How did I not find this board years ago!

Scanman1 · Jan 1, 2024

I have been on several power user boards (MDL/W11F) and with only reading a few threads, there is a much less condescending and helpful feel to this board.

I'm not one to post and ask an already asked question and will search and find the answer 95% of the time if it's out there.

I finally broke my W11 to the point that an in-place upgrade will get 90% done and then back out. I reserve 15% of the drive for restore points and do them often. I also have Backup & Restore (Windows 7) make a full system drive image and back up the user data folders once a week. I just stumbled on this board after going 2 pages deep in a Google search with Window error codes as the search term.

I had the backup take place last night and overwrote the image with one that has the issues and have done system restore 3x as far back as I can and I did not realise I have had this windows update problem going on for a while now. I'll have to read much more here before I ask for help and do it the proper way if I can't figure it out on my own.

It's really nice to see Windows employees volunteering to look at advanced DISM/Update problems on a case by case basis.

Corday · Jan 1, 2024

xrobwx71 · Jan 1, 2024

Welcome to Sysnative.

Scanman1 said:
I have had this windows update problem going on for a while now

You'll need to follow the instructions here: Windows Update Forum Posting Instructions

Corrine · Jan 1, 2024

Welcome to Sysnative, @Scanman1!

Scanman1 said:
It's really nice to see Windows employees volunteering to look at advanced DISM/Update problems on a case by case basis.

Just so that it is clear, the people helping here at Sysnative are all volunteers, and are not Microsoft/Windowe employees.

Scanman1 · Jan 2, 2024

Corrine said:
Welcome to Sysnative, @Scanman1!

Just so that it is clear, the people helping here at Sysnative are all volunteers, and are not Microsoft/Windowe employees.

That's what is so amazing...
The fact that you have 1st hand subject experts that are willing to use insider knowledge to assist outside of work hours.
I have not seen this level of knowledge/help from official MS sources or quite frankly from any paid service/software offering.

I'm not ready to drop my crazy long logs here quite yet as I have a real mess with 10 SATA hard drives with some set as MBR boot (old-multiboot) and some as GPT/UEFI boot and I select boot in bios for some test configurations. If I ever need to do a boot repair, I have to pull the sata cables to the unaffected drives except for the windows backup (W7 style) and the drive with OS issue or boot diagnostics recovery will do more damage than good to my "setup". I also have many legitimate tools that are seen as false positive Hackware by Windows Defender. It REALLY don't like Nirsoft recovery tools, or my legitimate unsigned drivers I need for my Free To Air dongle driver, or my custom crafted monitor (HDMI/TV) driver to create the needed custom EDID to get Windows to output Dolby Atmos and DTS:X to my Denon receiver and not just the non-surround ones my Sony HDMI TV announces it supports thats plugged into the Dennon. I also have disabled wifi/bluetooth/and intel gbit adapters and use the realtek 2.5gbit adapter so my network is also quite messy.

I also am running Build 10.0.25997.1010, so volunteers will not likely have a VM ready to spin up with my OS version. It's setup with local accounts and I used Offline Insider Enroll script v2.6.4 to enable the Windows Insider Program on my daily driver OS/Partition in question.

plodr · Jan 2, 2024

jcgriff2 · Feb 20, 2024

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