Cant update to Win 11

[ondma]

Please also run winver and check your version of Win10. It should be 22H2.

No, unfortunately, it is Version 21H1. My version is Windows Pro. Should that also be Version 22H2? Strange thing is it just installed a big update, but still is not the latest version. Like I said, (see post 21) when I click on the "check for updates" button, all that shows up are those optional updates (post 22), but nothing to update Windows.

 

[tcsenter]

Just do clean install bro. Backup yo stuff, start anew. To use the words of the great philosopher and sometimes actor appearing in Alka-Seltzer adverts, Jack Aaron...."Try it, you'll like it!"

 

[ondma]

Just do clean install bro. Backup yo stuff, start anew. To use the words of the great philosopher and sometimes actor appearing in Alka-Seltzer adverts, Jack Aaron...."Try it, you'll like it!"

Yea, I am beginning to think that is the answer. Only thing is, if I have to start over from scratch, not sure if I shouldn't just get a new computer. They are pretty expensive right now, but they could get even worse with tariffs now being extended to computer chips.

 

[JackMDS]

Getting MBR to GPT while everything else stay the same take few minutes with this.

Free Download MiniTool Partition Wizard for Windows PC and Server

Free download the partition magic alternative - MiniTool Partition Wizard to move/resize/convert/copy/recover disk partitions in Windows PC and Windows Server.

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Then Download the 24H2 ISO from Microsoft.

Get a 16GB USB Flash Drive and using Rufus Install the Win 11 ISO to the Flash Drive.

Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

Rufus: Create bootable USB drives the easy way

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To perform an in-place upgrade, you'll need to use:

Rufus to create the bootable USB, then run the setup.exe from the USB drive within your existing Windows 10 installation

 

[tcsenter]

Yea, I am beginning to think that is the answer. Only thing is, if I have to start over from scratch, not sure if I shouldn't just get a new computer. They are pretty expensive right now, but they could get even worse with tariffs now being extended to computer chips.

C'mon a whole new PC? That almost as laborious having to uninstall all the OEM bundled bloat.

 

[mikeymikec]

No, unfortunately, it is Version 21H1. My version is Windows Pro. Should that also be Version 22H2? Strange thing is it just installed a big update, but still is not the latest version. Like I said, (see post 21) when I click on the "check for updates" button, all that shows up are those optional updates (post 22), but nothing to update Windows.

I personally haven't tried in-place upgrading from 21H1 to Win11, only 22H2 to Win11 (which I have done many times).

 

[ondma]

Well, here is the latest. They system totally crashed. I couldnt boot from C:, even into safe mode. I could not even boot from a clone of C I made a few months ago. System recovery or system restore also crashed. Repair disk also didnt work.
Finally, I was able to get the machine to boot from the original Win 10 DVD. Unfortunately that is a very old version of Windows. I cant even install my gpu drivers because it is so old. I am running update after update, hoping to finally get to 22H2. (I had to reformat C: to get Windows to reinstall from the DVD). So we will see. Still hoping to get Win 22H2 to install and decide what to do from there.

 

[mikeymikec]

download and run the Windows 10 Update Assistant from Microsoft to hop straight up to the latest version.

 

[ondma]

download and run the Windows 10 Update Assistant from Microsoft to hop straight up to the latest version.

I finally got to 22H2. Going to give up for the day, see what I can do tomorrow.