I should've known...
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So I was handed a laptop with Win8.1 last evening to upgrade to 10, since it's now unsupported and major browsers no longer install on it. I figured, this should be straightforward enough. The laptop is slow and using a spinner, but I thought I'd just let it run overnight. Should still be plenty of time. I let it install updates as it went along, the idea being, by the time it's done, it'll be up to date already (or at least that's the theory). Otherwise, if you don't let it, you still have to catch up with whatever updates have been released since the ISO was created (and this is 22H2, the latest). Woke up this morning to a message saying the upgrade failed (and had reverted back to 8.1) "...during INSTALL_UPDATES operation". So much for the time-saver. So I've restarted the upgrade, this time, telling it to stick with the files from the ISO and nothing else. For good measure, Ethernet has been disconnected, and this laptop doesn't know any of my wifi passwords. Hopefully *that* works, otherwise I'm quickly running out of options, and my only other recourse might to be repave. Which I don't wanna do as there's user files all over the place, and the owner doesn't remember half of his passwords.
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Get them to pay for a decent sized SSD and a SATA/USB cable. Do a fresh install for Win10 on the SSD and give it back. They can get their crap off of the old spinner at their convenience.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
The drive is under the keyboard and NOT accessible through a panel on the back. I don't no longer have the finesse (and patience) required to take it apart to reach the drive to replace it. And as mentioned elsewhere, if the files aren't exactly where they were before, they might as well no longer exist.
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So I was handed a laptop with Win8.1 last evening to upgrade to 10, since it's now unsupported and major browsers no longer install on it. I figured, this should be straightforward enough. The laptop is slow and using a spinner, but I thought I'd just let it run overnight. Should still be plenty of time. I let it install updates as it went along, the idea being, by the time it's done, it'll be up to date already (or at least that's the theory). Otherwise, if you don't let it, you still have to catch up with whatever updates have been released since the ISO was created (and this is 22H2, the latest). Woke up this morning to a message saying the upgrade failed (and had reverted back to 8.1) "...during INSTALL_UPDATES operation". So much for the time-saver. So I've restarted the upgrade, this time, telling it to stick with the files from the ISO and nothing else. For good measure, Ethernet has been disconnected, and this laptop doesn't know any of my wifi passwords. Hopefully *that* works, otherwise I'm quickly running out of options, and my only other recourse might to be repave. Which I don't wanna do as there's user files all over the place, and the owner doesn't remember half of his passwords.
Good luck. What you're describing sounds like what I ran into while trying and failing to upgrade my Mom's laptop over my Christmas visit. I'd assumed her systems failure was due to lack of storage space (a pathetic 32GB eMMC onboard, I had to use 1 thumb drive to hold the W10 installer and a second to give it enough temporary storage space to try an upgrade); but if your relic is running into the same problem what I ran into was probably something else.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius
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Good luck. What you're describing sounds like what I ran into while trying and failing to upgrade my Mom's laptop over my Christmas visit. I'd assumed her systems failure was due to lack of storage space (a pathetic 32GB eMMC onboard, I had to use 1 thumb drive to hold the W10 installer and a second to give it enough temporary storage space to try an upgrade); but if your relic is running into the same problem what I ran into was probably something else.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius