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Matt Halliday
Jan 08, 2022Tin Contributor
W10 H21 upgrade from W7 - Can't get past Location setting screen
Hi - Really hoping someone here can help. I've just upgraded my old but high-spec Lenovo W540 that hasn't been working (long story) from W7 Pro to W10 Using the media creation tool. It's gone strai...
Matt Halliday
Jan 08, 2022Tin Contributor
Just the MS Media Creation tool - nothing else. Ran the Upgrade Now option. No errors reported, it all ran smoothly until I logged in for the first time. I also thought - judging from the text format - that there were some components missing. Until I get past this I can't really do much. Safe mode is hobbled so can't do much from there. I get this evert time I log in on every account. Just not safe mode.
Edit: Going to re-run the media Creation tool and build an ISO - maybe do a repair and see if that finds anything. I'm an infrastructure guy so don't normally touch desktop OS's, been ages since I did a W10 install. VMware, W2016 and 2019 vms all the time.
Reza_Ameri
Jan 09, 2022Silver Contributor
You are right there is something wrong with the Windows.
Do you have access to the command prompt?
Do you have access to the command prompt?