Problem with Windows Update after a full image restore. Has anyone else had this issue?
I'm just a but curious if anyone has had a similar occurrence that I had recently that involved Windows Update failing after a full hard drive restore?
I had to do a full hard drive restore of my Windows 10 PC this week. After the restore completed I fired up my system and my PC was back to the state it was in on 8/8 when I made my backup with one glaring exception.
When I went to run Windows update to reapply all of the patches to Windows 10 and Office that occurred between the 8th and the restore Windows Update would not work and issued an 0x8024402f error that basically said "Something happened and we couldn't reach the Windows Update server". This, however, was not the state the PC was in on 8/8 when the full backup was taken as the PC got numerous patches between 8/8 and 8/25.
I searched the internet high and low for a solution to this Windows Update issue and tried many things that people suggested but nothing worked. Then yesterday, out of the blue, the PC, on it's own, was able to reach the Windows Update server and it downloaded all of the patches that I had previously tried to download by manually trying to invoke Windows Update.
Some have suggested that something I did to fry and fix the problem worked but required a cold boot to work. Others have suggested that Microsoft may have intentionally turned off updates to all Windows 10 machines to resolve some issues before issuing another cumulative update and or may have made a stealth update to an existing patch. All I know is that from the 25th thru the 27th I couldn't update my system and now it's completely patched.
Has anyone had a similar problem after a restore?
Since you did a full restore once, get a clean backup and try it again. I don't think its a Acronis issue. The Microsoft update service servers were off line for a couple days at the beginning of the month due to the problems that they had with certain systems, and an erred update, which would cause an update loop with no chance of success. Since you can't turn the update process off, they had to to that. Now I don't know when this occurred. My system was not effected. I've done several test restores of Win10 with no problems with the windows update features.
Sorry I didn't reply to this message but I didn't have notifications turned on and this got lost in the shuffle.
I think that this was a case where Microsoft turned updates off to existing Windows 10 users that had previously updated their system. My suspicion was that they had some issues with some of their Win 10 patches and decided to prevent future downloads to fix things in a cumulative update. The reason why I believe this is that I tried everything to get Windows update to work without success and then one morning things just started working for no apparent reason.
Since then however, I had so many issues with my Windows 10 system that I gave up and did a Windows 10 reset and had the reset delete everything from my HD and I started over. Quite a process to get all of my apps and data identified, accumulate my license keys, download new installs of my apps and reinstall everything. Since then Windows 10 has been working good and I have not had any further issues with Windows Update.