Windows 10 attempting to install on flash drive
As for marking a partition "active" my wife's computer ( a twin of mine) has her System Reserved partition marked "active" and the "PortableOperatingSystem" in Regedit is marked "1" and hers has downloaded and installed the Windows 10 Pro 1709 update without incident.
Note that I am not interested in a Clean Install...I am too old and dependent upon my applications to find and download them all over again. There has to be something I can do other than a Clean Install.
The System Reserved partition is already marked "active."Your primary partition can be misidentified as a flash drive for a number of reasons. Try any of the following fixes.
"* In Start, type "Disk Management" and select the first option that appears. Right click on the partition to which you want to install your drive. Select "Mark partition as active." Close Disk Management. Try installing Windows 10 now."
I tried this...the download failed (I let it run for 12 hours), locking up my computer and disorganized my hard drive...had to format the drive and then run a fresh clone to it."* In Start, type "Regedit" and select the first option. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control. Change the value of "PortableOperatingSystem" to 0."
Tried, using media creation tool...it did not install, generated the Oxc1900200 error. Whenever Windows Update Manaindicatests, it idicates that I do have the resources to install it (8GB, AMD A4-5300B APU with Radeon HD Graphics, 3.40GHz, 64-bit Operating System, x64-based processor)"If neither of these fixes work, try installing Windows 10 using the media creation tool instead:"
As for marking a partition "active" my wife's computer ( a twin of mine) has her System Reserved partition marked "active" and the "PortableOperatingSystem" in Regedit is marked "1" and hers has downloaded and installed the Windows 10 Pro 1709 update without incident.
Note that I am not interested in a Clean Install...I am too old and dependent upon my applications to find and download them all over again. There has to be something I can do other than a Clean Install.