Win 10 1903 May 29, 2019—KB4497935 (OS Build 18362.145) still fails the update from a USB stick.

Anonymous
2019-06-01T01:04:11+00:00

According to the description of the fixes in KB4497935 the bug with the USB devices should have been fixed, but it still does not allow updates with installation media on a USB stick.

Fix description:

"Addresses an issue that may cause an external USB device or SD memory card to be reassigned to an incorrect drive during installation. For more information, see "This PC can't be upgraded to Windows 10" error on a computer that has a USB device or SD card attached"

I tried to do an update with installation media build 18362.145 on a system already at 18362.145 and still gets the error message below:

 

Is there a fix yet for this bug in the v 1903 release ? Which build do I need to get this bug fixed ?

I know that I can work around the issue installing from a local drive.

Also if I try upgrading from1903 to a preview 20H1 build 18908.1000 using a USB stick the update completes without this message.

I hope we don't need to wait for 20H1 to get this bug resolved.

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-06-01T03:11:15+00:00

    How do you know your 1903 Installation USB is OS Build 18362.145? I just downloaded the MediaCreationTool1903.exe from...

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

    Download Windows 10 -  Currently, this is 1903

    …& here are its Properties...

    I'm running it now, but I expect the Properties of Setup.exe on the Installation USB it creates to be the same as above: 10.0.18362.1. If I am wrong & it turns out to be as you said, then I will feel more confident to apply it to my 1809. I am more & more impatient for it to arrive through Windows Update.

    But I don't know what has to be fixed to make the USB problem go away.

    (a) Is it indeed 1903's Setup.exe?

         Then when/how will they tell us they made one that works? Will its Properties show it?

    (b) Or is it the installation to which 1903 is being applied?

         You are applying it (doing an over-install) to 1903 that has the fix (KB4497935). So it should have worked.

    Oops. Here's what I got...

    I'm going to reboot & try again. After that, I'll look up the error code. And I'm only trying to create an Installation USB at this point!

    Edit: It took 3 tries to create that thing. Here is its Setup.exe...

    So - if it takes a change to Setup.exe to fix the USB problem - I don't see that it's been done yet. Is there another way to know whether they've made a change to it? Is the one you are using the same size of 72.1 KB?

    But I haven't tried the upgrade yet & don't know whether this computer will have that problem in the first place.

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