On 11/13/2017 8:41 PM, Jason wrote:
On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 00:06:24 +0000 "Good Guy"
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On 13/11/2017 17:08, Jason wrote:

Their final suggestion, 'tho they'll leave the issue open for a while,
is installation from scratch. That would be a gigantic headache, but I
may do it sometime.


How about inserting a completely new HD and start again. Your old HD
can remain as it is in an enclosure so that in the future you can try
something else with it. In terms of time and money this is the best way
forward considering you have un-replaceable data on the HD that you
can't backup despite having tons of portable HDs in your repository.

Keep your old HD in a safe place until you get fed up looking after it.
In my case this is normally after 3 days!!.

I do not have irreplacable data - it's well backed up (externally), so
that's not an issue, and I can restore the system from it, so trying a
clean install is an option. I'm concerned that I'll run into the same
problem again with some incompatibility that MS couldn't nail down that
has nothing to do with the software I have installed now. The update could
be failing for reasons having to do with hardware. I guess what annoys me
most is why the wizards can't give a specific reason for the failure. In
years past there were so-called "readiness tools" that would examine your
system to see if a new Windows version could be installed. No more?

Wondering if you have tried the "Update Assistant".

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...load/windows10

Ben