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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.
in the answer you have already tagged, ask the moderator to change the tag.
Best regards