PNP DRIVER WATCHDOG

Same problem here. Update stuck at 42% and then this DRIVER PNP WATCHDOG screen.

Already tried:

• Open "task Manager" & go to startup tab and disable everything
• Open msconfig and go to services tab; click "Hide all Microsoft services" then check everything else and disable everything
• Open Device Manager, go to "Display Adapter", right-click entry (videocard) and uninstall device, and also all Realtek sound devices

Yes, I have this C:\Windows\Panther\NewOs\Rollbackfolder with the setupmem.dmp file in it

What do I do?

Fixed!

I would not have found it without this help from auggy:

The setupmem.dmp references the volsnap.sys (Volume Shadow Copy driver) but not a third party driver :

BugCheck 1D5, {6900630070, ffff9f06c6092ab0, ffffd209730df040, 2bf32}

Implicit thread is now ffffd209`730df040

Probably caused by : volsnap.sys ( volsnap!VspSynchronousIo+14b )

I found lots of "generic shadow volume" entries in Drivers, including some hidden non-active ones

vssadmin List Shadows revealed a shadow on my D drive that was last modified in 2015

vssadmin Delete Shadows would not delete it - saying it had to be deleted by the application which created it.

I used vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage to delete it by setting the size to 320MB, then back to UNBOUND.

All my generic shadow volumes disappeared from drivers. The update worked fine.

Incidentally I had previously run both "Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth" and "SFC ScanNow" with no effect.

So again, thanks to auggy, I now have a fixed machine.

The setupmem.dmp references the volsnap.sys (Volume Shadow Copy driver) but not a third party driver :

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C:$WINDOWS.~BT\Sources\Panther

C:$WINDOWS.~BT\Sources\Rollback

If those folders exist can you zip them up and provide via OneDrive.

I tried the update again with the suggestions from Kethtc. I had originally tried uninstalling Acronis backup (which makes use of Volume Shadow Copy) and had disconnected all external drives as suggested by martya2. All seem sensible things to try.

I still had the failure, but immediately after it had restored 1709 I looked for the two folders of interest. I copied them locally. After that I reinstalled the AV (ESET Endpoint Security) which required a restart. The restart removed the Rollback folder and a lot of the content of the Panther folder.

I have another (much older) machine running much the same software and that upgraded OK (but very slowly) in the presence of an attached USB drive, Acronis and ESET.

I would share the folders with you, but OneDrive is playing up. I can't create shares either through the web interface or the local folder on either machine. The web interface says something about being unable to contact the server - please try later! I wondered whether it did not like the presence of executable code in the zip file, so I removed all the .dll files that were in it - but that does not fix it. 

So auggy, thanks for your efforts. When I've found a way to share the files with you, I'll do so!

OneDrive has come back to life for me so here are the folders: Removed