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I have a dual boot laptop with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 - with the following partitions : 

Disk 1 - 128GB SSD : 
        160Mb EFI System boot partition
        128Mb - msftres (no idea)
        60GB - Windows 10 (C:\ - 23GB free)
        1 MB - unused
        1.5GB - ext3 - /boot
        20GB - ext3 - /
        20GB - linux-swap
        18GB - ntfs - shared game assets
        500Mb - ntfs - windows recovery - 200Mb free

Disk 2 - 2 TB
     128Mb - msftres
     1TB - ntfs - (D:\)
     900Mb - ext3 - (/home)

I have grub installed which allows me to boot whichever I wish.

From the Middle of March I have been prompted on windows to install a new version (Windows 10 is version 1607 currently).

Update attempt 1 to n: Using Windows Update Assistance

I tried downloading as prompted, which downloaded ok, the machine restarted - I chose Windows from the grub menu; it started installing - reached 25% and restarted again. Chose windows again from grub menu - windows restored previous version - no update.

I tried the Windows update troubleshooter - it found and 'fixed issues'; tried the update assistance again - same result. Ran the trouble shoot again, same issues found and fixed; tried again as above - same result - rinse and repeat every few days.

Update attempt 2: Using Windows Media Creation Tool

Using the tool, I burnt and verified a DVD - and booted my machine from that DVD; the DVD software could not even detect Windows on my machine despite it being fully authorized and licensed.

After this failed attempt - booting into windows gives this error :

Windows Error - post DVD update attempt

Needless to say this error code don't seem to exist on Microsoft's web sites. - it is odd that this error is generated when the DVD claimed it couldn't even find a Windows version - but clearly it found something in order to trigger this error.

Running the Update Trouble shooter - again it claims to finds the same set of errors as it did previously - suggesting that the Trouble shooter is mostly pointless.

Where Next ?

So the big Question - How on Earth do i get windows to install this windows update ? [previously windows updates have always worked (even when they required a reboot), but this one just fails].

Additional Info

  • looking at the Windows Event Log - there is no log message of any of the attempted upgrades, or any error message from any of the failures and windows re-versions.
  • The machine uses UEFI - if that matters
  • Laptop has 32GB RAM
Tony Suffolk 66
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Microsoft never tests Windows Upgrade (the Feature Updates of Windows 10 are new Windows version, so the update is doing an upgrade like Vista to 7 or 7 to 8) when a different boot loader is used.

When I did the upgrade from 1607 to 1709 on my 8" Toshiba Encore Tablet, I also needed to disable the Android x86 boot entry otherwise the setup also failed. I submitted it to Microsoft so try the 1803 ISO/Installer if they improved it now.

If this also fails and running SetupDiag to analyze the log files uninstall GRUB, update to 1803 and reinstall GRUB boot loader.

magicandre1981
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