Solved Windows 11 64-bit doesn't find upgrades beyond 22000.2538

fortree · Friday at 6:06 AM

GotNoRice said:
Each Feature Update gets two years of mainstream support before it hits EoL (End of Life). You get continued support by installing a newer Feature Update. You can think of a Feature Update as being like the modern version of a Service Pack. The OS overall is still supported, but at a certain point, if you want new updates, you have to install the newest Feature Update / Service Pack.

Usually new Feature Updates would be offered via Windows Update. Under some circumstances, like if you used a bypass method to install Windows 11, then it won't offer you a new Feature Update via Windows Update. You should still be able to do an in-place upgrade though. Whatever caused the upgrade from the ISO to fail is a separate issue.

Try other ISOs for 23H2 and 22H2. You could also potentially try upgrading directly to the latest 24H2 Release Preview build. If all of that fails, there are actually newer 21H2 builds out there, the most current being 22000.3019 from June 11th, still updated since Enterprise and other versions get an extra year of support compared to mainstream (22000.2538 was the last mainstream release build IIRC). That would be better than nothing, or could maybe be used as a stepping-stone to a newer version.

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Finally got to update from 21H2 to 22H2 by mounting 22621.1.220506-1250.NI_RELEASE_CLIENTMULTI_X64FRE_EN-US.ISO and installed at first try. Now I'm on 22H2 Build 22621.382. After a few NET 3.5 and other minor updates, now Windows Update is offering me to upgrade to:
2024-05 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5037853) is available.

The doubt I have is if the install happened because of just upgrading from 21H2 to 22H2, or because I removed beforehand StartAllBack, removed a few drivers like RTL8192su.sys and ran the DISM.

So what I'm going to do, is to restore an old backup before doing any of that, and check again if allows me to upgrade again. I just want to know if the update using the ISO is blocked by some software, driver or configuration in my system.

It's pretty wicked that Windows Update didn't find and install the upgrades, since I've checked for them periodically and had already set "AllowUpgradesWithUnsupportedTPMOrCPU" to "1". I already had the feeling that my Windows wasn't getting big updates lately, and since everything worked perfect didn't care to investigate.

The PC is pretty snappy even being 6700HQ so now I can extend its life a few more years. At least for 10 more years it should be ok.

fortree · Friday at 7:26 PM

Finally fixed.

Restored the backup with StartAllBack and all driver and stuff. Then tried to upgrade again using the 22H2 ISO, got the message "We Can't Tell If Your PC Has Enough Space to Continue Installing Windows 11", which was just fixed rebooting.

Then tried again the ISO and installed by rebooting 3 times.

After reboot got a notification that "Intel Usbmon" or something like that was uninstalled. No idea what it is. Then 4 updates:

2024-05 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8.1 for Windows 11, version 22H2 for x64 (KB5037591)
Update for Windows Security platform antimalware platform - KB5007651 (Version 1.0.2402.27001)
2023-10 Update for Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB4023057)
2022-08 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5016632)

After reboot now I can install from Windows Update:
2024-05 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5037853) is available.
2024-06 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5039212)
Update for Windows Security platform antimalware platform - KB5007651 (Version 1.0.2402.27001)
2022-08 Security Update for Windows 11 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5012170)

But installed also (not requested). Uninstalled it before reboot to avoid bootloop issues as reported by people:
2024-06 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5039302)

It's not offering me 23H2 either. Should try downloading the ISO from uupdump?

Scott · Friday at 11:46 PM

fortree said:
It's not offering me 23H2 either. Should try downloading the ISO from uupdump?

What build are you on? Click the start menu and type Winver

Looks like you're on 22621.3737

if so, here's a link to the 23H2 enablement package provide by the awesome Shawn Brink.

https://catalog.sf.dl.delivery.mp.m..._3a9c368e239bb928c32a790cf1663338d2cad472.msu

Download that, run it and you'll be on 23H2. Takes like 3 seconds, if that.

fortree · Saturday at 5:54 AM

Yes, I'm on 22621.3737. I've installed the enabler "windows11.0-kb5027397-x64_3a9c368e239bb928c32a790cf1663338d2cad472.msu" and the same update shows up:
2024-06 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 11 Version 23H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5039302)

But I want the 23H2 without KB5039302 which is known to cause bootloop issues.

I've tried to download from UUPD both 23H2 (22631.3807) and 23H2 (22631.3810) but both isos contain the undesired patch:

Batch:

=== Creating Cumulative Update MSU . . .

Extracting required files...

Creating: DesktopDeployment_x86.cab

Creating: onepackage.AggregatedMetadata.cab

Creating: Windows11.0-KB5039302-x64.msu

=== Updating install.wim / 2 image{s} . . .

fortree · Saturday at 2:32 PM

Now on 22621.3737 my computer is up to date and can flag this thread al solved. The 2 immediate updates 22631.3807 22631.3810 I'm not going to install them because of KB5039302.