Recent content by mgfrobozz

@Try3, re: "So you have now succeeded?" Yes, by blocking updates during the upgrade

I ran into a problem upgrading windows 10 to windows 11 that may be closely related. My installation started with about 150 minutes of slowly running from 0% to 100%, rebooted, then ran for 10 hours of "Working on updates, stalled at 0%. I finally rebooted it and got this message... The fix...

@Megahertz, re "Please explain. Did you successfully upgrade to win 11?" No. It ran ok (albeit very, very slowly) up the reboot, and after the reboot was stuck at 0% progress for 10 hours. I forced a reboot, and the installer then removed all the changes, and reverted to the old (windows 10)...

@Ghot and @XxXxX, thanks so much for your help. The detail regarding this choice is key: I changed the choice to "Not right now", and then continued the setup exactly as I had before. Not only did it successfully install, but it did everything far faster: the first phase (preparing the system...

Hi @Megahertz Re disk space, I have 23.23 GB free. I could get another 7 GB if I could delete Win11_25H2_English_x64.iso, but that's probably in-use during the upgrade. I did get a notice that during the unsuccessful upgrade that it needed more disk space, and it accepted a USB drive with 100...

Thanks for the tips, @Ghot I took a look at https://www.elevenforum.com/t/repair-install-windows-11-with-an-in-place-upgrade.418/#Two. It describes quite well what I did up to Step 9, but I didn't change handling of updates in that step (in bold, below). I'll give that a try. I was logged in...

I'm running a windows 10 system. My sole usage of the system is to run Intuit TurboTax. The system was originally a windows 7 system; Microsoft eventually required that I update to windows 10, which I did in January 2020. Intuit announced that for TurboTax 2025, they required windows 11, and I...