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- 11:17 AM
- Posts
- 86
- Location
- Mérida, México
- OS
- Windows 11 version 24H2 (OS Build 26100.2605)
I was prompted by an icon in the System Tray to update my system. I went to Windows Update and there it was: the 22H2 update. It successfully downloaded with no problem. However:
First attempt to install failed somewhere after 60% (I wasn't really monitoring the progress closely) with a BSOD.
Second attempt to install failed at 94% with a KERNEL_MODE_HEAP_CORRUPTION BSOD
Third attempt to install made it through to 100%, but after rebooting got the KERNEL_MODE_HEAP_CORRUPTION BSOD
After that it was only an endless cycle of boot, reboot, reboot, reboot, never getting farther that seeing the spinning dots for a few seconds.
I downloaded the .ISO for 21H2 (which I had been using until today) and made a boot USB using Rufus. Can't do an in-place "upgrade," as I kind of expected, but what I didn't expect: "We couldn't find any drives." the "Where do you want to install Windows" box is blank. What the heck???
If I remove the USB and boot off the hard disk and hard power off enough times to get into the troubleshooting screens and go to Command Prompt, using DISKPART, the internal SSD hard drive is there with all its previous partitions.
Why can't Windows Install find the disk so I can reinstall Win11 and get on with life again?
(Does it have something to do with turning off Safe Boot in order to boot from the USB drive?)
First attempt to install failed somewhere after 60% (I wasn't really monitoring the progress closely) with a BSOD.
Second attempt to install failed at 94% with a KERNEL_MODE_HEAP_CORRUPTION BSOD
Third attempt to install made it through to 100%, but after rebooting got the KERNEL_MODE_HEAP_CORRUPTION BSOD
After that it was only an endless cycle of boot, reboot, reboot, reboot, never getting farther that seeing the spinning dots for a few seconds.
I downloaded the .ISO for 21H2 (which I had been using until today) and made a boot USB using Rufus. Can't do an in-place "upgrade," as I kind of expected, but what I didn't expect: "We couldn't find any drives." the "Where do you want to install Windows" box is blank. What the heck???
If I remove the USB and boot off the hard disk and hard power off enough times to get into the troubleshooting screens and go to Command Prompt, using DISKPART, the internal SSD hard drive is there with all its previous partitions.
Why can't Windows Install find the disk so I can reinstall Win11 and get on with life again?
(Does it have something to do with turning off Safe Boot in order to boot from the USB drive?)
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My Computers
System One System Two
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- OS
- Windows 11 version 24H2 (OS Build 26100.2605)
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Manufacturer/Model
- HP Spectre X360 14
- CPU
- i7-1195G7
- Memory
- 16GB
- Monitor(s) Displays
- external 24" Dell P2415Q
- Screen Resolution
- 3840 x 2160 on external Dell, 3000 x 2000 on laptop screen
- Hard Drives
- 1TB SSD with 32GB Optane cache
- Browser
- Vivaldi, Comodo Dragon, Edge
- Antivirus
- Avast (free version)
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- Operating System
- Windows 11 Pro, 21H2 (Build 22000.376)
- Computer type
- Tablet
- Manufacturer/Model
- Surface Pro 6
- CPU
- i7-8650U
- Memory
- 16 GB
- Graphics card(s)
- iGPU (Intel® UHD Graphics 620)
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dell P2415Q
- Screen Resolution
- 3840 x 2160 on external Dell, 2736 x 1824 on SP6 screen
- Hard Drives
- 512GB PCIe Gen 3 x2 SSD
- Browser
- Vivaldi, Comodo Dragon, Edge
- Antivirus
- Avast (free edition)
