1903 Update stuck at 86% – no disk activty

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So after MS notices about my 1803 edition coming to end of support I started getting messages in Update about “coming soon to your computer”. So I took a chance and started the process as offered. The update progressed OK for quite a while, albeit slowly as this is an older machine, rebooted and seemed on the way to completion. Now been sitting for hours at 86% completion with no disk activity. Is there a recovery process? I would like to pull a few files and suppose I can use a Live CD to access them.

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Let it sit for 24 hours and see if it will complete.

If it doesn’t after that time, try Crtl-Alt-Del and see if it will do a warm reboot.
Worst case scenario (we hope) is it will revert to the previous version if it doesn’t complete the 1903 install.

You DID make a full disk image and a separate backup of your data BEFORE you decided t0 start this upgrade, didn’t you?

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[BrianB]

I have the same issue. I posted getting stuck at 94% without a login so apologies for that anonymous post. Regarding the above, is there any way to download the 1903 update and apply it manually?

Brian

• This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by BrianB.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by BrianB.

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I am having the same issue. I get stuck on 94% of the installation phase. The download is fine. I did make an image copy which I restored and repeated the install and it gets stuck at 94% again . If I do a reboot, windows update says it failed to install I think with no damage, but I did an image restore anyway.

How do I get past this and get a successful install?

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I gave up on getting Windows Update to complete successfully. I found the standalone Installer via Windows Update Assistant (Windows10Upgrade9252.exe).

I did an image restore and ran the update assistance. This took nearly 6 hours on my fast machine with 16GB to reach 99% with 4 hours of that from 90-99%.

And there it stuck. It stayed at 99% and never completed . Very frustrating.

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BrianB wrote:

is there any way to download the 1903 update and apply it manually?

Why ?

Has Microsoft pushed 1903 to you or did you run ‘check for update’ ?

To download 1903 ISO try HeiDoc.net

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MS pushed it to me via Windows Update and gave me the option to install. I waited until patch Tuesday yesterday and installed. It gets stuck.

Can I use the ISO to do an upgrade to 1903? I do not want to do a reinstall.

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BrianB wrote:

Can I use the ISO to do an upgrade to 1903? I do not want to do a reinstall

Yes, you can.

I think that Microsoft’s AI has mistakenly found your hardware/software compatible and pushed 1903. There probably is a ‘stop block’ hardware device in your PC.

Any way, what’s the rush to upgrade to 1903, when in 3 months you’ll get 1903sp1 with 30 months support ?

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Thanks Alex. I downloaded the ISO. I restored my image backup,  ran SFC /Scannow and DISM and both complete with no errors. I turned off Bitdefender and exited every app running. I  then started Setup from the ISO. And at 79% it gets stuck and did not move all night. So I officially give up getting it installed and will wait as you suggest.

The strange thing is in May I accidentally checked for update and it pushed 1903 which I installed fine. It was early and so I reverted to my image backup. Strange that installed then and fails now.

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Home User. Tried updating to 1903. Downloads fine but gets stuck at 60%. Have tried these 4 steps at wintips–

Method 1. Force Windows to Download again the Windows 10 Update v1903.
Method 2. Manually Upgrade Windows 10 to version 1903.
Method 3. FIX Windows corruption errors with DISM & SFC tools.
Method 4. Install Windows 10 v1903 Update with an IN-Place Upgrade.
General troubleshooting guide for Windows 10 updates.
get this message-windows could not configure one or more system components to install windows restart and then restart installation or this-

error 0xc1900101- ox30018 failed first boot phase with an error during SYSPREP_SPECIALIZE.

Windows Home 2018

AMD FX ™- 6300 Six-Core Processor 3.5 GHz

8 gigs ram

64 bit os

no touch or pen available

pretty sure it’s something with my old computer but have not been able to figure it out. I am not a pro by a long shot. Been following this site since the old Langa list and windows secrets days. you all have gotten me out of many problems in the past. appreciate any help. i do not work inside and may be few hours before i can reply.

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