[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
    2019-11-17T16:55:37+00:00

    OK that was a good find.  Memory may need to be installed in a certain configuration, are you aware if you can run only 3 modules or maybe just two..

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-11-17T18:05:08+00:00

    Just reinstalled Win10 with 3 modules on it. No issues so far. OS sees all 12GB of memory.

    I'll start installing programs to see where it hurts and complain. (e.g. Steam, Firefox...)

    I just run Windows Update and all this is coming...

    Hopefully all this wouldn't hurt...

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-11-17T18:29:46+00:00

    Looks like you are going to be busy.  Every now and then you might run the SFC again to see if it starts picking up errors.

    When you are satisfied the situation is resolved, are you going to reinstall the old drive and try upgrading it?  There may be some cleaning up on it you would need to do.  If you are happy with the new install, maybe best to stay there.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-11-17T18:43:02+00:00

    Trying to restart to install updates, clicking the Start button didn't show the menu and the search box disappeared, but reappears when  clicking other systray icon. So I had to right-click Start button to select an "update and restart".

    After rebooting run SFC. At least looks clean for now.

    ... On the look out...

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-11-22T13:31:50+00:00

    How is it going?

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