Windows 8 updating

[Echovirus]

My friend has a frustrating HP laptop that I'm trying to help him upgrade to Windows 10. It has Windows 8 and followed the HP instructions to the letter for using their built-in factory reset since he wanted to be rid of all his old schoolwork. So far, so good there.

I've gotten it to run a handful of updates, but if I try to accept all of the 147 important updates at once, the system just gets stuck in a loop of the installation breaking and attempting to rollback during the reboot. I've ended up factory resetting a couple of times now after failed attempts. Are all of these updates required to get 8.1 or are there particular KBs that would be what I would need to target?


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[RandBlade]

My guess would be the Updates (near the bottom) rather than the Security Updates would be critical steps, on the other hand a lot of the security updates are absolutely tiny.

Maybe try doing in batches of eg 10 at a time and then if one doesn't work it'll be easier to figure out which is causing the problem and skip it until the others are done?

[Echovirus]

Thanks for the suggestion, RB. I started just doing them one at a time, after KB2871389, I was able to begin the 8.1 download.

[RandBlade]

Yay glad that worked

Now I guess you need to repeat that process to get from 8.1 to 10?

The deadline for a free upgrade to 10 must be expiring soon, or have MS extended that yet?

[Echovirus]

Well, it worked as far as downloading 8.1. The classic issue of failing to boot back up, getting the 0xC1900101-0x20017 code, and it rolling back to 8 has put me back into the fun habit of clearing out stuff with disk cleanup and wiping the store cache.

In a couple of hours, I'll know if this next attempt will work as well. If not, I'll be searching around seeing if there's anything out there about a possible driver in this thing that's gone wrong.

As far as I know, the deadline is still the 29th with the release of the anniversary update coming on the 2nd.

[Wraith]

If you're still having trouble, I'd suggest loading the win10 installer onto a USB or burned DVD and installing from that. If it gives you a choice, a fresh install is also better than an upgrade.

[Echovirus]

Wraithy. I've got that USB waiting next to it.