On 11/13/2017 7:41 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?

Very frustrating problem Indeed,, I had one of my friends machines over
to look for much the same reason a couple weeks ago and spent a fair
amount of time trying to get it updated to 1703, Having no luck with it
I finally decided to bite the bullet and do a good backup on Macrium
Reflect and save all his email and photo stuff to USB drives.
I made sure he had his relevant program disks and made a list of all
installed software. and drivers.
Then wiped the disk knowing I could go back to where we were if things
didn't work.
Well in about 4 hours I had the system up and running and reinstalled
his 4 or 5 major programs, The little programs and utilities he could
install at his leisure.
So what seemed a gargantuan job wasn't half as bad as anticipated
and he now has a faster cleaner system without all that Win 7 and 8
cruft dragging along.
HTH

Rene