I was prompted by an icon in the System Tray to update my system. I went to Windows Update and there it was: the 22H2 update. It successfully downloaded with no problem. However:
First attempt to install failed somewhere after 60% (I wasn't really monitoring the progress closely) with a BSOD.
Second attempt to install failed at 94% with a KERNEL_MODE_HEAP_CORRUPTION BSOD
Third attempt to install made it through to 100%, but after rebooting got the KERNEL_MODE_HEAP_CORRUPTION BSOD
After that it was only an endless cycle of boot, reboot, reboot, reboot, never getting farther that seeing the spinning dots for a few seconds.
I downloaded the .ISO for 21H2 (which I had been using until today) and made a boot USB using Rufus. Can't do an in-place "upgrade," as I kind of expected, but what I didn't expect: "We couldn't find any drives." the "Where do you want to install Windows" box is blank. What the heck???
If I remove the USB and boot off the hard disk and hard power off enough times to get into the troubleshooting screens and go to Command Prompt, using DISKPART, the internal SSD hard drive is there with all its previous partitions.
Why can't Windows Install find the disk so I can reinstall Win11 and get on with life again?
(Does it have something to do with turning off Safe Boot in order to boot from the USB drive?)
First attempt to install failed somewhere after 60% (I wasn't really monitoring the progress closely) with a BSOD.
Second attempt to install failed at 94% with a KERNEL_MODE_HEAP_CORRUPTION BSOD
Third attempt to install made it through to 100%, but after rebooting got the KERNEL_MODE_HEAP_CORRUPTION BSOD
After that it was only an endless cycle of boot, reboot, reboot, reboot, never getting farther that seeing the spinning dots for a few seconds.
I downloaded the .ISO for 21H2 (which I had been using until today) and made a boot USB using Rufus. Can't do an in-place "upgrade," as I kind of expected, but what I didn't expect: "We couldn't find any drives." the "Where do you want to install Windows" box is blank. What the heck???
If I remove the USB and boot off the hard disk and hard power off enough times to get into the troubleshooting screens and go to Command Prompt, using DISKPART, the internal SSD hard drive is there with all its previous partitions.
Why can't Windows Install find the disk so I can reinstall Win11 and get on with life again?
(Does it have something to do with turning off Safe Boot in order to boot from the USB drive?)
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My Computers
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At a glance
Windows 11 Pro 25H2 (OS Build 26200.8524)AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 w/Radeon 890M32GBNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 (and IGP Radeon 890M)- OS
- Windows 11 Pro 25H2 (OS Build 26200.8524)
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Manufacturer/Model
- ASUS - ProArt PX13
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 w/Radeon 890M
- Motherboard
- AMI HN7306WU
- Memory
- 32GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 (and IGP Radeon 890M)
- Monitor(s) Displays
- external 24" Dell P2415Q
- Screen Resolution
- 3840 x 2160 on external Dell, 2880 x 1800 on laptop screen
- Hard Drives
- 1TB WD SSD
- Browser
- Vivaldi, Brave, Edge
- Antivirus
- Avast (free version)
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At a glance
Windows 11 Pro, 21H2 (Build 22000.376)i7-8650U16 GBiGPU (Intel® UHD Graphics 620)- Operating System
- Windows 11 Pro, 21H2 (Build 22000.376)
- Computer type
- Tablet
- Manufacturer/Model
- Surface Pro 6
- CPU
- i7-8650U
- Memory
- 16 GB
- Graphics card(s)
- iGPU (Intel® UHD Graphics 620)
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dell P2415Q
- Screen Resolution
- 3840 x 2160 on external Dell, 2736 x 1824 on SP6 screen
- Hard Drives
- 512GB PCIe Gen 3 x2 SSD
- Browser
- Vivaldi, Comodo Dragon, Edge
- Antivirus
- Avast (free edition)
