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Windows 10 1803 update gives this message 0xc1900101. Then windows update starts the download again.
Then it's message 0x80070005.
How to escape from this.Win10 pro, 1709
*Modified title for accuracy*
*Original title: Windows 10 1803 update fails with message 0xc1900101.*
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Hello,
0xC1900101 is generic error code and points to driver incompatibility while you opt to upgrade. You need to read the dialog, which likely came before this error message. There should be additional information with the detail. The dialog will tell you what devices are having a problem. That is the one you need to get a new driver for.
Once you fixed the driver(s) mentioned with detail, the error will no longer persist.
Hope this helps!
I have tried just about everything and it just refuses. My next attempt will be a clean install on a different hard drive. Windiws 10 is proving to be worse than Vista. If this doesn't work it will be Linux from now on.
Oh no no please please don’t switch to Linux please no
Just do it. Switch to linux. I hear it’s a fantastic desktop OS and isn’t totally useless.
I would want to resist paying out dollars as well. And that is a valid complaint, no one should have to suffer 3 hours worth of an install process before getting an error message that might have come earlier. There should be a better check up front for issues that might arise.
If you must go to Unix - good luck. Maybe someday pop back in & tell us how it went.
Oh no no please please don’t switch to Linux please no
Just do it. Switch to linux. I hear it’s a fantastic desktop OS and isn’t totally useless.
Go find some other site to troll as your posts are nothing but self-gratification.
Others here are at least relaying their frustrations / experiences they are having w/Windows 10, that may or may not help. Definitely helps me in that, it has proven there is no "one size fits all" when it comes to these errors. Another persons solution /resolve isn't necessarily going to work others, essentially it's become a crap shoot.
The diagnostics end of Windows 10 hasn't gotten any better than the BSOD days and if anything, think it is worse. MS just put another "face" on everything making us users think it is for the better but it is definitely not, if it were then we'd have a clear direction in which to go. Can only be thankful MS never entered the automotive industry because it'd be insane. Can you imagine pulling an OBD code that gave no sense of direction as where to start? Nauseates me to think about that.
And if you think I have no right to be here then think again - ask me tomorrow how my work computer made out on it's umpteenth try at installing April's Update. Besides wasting my time applying resolutions that fail to resolve it will have forced itself to install the update, again, more wasted time. So until we perform a complete refresh (that may or may not work) we are going to be hounded to keep attempting to install 1803. The OS is becoming dumber by the minute making a not so "SMART" PC, becoming an absolute joke.
Update (Aug 7, 2018... Just as I predicted, Windows Update tried once again to install 1803 (against my will) and finally the inevitable happened - so much for "active hours" helping out in this matter!!! Needed another paperweight like we needed another hole in the head and that's exactly what I ended up with. Tried to troubleshoot with Startup Repair, System Restore, Go Back To Previous Build, etc, all failing miserably time and time again. This is nothing new to me though (why we were spot on with our prediction) as been there done that far too many times to count with Windows 10 and its "mandatory updates", such a joke. Not happy nor am I going to pretend to be.
Every month or so my laptop tries to do this update and always fails, no matter how many hours I let it be. I have to always let it restore to the previous version. My laptop is an aspire s7 from December 2013. Yes, it's old(er), but it works fine. How do I get this update to either work for me, or stop the automatic updates?
