How to check and force a Windows 10 upgrade

[Mohamed Elgamal]

reserved but nothing till now!
and the upgrade icon in the task bar is gone

 

[CapoFantasma97]

Tried this trick, but not working.



Then I tried Windows Media Creation Tool. Problem is, after it ends the download, the window disappear and I can't install!

 

[Gokulakrishnan]

Where you get that log file dude

 

[CapoFantasma97]

Tried this trick, but not working.





Then I tried Windows Media Creation Tool. Problem is, after it ends the download, the window disappear and I can't install!

I found the solution:

After download, go to C:\$Windows.~WS\Sources\Windows\sources and run Setupprep.exe

 

[Bobvfr]

It didn't activate until 10 minutes ago so 10 hours later, got to admit I was wondering of I had made a mistake.

 

[anon(5383410)]

I tried the wuaucllt.exe /updatenow command and all it did was remove the "reserve windows" icon from my taskbar so now I'm not even sure the update will still download.

 

[hyperthermia]

i was trying to follow that file but cant get deeper than c>windows . can be give more details please? thank you

 

[Mohamed Elgamal]

I tried the wuaucllt.exe /updatenow command and all it did was remove the "reserve windows" icon from my taskbar so now I'm not even sure the update will still download.

same happened with me!
but I checked the windows update in control panel it shows it's reserved View attachment 109608

 

[shreyas24]

How do you bring up the command prompt I used earlier today and now I can't remember how to bring it up again.

In start menu programs>accessories>command prompt>run as administrator

Or windows+R and type cmd

 

[sheldon cohn]

I read the post yesterday, I opened a command window as administrator, entered the command to trigger the
download, but only receive Defender updates. Tried the command today to trigger the download, but still only
received Defender updates. I noticed by going to the folder $Windows.^BT and clicking setup, it tries to load
Windows but comes up with an error 0x80070002, can't find boot.wim

 

[MTTF]

I had success getting it to download and prepare to install but then I got an error message that the install had failed. My computer is fully compatible so I don't know what happened. Now I can't get it to work again. I guess Big Brother foiled my plan. If I had known that reserving a copy was not going to get me the OS on the 29th I would have done something different. Auspicious start.

 

[Ashish Gupta888]

I had success getting it to download and prepare to install but then I got an error message that the install had failed. My computer is fully compatible so I don't know what happened. Now I can't get it to work again. I guess Big Brother foiled my plan. If I had known that reserving a copy was not going to get me the OS on the 29th I would have done something different. Auspicious start.

In my case, it happened due to inconsistent download and was able to get rid of this issue after I removed all contents from
C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download folder. Once done, opened command prompt as administrator and run following command:

wuaucllt.exe /updatenow

This initiated the update and successfully completed W10 installation.

Few things to note: Make sure to set the update settings as Automatically download and install the updates before hitting the command. Also, keep the Windows Update page open while you are set to hit the command.

 

[BryGuyNovice2014]

The Only Thing I'm Getting So far for my desk computer is Getting Setup Files, nothing else...

 

[MikeSo]

Windows Update Installation Failure 80240020 - Microsoft Community

Official Microsoft solution:

Locate the registry key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\OSUpgrade]

It should exist, but if not, create it.
Create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value with Name = "AllowOSUpgrade” (without the quotes), and set the Value = 0x00000001.

Once the registry key is modified, close and reopen the desktop Control Panel, go to Windows Update and check for updates. You should now be able to click the Get Started button to upgrade to Windows 10. Note: Windows 8.1 users must go to the desktop Control Panel, and not the modern Windows Update UI.

Turns out there was nothing wrong for many (most?) of us, Microsoft just decided to give us a really ****ty error message. We were just lower on the install priority list.

 

[Rafael Yousuf]

Windows Update Installation Failure 80240020 - Microsoft Community

Official Microsoft solution:


Turns out there was nothing wrong for many (most?) of us, Microsoft just decided to give us a really ****ty error message. We were just lower on the install priority list.

This is really helpful, thank you so much.

 

[mccririck]

Apparently I will be able to upgrade in the coming days or weeks....

 

[Jays1fan]

I tried the last suggestion and STILL get windows 10 FAILED.

 

[Michael Tsoukalas]

Thank you so much, I was searching for a solution since launch, tried reinstalling updates, running the batch file, even a clean install. This did it!

 

[MadSci2]

Same here. All in all, pretty disappointing :-(

 

[MadSci2]

You need to start by revealing "Hidden Folders" in your C drive. Instructions are here:

How to view hidden files and folders in Windows 8.1

Be SURE to re-hide them afterwards. Hiding them is a powerful protection against accidental corruption of your Windows OS.

After that look for more info here on the Forums.