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I've been repeatedly trying to install this update, but each time I try to launch the update, it will suddenly stop at 96% and tell me there was something wrong with the install and my PC files would return to the previous "un-updated" state.
I've tried every method I could easily find online (Removing all non-essential hardware, did clean boot into Windows, et cetera.), but none of them fixed the isue and I'm suspecting it's a deeper, less common issue.
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This doesn't work. I get a syntax error with the following: Ren C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution.old
Ren C:\Windows\System32\catroot2 Catroot2.old
None of this works for me. I tried to troubleshoot, tried to download directly and none of that works.
Help!
You gotta do a clean install. Download the tool from Media Creation Tool and go from that.
The problem started when my laptop was repaired and window10 installed. Now I can't reinstall my window11.
Why won't my windows upgrade?
Thx,
Jim.
I did a "clean" install at least twice, and it didn't work.
Fingers crossed that Microsoft will either come up with a new update that bypasses Win 11 Update 23H2, or sell me Win 12.
Have had this issue for months, and nothing I've tried has worked...including everything I've read in this thread.
