UG freezes ay 99%

[amsoil man]

Upgrading my new Dell and it's stuck at 99%.....this is the 2nd time.

Any fix or work around for this?

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

 Even if the progress percentage appears stuck, the upgrade is still running.

An error message will be displayed in case of actual failure.

Microsoft recommends giving the upgrade a full 24 hours to complete,  even though it shouldn't take that long.

[Rich-M]

I am not suggesting you do this but in a similar case I just shut down and restarted to discover the update was complete

but it wasn't showing on screen. Definitely wait 24 hours before trying that.

[amsoil man]

Well...after 5 hrs,I got this error message.

what now?

tks

[Rich-M]

Gary suggested I suggest Running sfc /scannow  from an elevated cmd prompt. Search for ".cmd" and then right click the answer and choose "run as administrator" and then type in "sfc /scannow" and hit "enter" on keyboard.

[Rich-M]

In addition to that Gary also suggests this that makes sense to me:

For a computer running Windows 8 or later, another powerful command line utility users can run is the Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool that is used to service a Windows installation. Similar to the System File Checker utility, you can use DISM to correct corrupted system files and determine the status of the system.

• Press Windows key + X

• Click Command Prompt (Admin)

• Type each command at the prompt then hit enter after each scan is complete)

• Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth

• Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth

• Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

[Vadim]

11 hours ago, amsoil man said:

Well...after 5 hrs,I got this error message.

what now?

 

I ran into this same issue yesterday. Upgrading from Windows 7.

Upgrade ran all night and when I woke up, it was sitting at 99%. I did a reboot then ran Windows update again. Guess what, it need some updates...

Once I fully patched and reboot, I kicked off the upgrade again using the tip from @adacosta. Although I missed the deadline to upgrade, I used the blog post here: https://windows10.help/blogs/entry/6-windows-10-free-upgrade-apparently-still-available/ for my Windows 7 -> WIndows 10 Upgrade.

Anyway, long story short, I kicked off the upgrade again and it took that second time after Windows 7 was fully patched.

So... ya might give that a shot!

 

[amsoil man]

After 34 hrs stuck at 99%,I just did a manual install.

 

Microsoft has a real problem that needs to be fixed.

 

\am

 

[ShockerSH]

4 hours ago, amsoil man said:

I just did a manual install.

What did you do exactly? Are you upgraded then? 

[Rich-M]

Yes how did you get it to go?

[amsoil man]

I just used the CD to Upgrade.

 

[Rich-M]

OK but what cd?

[amsoil man]

Win 10 upgrade CD

[Rich-M]

Using a Windows dvd cannot give you the updates you were trying to do, it probably just returned you to prior to the updates then.

[amsoil man]

No,I was attempting an upgrade from 7 to 10.

18 minutes ago, Rich-M said:

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[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

You are upgrading to Windows 10.

Rich assumed that you were updating.

[amsoil man]

My original post was..

Upgrading my new Dell and it's stuck at 99%.....this is the 2nd time.

Any fix or work around for this?

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

Have you made sure that your Windows 7 SP1 has been completely updated with Windows updates before you attempt the Windows 10 upgrade?

That could be why it is failing.

[amsoil man]

Yep.......ran update 2 min before using the upgrade assistant.

 

All fixed now.Closed

[Rich-M]

OK so it is now up to Windows 10? I am so confused.

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

On ‎9‎/‎20‎/‎2016 at 3:59 PM, amsoil man said:

Yep.......ran update 2 min before using the upgrade assistant.

 

All fixed now.Closed

That's great.

Thank you for letting us know.  

[ShockerSH]

 

On 9/18/2016 at 11:21 PM, Vadim said:

Once I fully patched and reboot, I kicked off the upgrade again using the tip from @adacosta. Although I missed the deadline to upgrade, I used the blog post here: https://windows10.help/blogs/entry/6-windows-10-free-upgrade-apparently-still-available/ for my Windows 7 -> WIndows 10 Upgrade.

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I just upgraded an old DELL (Latitude e6420) to Windows 10. It was an upgrade from Windows 7. I used the Accessibility link from @adacosta so thanks to you and @Vadim!

 

[NoMorePane]

I have started the Windows 10 upgrade 3 times on my Windows 7 computer.  The first time it hung at 99% complete and after waiting 6 hours I killed it,

Read web pages about solutions, did changes.  Start upgrade again.  Same result, waited 5 hours on 99% complete.  Installed more solutions

(kill virus checker, Skye, Remove all USB devices).  Started again, same results after 6 hours. 

Microsoft has such a command of the market they can ignore a problem like this.  I see reports from October of 2015.  1000s in 2016.

So I found the solution:  Loaded OpenSuse Leap 42.1    KDE interface works great.  There is on board documentation.  Yast is a graphic

install/update interface that actually tells you what it is doing and each step of progress.   The Windows update simple sets the at

Percent Complete: 99%.   Find a spare computer and try it.   

[Rich-M]

That's the easy way! Unfortunately I wish it was predictable or even explainable.

[Steve K.]

On 1/3/2017 at 7:35 AM, Rich-M said:

That's the easy way! Unfortunately I wish it was predictable or even explainable.

Unfortunately, unexplainable does happen from time-to-time. But honestly, if you think about it, considering the millions of upgrades performed with the millions of non-Microsoft apps and hardware and software... (blah), it's Amazing they support an upgrade to the OS at all.

From time-to-time, issues will be encountered but, overall, they do a really good job.