Windows 10 October 2020 Update is now available

Sumit 44,316 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2020-10-21T01:10:42+00:00

How to get the Windows 10 October 2020 update

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2020/10/20/how-to-get-the-windows-10-october-2020-update/

What is new in Windows 10 October 2020 update

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2020/10/20/whats-new-in-the-windows-10-october-2020-update/

Windows 10 20H2 Release information and known issues

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-information/status-windows-10-20h2

Current status as of October 20, 2020

Windows 10, version 20H2 is available for users with devices running Windows 10, versions 1903 and higher who manually seek to “Check for updates” via Windows Update. The recommended servicing status is Semi-Annual Channel.

Note We are slowly throttling up availability over the coming weeks to ensure a reliable download experience. As a result, the update may not be offered to you right away.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-12-12T20:52:36+00:00

    Thank you.... I'll try some of the posted solutions..  I have plenty of space, almost 1TB, but I also have 4 small partitions... which I really don't need..   Thanks again!

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    Hi Sidney, 

    Your partitions look correct for an EFI machine, you need those, one small partition is not showing with disk management (MSR partition), you would need to use diskpart command to display that too, but I assume it will be correct (Either 16MB or 128MB depending on who created it).

    UEFI/GPT-based hard drive partitions | Microsoft Docs

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    For Advanced Format 4K Native drives (4-KB-per-sector) drives, the minimum size is 260 MB, due to a limitation of the FAT32 file format. The minimum partition size of FAT32 drives is calculated as sector size (4KB) x 65527 = 256 MB.

    Advanced Format 512e drives are not affected by this limitation, because their emulated sector size is 512 bytes. 512 bytes x 65527 = 32 MB, which is less than the 100 MB minimum size for this partition.

    Here is a sample of a UEFI machine:

    DISKPART> select disk 0

    Disk 0 is now the selected disk.

    DISKPART> list partition

      Partition ###  Type                    Size     Offset

      -------------  ----------------     -------  -------

      Partition 1    System               260 MB  1024 KB

      Partition 2    Reserved              16 MB   261 MB

      Partition 3    Primary               475 GB   277 MB

      Partition 4    Recovery          1000 MB   475 GB

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-12-12T19:59:03+00:00

    Thank you.... I'll try some of the posted solutions..  I have plenty of space, almost 1TB, but I also have 4 small partitions... which I really don't need..   Thanks again!

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-12-12T19:32:57+00:00

    Hi....

    Thank you for your quick response... I've been trying to update my Windows 10 computers, it seems forever... I always get the error messages, "Unable to Update"... I've tried turning off my virus software and any software that might be running, which did not help.  This is really troublesome, and annoying..

    The error codes I most recently received (Today) is:

    There were some problems installing updates, but we'll try again later. If you keep seeing this and want to search the web or contact support for information, this may help: (0x800f0922)

    Some update files are missing or have problems. We'll try to download the update again later. Error code: (0x80070003)

                                                                                                                                     Thank you

    You may check these out about your errors: 

    Windows Update Error 0x800f0922 - Microsoft Community

    WINDOWS UPDATE FAILED - error 0x80070003 - Microsoft Q&A

    Also could you use disk management and show the partitions layout of your Windows disk ?

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-12-11T21:27:08+00:00

    Hi....

    Thank you for your quick response... I've been trying to update my Windows 10 computers, it seems forever... I always get the error messages, "Unable to Update"... I've tried turning off my virus software and any software that might be running, which did not help.  This is really troublesome, and annoying..

    The error codes I most recently received (Today) is:

    There were some problems installing updates, but we'll try again later. If you keep seeing this and want to search the web or contact support for information, this may help: (0x800f0922)

    Some update files are missing or have problems. We'll try to download the update again later. Error code: (0x80070003)

                                                                                                                                     Thank you

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  5. Sumit 44,316 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2020-12-11T16:17:05+00:00

    When is Microsoft going to get windows 10 straightened out... Windows has been trying for months to update, with out success.. And I'm having this problem with both of my windows 10 computers..  Customers will start buying APPLE computers instead. 

    Hi Sidney, what exact error code do you see on the screen?

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