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Cannot upgrade a W10 box to W11 with Samsung SSD 980 and SQL Server 2016 installed. UPDATE.
- Hello Joerg!
This is Angelina. Thank you so much for reaching out regarding this matter. I will try to reach out and see if I can get some help getting this issue resolved.
One thing I would like to suggest is attempting to install Windows 11 via a USB bootable media using the Windows 11 Media Creation Tool. (https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11)
This may allow you to install Windows 11, but I am not entirely sure as I have not encountered this problem before.
Hi,
meanwhile, I became a little impatient. MS Insiders are busy with layouts of explorer-Gui and alike. I could not alert anybody to fix this bug in W11 upgrade software.
So I decided to spent some money for a new NVME SSD, this time I took the 2 TB Fury. Then I cloned the system volume to the new SSD, removed all Samsung SSDs containing data and disabled the SQL Server service. The try to upgrade ran to completion.
The new Start-menu is a complete disaster for me. But after checking the parameters of the NVME driver and enabling SQL Server again, everything is OK for me. The SQL Server IO-performance seems to be even a little better than with W10.
Note: Only changing the system volume's SSD to the Kingston SSD, did not the trick. I had to remove all Samsung SSD 980 PRO. Older Samsung SSDs were ignored.
Angelina, if you would label this reply a a valid answer this might help other people with SQL Server installed on there W10 boxes.
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Best regards