[Case Closed; No Solution] Windows 10 keeps failing update to 1903

Anonymous
2019-09-20T12:49:46+00:00

Hello,

I'm currently running 1803 and every single time I am trying to upgrade to 1903 I got a BSOD with a PFN List Corrupt.

  1. I have tried several method: let Windows Update download and install; Creating a Win10 installation Media in USB
  2. I have more than 43GB of free space.
  3. I've run File System checker, CheckDisk, and any other tool / utility

The other day I change MSConfig and select selective startup to disable other services/programs to load and after rebooting my PC couldn't even find Windows booting to a Boot Manager where only Windows 7 was an option (??????) (My original OS was Win7 but I upgrade to Win10 through Microsoft Upgrade Program) but no trail of Win7 neither. I used a third-party boot utility that fix the boot and I'm again in Win10 that keeps reminding me that I have an old version, that I would not get more updates and I have to upgrade... but the damn update keeps failing after download, reboot, install and after the 2 or 3 reboot in the installation process I got the ERROR.

I need like 2 restarts to see see the message saying is putting all back to previous state and then boot again and still ion ver 1803.

Please advice. I have tried all those canned solutions people post on forums with no difference.

Thanks.

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-11-03T12:07:21+00:00

    A couple of questions..

    Was the second Recovery Partition on your drive before you started the upgrade..  Just wondering if we need to change the Recovery Tools back to the original.  The error messages about the Winre problem did go away but since the Winre.wim has drivers included, it may make a difference.

    Do you have a USB Install Media drive?

    The new log does appear to break down at the same place as the old one.  I am going it to see if I can find anything.

    The ASUS utilities I am referring to, in case you don't understand are the ones that come on the DVD for a motherboard and do things like set fan speeds, cpuz and other such utilities.

    I have reported the additional posts in the thread, I have seen the same type of thing in other threads.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-11-03T14:12:25+00:00

    Salt grass,

    Please instructions on where are the dump logs.

    Thanks.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-11-03T14:24:16+00:00

    During these updates, it should have shown a path to those but I assume those are in the $Windows.~BT folder somewhere.  You may have a memory.dmp in the Windows folder or a minidump file in the Windows\Minidump folder.

    What is your current status, are you back on the prior build after a rollback?

    I am going through every line looking for something.  I see where is says it is rolling back but have found no indication as to why.

    If you want to try changing the reagentc settings, it isn't hard, I just would not want to do that if that recovery partition was not the original one.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-11-03T15:53:23+00:00

    Interesting. WINDOWS\Minidump is empty.

    Yes still in the previous build 1803

    rechecked reagentc and it shows still enabled (in case for some reason it reverted itself)

    As long as I remember that partition was created when I upgrade from Win7 to Win10 through desktop upgrade assistance. Its been long time ago.

    I don't see, find any program utility installed that can change fans except Corsair LINK app for the water cooling fan, but it is not even loaded or running or the AMD one for the graphic card.

    Any additional info that you need?

    Thank you.

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