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Jason wrote:
Installation of the latest feature update on my laptop has failed too
many times to count. I have tried every troubleshooting step I could
find to no avail. It looks like a clean install is all I can do. (I
tried that already (with an image backup to undo it) and it installed
correctly.) I've been reading about PCTrans and wonder if it might solve
my problem. It is normally used to move everything to a new machine -
not how I want to use it. Instead, I would use it to create an image
file of my data files and installed apps, perform a clean install, and
then use it to restore everything. Does this seem feasible?

Wouldn't that scenario also restore the broken files, viruses, and other bad things, too?

There better not be any viruses. I'm very careful about
that. Same for "broken files". When installation fails,
Update complains "Unable to Configure an Item" - which I
suspect, can't prove, is a device driver. I'd guess that
PCTrans would fail or complain at that point too but it
might proceed to restore what it can. I cannot determine
that from the documentation.