Windows 11, version 24H2 won't install

The same. Windows is a cancer to IT world. Microsoft just can't create usable and stable product.

I'm switching to Mac.

Globally, there are 1.5 billion Windows 10 or Windows 11 computers active every month. That is an incomprehensible number.

I see there are millions using some kind of linux system in luxury designer shells with a fruit stamped on, and we live a strange age where what we buy an indecent price isn't even ours while free stuff can be.

...But it's no excuse.

Trumpian methods ;).

I was not amused by the 9 week period I spent on it. But it is a ticking clock since security updates will stop on 23h2 so you do need to sort out a way forward. A clean install is one but then you have to copy everything back on and install the programs like a new machine.

Only by Googling bits of the error report did I come on the tool. Microsoft tightened up backend security in 24h2 so if the driver doesn't pass the test the system rolls back.

You can do this test outside the update, Google

Microsoft readiness integrity scan tool

Download the hvsci exe of choice. How to use it is online you pipe the output to a results file > old DOS command. It will tell you what has failed. You identify the driver or drivers and delete them. Reboot and try the update again. How to delete them is online. I have published it a few times on the net so you might stumble on my posts. Do save your drivers before deleting them in case you need to go back.

Same problem with a laptop dedicated to browse and view Netflix/Prime/... on a HomeCinema.
The system only has Windows11 and a browser, absolutely nothing else installed and yet, this funking update fails at 18% for a year now.

It's not up to you users, me or anyone here to do the work.
It's up to M$ to clean its mess on our machines and do what it was payed for.
Not doing it is a severance of contract by M$. Full disrespect of the customer. Simple fact.

At least, the update app must revert the update of 24H2 on all machines and wait for a working update to be released to restart the process.

Meanwhile, I'll switch to another OS.
Funk you very much, M$ !!!

This is completely inexcusable by Microsoft!

The big problem is that it has absolute DOMINANCE in operating systems - there is no REASONABLE competitor to Windows.

Globally, there are 1.5 billion Windows 10 or Windows 11 computers active every month. That is an incomprehensible number.

The entire world's information system is built on Windows and now that Windows is no longer reliable --> DISASTER.

And then... TESTING has failed miserably.

Funny enough when migration to 24h2 was completed it updated the driver to the one that was not compatible with the 23h2 to 24h2. The question then is what happens when 25h2 comes out. Cross that bridge.

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The root cause of all these difficulties is suppose to be Microsoft cutting back on development staff and leaving it to the Insider program to do QA.

Whatever...

The most cost effective will be a full replacement with some open source OS indeed, for it seems that the more we pay, the less we are considered.