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FINALLY go Windows Update to run successfully. Here's what I ended up doing: Link Removed Click "Download now" under the section titled "Creae Windows 10 installation media". Scan the downloaded file with your antivirus program (I use Malwarebytes). If clean, click on it to run it. The...

Unfortunately, the other PC is not Win10 Pro. It's just Win10. So, any other workaround? This probably occurred as I was trying to extend the WinRE partition to fix a problem I'm having with running Windows Update right now.

Hello, I'm currently fighting a problem related to Windows Update and the update named 0x80070643. While doing research on this problem, I discovered that winre is not only disabled, but the winre.wim file is missing. Is there a straight-forward way to to rebuild/restore this file? I do not...

Has anyone fixed this problem, and if so, how?

For anyone looking at the ChatGPT BOT's suggestions, none of those worked for me.

I'm currently unable to run Windows Update. It keeps coming back with "Error Encountered" and tells me to search on 0x80070643. I do this and after following a couple of links, I'm taken to a somewhat involved manual way to fix. I should note the initial Microsoft page indicated they were...

After doing some digging and posting on other Win20 forums, I did the following (using the cmd window as administrator): dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth sfc /scannow sfc chkdsk/f c: No change. So, I did more digging and came across a Windows utility named Windows Update...

Hello, I'm wanting to upgrade from Win10 Home to Pro, so I went to the start area and entered Update, then clicked "Check for updates". The screen that popped up had a few icons in the upper right-hand corner, one being Windows Update. Below those words I see Attention needed. When I click...

Well, I finally threw in the towel last night. Last thing I did was the clean boot and it made no difference. I couldn't dedicate any more time to it, so I just re-installed Windows. All is good now (although it is a headache reinstalling all the motherboard drivers, application software, and...

Just got through going through the "upgrade again." This time I first tried increasing the System Volume to 1Gb. Crapped out again at 71%. Went back and gave the System Volume 80Gb and it died again!!! (again at 71%). WTH This thing is killing me. I'll try the clean boot, but I don't think...

Both partitions are NTFS. And yes, I really want to avoid reformatting.

I can't catch a break. I was able to grab a copy of Win7 64-bit SP1 from Digital River and tried upgrading from that disk. It went through the whole process and I watched the progress on the screen. The checks it went through were: Copying Windows Files Gathering files, settings and programs...

This thing is still kicking my butt. I uninstalled SP1, rebooted, and although the SP1 entry was gone from the list of installed updates, when I right-click Computer and choose Properties, it still shows it running SP1. I did some Googling and some people said to try installing, then...

Just found out that I have to remove SP1 to do this (since it appears the disk is just Win7 with no service pack). So, I'll give this a go next weekend when my wife is out of town and post the results here.

I only had two AV programs because I had Avast to start with (it's the one I always use), but had installed Microsoft's AV as an additional check. That one has been removed now). Well, here's my problem now. I tried doing the reinstall, but after it went through a few steps and downloaded the...