Windows 11 Pro: Windows Update Fails at 98% and Repair Install Fails at 88%


Guys, I am considering doing a clean install of Windows 11, opinions for the best way to do it, tks.

  • 2. Clean Install from within Windows.

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I did a clean install of Windows, that was the only real option, not really a solution to the problem. 😁


Just after reading the title, I was gonna suggest that, but I didn't want to crush your spirit.

If you haven't done anything really weird to your comp and the In-Place doesn't work... go straight to clean install.
I would just put a 2TB HDD in there to store things, and backups on.

Then via the backup software bootable media, you can access the backups even if Windows won't boot.


I got tired of trusting MS so I just became a backup junky.
See this post...

 

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Just after reading the title, I was gonna suggest that, but I didn't want to crush your spirit.

If you haven't done anything really weird to your comp and the In-Place doesn't work... go straight to clean install.
I would just put a 2TB HDD in there to store things, and backups on.

Then via the backup software bootable media, you can access the backups even if Windows won't boot.


I got tired of trusting MS so I just became a backup junky.
See this post...

Me too.
I back up my Windows drive daily, also if major changes after back up has run.
Most of my programs are on a different drive which I backup twice a week.
Documents etc are on another drive as well as OneDrive, and they are backed up weekly.
Backups are on two different drives.
All my backups are also on external drives.

Unfortunately I only found this problem too late, by one day, as the backup before the bad update had been deleted by the backup program due to lack of space.

The good thing to come from it is that I have a new Windows installation which I haven't done for ages.
 
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