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RonLyster
Sep 26, 2021Brass Contributor
Windows 11 Update Failed, then Windows Update failed
I was just offered the opportunity to upgrade to Windows 11 in the Release Preview Channel. I gladly accepted the offer. The upgrade downloaded, then installed (seemingly 100%), and then rebooted. Wi...
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It seems that on many computers there is this problem!
Cannot install Windows 11 - Error 0xc1900101 - Microsoft Community
_RBL_
Sep 26, 2021Brass Contributor
Hey I dunno if youve fixed this or not however you need to run the check for updates after the reboot and win 11 should download. This is done after your enrollment and reboot
RonLyster
Sep 27, 2021Brass Contributor
Enrolled months ago. Win 11 downloads (at least it says it has) and installs (again, it says it has) and then asks to reboot, which I do, and when it comes back up nothing was done - and there's no error message. Running update now simply shows the update error I have mentioned here.
- _RBL_Sep 27, 2021Brass ContributorI feel as You might want to decrypt the entire drive and make sure you don't have a locked drive partition.
Elevated PowerShell: Manage-bde --status- RonLysterSep 27, 2021Brass ContributorThought that might do it. After decrypting, the machine updated without a hitch and again offered me a chance to upgrade to Windows 11. Again I accepted. It showed installation 100%, then scheduled my restart (I restated it immediately), and when it came back up it said it was getting Windows ready. Hmm, could that mean it was getting Windows 11 ready for me? Unfortunately, NO. Same OS is installed (Windows 10 Pro). No error codes - it's as if nothing happened at all. Now all my Windows 10 updates are installed (at least that problem is resolved), and I have the original "Upgrade to Windows 11 is ready - and it's free" offer in Windows Update. Should I try it again for the 6th time? I guess I will, but I don't have much hope that it will install.
- _RBL_Sep 27, 2021Brass Contributorafter you install it and it downloads and reboots, it comes up as windows 10, then you should go to settings and update and select check for update, then a windows 11 build will download from the updates and install as normal. Also check to make sure that your dev tools are turned on. To do this go to settings and then find the allow remote connection from computers on my network and the allow usb connections option. Toggle those on and you should get a message stating windows is downloading additional tools.
If you have a windows insider account you can go to the insider ISO download page and do it that way
- RonLysterSep 27, 2021Brass ContributorIt says it is "decrypting" now.