Upgrade Win10 2017

2017-01-12

• Holding down the right-shift while booting seem to work. Who knows why ??
  • OK does not work
• Rebooting with power multiple times wait until HD light stops before rebooting seem to work.
  • Or was it me hitting f8 just after the bios screen disappeared ??

2017-01-11

• Stuck in win 10 repairing boot, hanged msg.
• Got it to boot once, recovery partition boot fix.
  • Created win 10 recovery usb
  • install and ran sophos clean disk, deleted some items
• Reboot stuck again, windows blue logo, no disk activity
• Plan to try this next

  • https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-update/windows-10-is-stuck-in-automatic-repair/90f34230-188c-4694-bd32-c595b8f8b5d9

2017-01-09

• After getting win10 installed on the samsung laptop, i ended with blue windows logo at boot, for ever.
  • Trying this tip to disable fast startup

    • https://www.tenforums.com/installation-setup/25457-windows-10-installation-stuck-blue-logo-no-spinning-dots.html

  • Creating a 16G Win10 rescue disk. Create in Win10 [Start] -> [Rescue Disk]

2017-01-02

• Ran upgrade from the Windows site. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/windows10upgrade

• In the morning it was stuck on a static full screen blue windows logo.
• Rebooted and got error msg.

  •    We couldn't install Windows 10
       We've set your PC back to the way it was right before you started installing Windows 10.
       0xC1900101 - 0x20017
       The installation failed in the SAFE_OS phase with an error during BOOT operation

• http://www.technicalnotes.org/fix-we-couldnt-install-windows-10-error-0xc1900101-0x20017-while-installing/

  • No need to reload, look at c: drive
    • C:\$Windows.~WS\Sources\Windows
    • C:\ESD\Windows\
  • Create a Restore point
  • Uninstall the Broadcom drivers !!!
  • In BIOS disable internal bluetooth and WLAN.
  • Run Setup.exe in C:\$Windows.~WS\Sources\Windows

• From https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/arvindsh/2015/07/07/error-0xc1900101-0x20017-upgrading-to-windows-10-build-10162/

  • Remove hidden Device in "Device Manager" , select from View menu, look under Storage Volumes.

• https://www.tenforums.com/installation-setup/7789-error-0xc1900101-0x20017-when-upgrading-build-10162-a.html

  • run it on Command Prompt with Administrator privileges that way: "chkdsk X:\ /f /r /x"

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