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- #WINDOWS 8.1 MEDIA CREATION TOOL FAILED TO COMPLETE UPDATE#
- #WINDOWS 8.1 MEDIA CREATION TOOL FAILED TO COMPLETE UPGRADE#
I ran the Windows 10 upgrade again, and the upgrade proceeded smoothly. Rufus is probably the most popular tool that can create a Windows To Go drive for Windows 8 and 10, though it may not be so obvious at first glance. To rebuild BCD, you can read the post: Step-by-Step Guide to Repair and Fix MBR Windows 7/8/8.1/10 to learn some. Boot your computer from Windows 10 installation media as usual and. Windows 8.1 booted up just fine with the newly resized partitions. Third-party Windows To Go creation tools. Some people complain that they encounter the issue of Windows could not complete the installation after. The upgrade went smoothly till the last step and then started restoring the previous version of Windows, which was Windows 8.1. I did that and let it do its work, and then all was good. The other day, I tried updating my Lenovo Thinkpad T410s laptop running Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 using the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool. After hitting Apply, Windows has to be rebooted for the tool to make the change. I shrunk my OS partition by 200 MB and increased the system reserved partition to 300 MB. The UI makes it really easy to drag the OS partition to resize it a bit smaller and then extend the system reserved partition to make it bigger. They were complimentary of the pro version, so I decided to give it a try. I did a search and found a review on PCMag. The thread on reddit mentioned a tool called MiniTool Partition Wizard Free. I ran the Windows 10 upgrade, and this time it got further before failing and failed with a different message (I don’t remember exactly what it said).Īt this point I decided to extend the system partition. I followed the instructions and had more than 50 MB free on system partition. It included commands that I didn’t actually know existed (I’ve never needed takeown). I ran across a couple of places, such as this one on reddit, that had a set of instructions to free up space. Hello, i'm trying to Factory Reset my Windows 8. I pulled up diskmgmt.msc and saw that my system partition had a size of 100 MB and was essentially completely full – 3% free. I tried my other desktop and got the same message.
#WINDOWS 8.1 MEDIA CREATION TOOL FAILED TO COMPLETE UPDATE#
The first one failed with the message saying, “We couldn’t update the system reserved partition.” That happened after it downloaded updates (that takes a while). I used the flash drive to upgrade my Surface Pro with no issues. For me, the media creation tool wouldn’t recognize the USB drive, so I chose the ISO and copied the contents to my flash drive. Since I had multiple machines to upgrade, I downloaded the Windows 10 installer to a USB flash drive using the media creation tool mentioned on Download Windows 10. I had two desktops and one Surface Pro (the first one) running Windows 8.1. Over the weekend I upgraded my machines at home to Windows 10. Since this involves resizing partitions, it could wipe out all of your data. Disclaimer: This is what worked for me, and it’s not guidance from Microsoft.