Is this right? It sounds like a lot of posters were able to downgrade from successfully. Did you have to sacrifice everything to get there?
Or did I hopefully miss a step along the way? Also what about serial number and activation or whatever else happens now? I believe the serial is etched on the cpu or some such so does that mean activation is no longer needed? Too busy so another on the shelf. New computer self built. I must use special 3rd Party software to unlock them just to regain access. Multiply that annoyance times once for every folder. You have to use the PIN to unlock the device because during the installation you activated Window Hello you was prompted to configure a PIN , which generally is a good thing.
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Works well. I would do what Windows updates I could, and then I would use the media creation tool. The same tool you use to go from 7 to Just choose the option to upgrade this PC. Oh wow, that's slick. It bugs me though that there are duplicated entries for 20H2 v2. Petty, but hey, I'm IT and now I want to explore what bug caused this.
That's just it, This PC only downloaded 3 or 4 updates, one of which was the 20H2 and since that failed the Windows Update thinks it's done. I feel like the engineers didn't anticipate people starting from a factory restore and their rollup-style updates don't play well from that far back in the past. But you're right I've got the Update Assistant installing 21H1 as we speak. Here's to hoping it works. That works. I think the media creation tool is pretty much the same thing. I had a Windows 7 media center edition machine and it wouldn't do the upgrade assistant because that's not part of the upgrade path I guess.
The solution? Media creation tool and upgrade this PC now. I may have even made the ISO with the tool and mounted it. I think that tool works differently than the upgrade assistant. I don't think I've ever had it fail. If you just factory restored, do you have any data?
Why not just boot off of Win 20H2 installation media and kill the partitions and start from scratch?
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