Acronis cloned drive will not upgrade from Win 1909 to 2004 or 20H2
I have cloned several drives (my own and professionally supported, different makes models) earlier this year, mostly laptop hard drives to equivalent or larger SSDs using Acronis 2020. All transferred cleanly and operated perfectly with the new drives. Bravo Acronis. Life is good.
All of these drives just so happened to have been cloned while running on Win 10 1909. I noticed this Summer I was having trouble updating to 2004 on some of my supported computers and nothing I could do would get these systems to complete the update to 2004. They would all crash out to an obscure error code somewhere in the middle of either the Win 10 Windows Update or with the Win 10 upgrade Assistant. The download portion always ran fine...about half way through the Install portion...unexplained error and crash out on the update.
Then it hit me last week that Every. Single. One. of these computers I was having issues with had had the hard drive cloned with Acronis. Normal 1909 monthly updates have worked flawlessly but tying to move past 1909 is just not going to happen.
I just tried skipping 2004 today and seeing if 20H2 would have any better success....nope, same problem.
Any insight you can provide to help solve this problem would be greatly appreciated. I can't believe I'm the only one seeing this problem.


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Steve Smith wrote:The other tool that I have used is to perform an in-place upgrade of Windows 10 to refresh the OS before attempting any further upgrades.
Performing an in-place upgrade immediately occurred to me as a possible solution. I taken that approach several times in the past when major updates refused to install.
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