I know; certainly I could understand a full re-install option, as it doesn't know where it failed (or why) - since the power failed it could have corrupted anything it was doing. The restore will overwrite all interim changes to get you back to a working setup, so there is nothing to continue from. It's possible that the download will be pretty short though, it depends how much of the original update file(s) it had left undeleted when it failed. But if it's in doubt, I'd restart the download from scratch just to be on the safe side.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
as it doesn't know where it failed (or why
I had that impression with most Windows versions in the last ten years.
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Last evening, i decided to upgrade my home laptop to the Windows 10 Creators Update (it was already running an earlier version Win 10). I started the Windows 10 Upgrade assistant, the download completed, installation got started too & completed but during the final process of now finally configuring the updates, my battery power went off (i wasn't on the mains supply) & the laptop shut down before finalizing the update configuration. To day morning, i start the machine & i get i message that its restoring to the previous version of windows i had, no problem there. I launch the windows 10 upgrade assistant hoping to restart the installation (not the download) of the Windows 10 Creators Update but no, it now want to re-download the whole damn thing. Any one know where on my machine the Windows 10 Upgrade assistant stored what ever it successfully downloaded yesterday so i can re-start my installation there with out waiting another several hours downloading Windows 10 Creators Update again? Can the installation be restarted with out re-downloading?
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If you're going to have to get the files re-downloaded anyway, just get the ISO from MSDN and run the installer from within Windows. The upgrade process is practically the same, plus if you ever have the need to reinstall from scratch, you'll have the latest and greatest image already available and ready to go. Not to mention anything about re-downloading from additional machines.
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If you're going to have to get the files re-downloaded anyway, just get the ISO from MSDN and run the installer from within Windows. The upgrade process is practically the same, plus if you ever have the need to reinstall from scratch, you'll have the latest and greatest image already available and ready to go. Not to mention anything about re-downloading from additional machines.
dandy72 wrote:
If you're going to have to get the files re-downloaded anyway, just get the ISO from MSDN and run the installer from within Windows.
Actually, this is strongly backed by the fact that i'm even downloading from a low bandwidth region. Over several hours of waiting & the download is just at 43% now. Cancelled the damn thing & started the media creation tool now to download the ISO over night. Third world problems! I hope what i will eventually get is worthy the suffering i have endured :-D
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dandy72 wrote:
If you're going to have to get the files re-downloaded anyway, just get the ISO from MSDN and run the installer from within Windows.
Actually, this is strongly backed by the fact that i'm even downloading from a low bandwidth region. Over several hours of waiting & the download is just at 43% now. Cancelled the damn thing & started the media creation tool now to download the ISO over night. Third world problems! I hope what i will eventually get is worthy the suffering i have endured :-D
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devenv.exe wrote:
Actually, this is strongly backed by the fact that i'm even downloading from a low bandwidth region.
As someone who can only get 5mbps DSL, this is exactly why I download and archive just about every installer I've ever used. Storage is cheap. My time isn't.
