So I took the afternoon off yesterday, as I had to sit around the house waiting for a Uverse-TV installer (who never showed, gotta love AT&T). Twiddling my thumbs waiting, I decided to update my main box to 1903. Which did not go well, but I did eventually get there. This is a desktop computer, with an i5 7600k (quad core, 3.8 GHz), so decent but not great. I have 4 spinning hard drives (3.0, 3.0, 2.5, 1.5 Tb) and a 256 gig M2 SSD for the boot drive. 24 gigs of memory. OS is (was) Enterprise 1809, permanently activated via the method which cannot be mentioned here. I have an iso file created by the UUP downloader (multi-image, including Enterprise). I mounted the iso via Explorer, started setup.exe, and walked away. A little while loader, I came back and the computer was stuck on a reboot. Big “Gigabyte” on the screen (from the BIOS) and a spinner. I watched that for about 2 minutes, and then powered off. When I powered back on, the computer rebooted to an old Windows which was on the 1.5 TB spinning hard drive. Wonderful, simply wonderful. I powered down, unhooked all of the spinning hard drives, and powered it up. Get a message about failed upgrade, reverting, a few minutes later I’m running 1809 from the SSD. By this time, I was determined to make this work, and I always have backups of everything important, so … Leave only the SSD connected, boot from a flash drive, wipe the SSD, and do a clean install of 1903 Enterprise. It will take me a few days (weeks?) to get everything back the way I want it, but I do have a nice clean install, which is probably better anyway.
On my cheapo Lenovo laptop I wanted to upgrade from W8.1 to W10 v1809 but using MS Upgrade assistant the only choice is v1903 So I am using a DVD w/ v1803 on it to test if the laptop will run W10 (Lenovo says no for my model G500)
I am sure there is some logic in that and I just can't see it. (What's wrong with going straight to 1903? Why didn't you insist on picking any other arbitrary Win10 version instead of 18xx? ) By the way, I gave up fighting with DISM and did an "in place upgrade" (from an ISO with integrated .116 CU) to finally move past .86 (where WU got stuck). I didn't know the installer can be used like this to move between minor builds.
Upgraded an old pc with 1809 to 1903 without problems. It has multiple hdd´s. So, the hdd assigment, usb drives bug is still a mistery.
v1903 is too buggy atm & I usually will wait a minimum of 6 months before installing a newer upgrade.
More from Microsoft The May 2019 Update, which is the latest stable version of Windows 10, will be pushed to devices running Windows 10 April 2018 Update and older automatically via Windows Update. This means Windows Update will download all the necessary files all by itself in the background and then prompt for a restart when it’s ready to initiate the update to Windows 10 version 1903. We will begin updating devices running the April 2018 Update, and earlier versions of Windows 10, to ensure we can continue to service these devices and provide the latest updates, security updates and improvements,” John Cable, Director of Program Management, Windows Servicing and Delivery
Windows 10 v1903 b18362.30 x64/x86 EN-US Home/Pro iso file info: Thanks to those who posted above from which the following info has been collated below. Disc name: Windows 10 (consumer editions), version 1903 (x64) - DVD (English). Disc contains: Windows 10 v1903 b18362.30 64-bit EN-US Home/Pro. Disc ISO file: en_windows_10_consumer_editions_version_1903_x64_dvd_b980e68c.iso. Disc ISO file size: 4,939,528,192 bytes. NOTE: This is too big to fit on traditional DVD. Burn to DL DVD. Disc ISO file SHA1: 344ca92459c23663d5f857c72a7c030f85f19be8. NOTE: This identical SHA1 file can be downloaded as Win10_1903_V1_English_x64.iso from microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO using the web browser user-agent trickeration method, NOT the media creation tool. Disc name: Windows 10 (consumer editions), version 1903 (x86) - DVD (English). Disc contains: Windows 10 v1903 b18362.30 32-bit EN-US Home/Pro. Disc ISO file: en_windows_10_consumer_editions_version_1903_x86_dvd_b40c5211.iso. Disc ISO file size: 3,493,140,480 bytes. Disc ISO file SHA1: e9e187ce83a662619ed05b5b783c12f861e18682. NOTE: This identical SHA1 file can be downloaded as Win10_1903_V1_English_x32.iso from microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO using the web browser user-agent trickeration method, NOT the media creation tool. Both of these discs can used to perform Upgrade or Custom (aka, clean/new) installation. Custom installation does not require product key. During Custom installation setup, when prompted, click I don't have a product key. After Custom installation is completed, provide Home or Pro product key within 3 days or so; otherwise, desktop changes. Thanks, steve_str
When the system has a MSDM for Home, the initial setup won't ask for a key and instantly select Home from the ISO (same for any other MSDM bioskey sku, except Enterprise, because it's not available on the consumer iso). And the system will be auto activated by the MSDM. To avoid this and the question for a key, use an ei.cfg like this (put it in ISO:\Sources\): Code: [Channel] _Default [VL] 0 This will unlock all available sku's on the wim: Btw, these are the sku's from the consumer ISO, not home/pro only (N and CSL are only available for supported languages). Code: [01] 4/2/2019 en-US x64 10.0.18362.30 Windows 10 Home | Core [02] 4/2/2019 en-US x64 10.0.18362.30 Windows 10 Home N | CoreN [03] 4/2/2019 en-US x64 10.0.18362.30 Windows 10 Home Single Language | CoreSingleLanguage [04] 4/2/2019 en-US x64 10.0.18362.30 Windows 10 Education | Education [05] 4/2/2019 en-US x64 10.0.18362.30 Windows 10 Education N | EducationN [06] 4/2/2019 en-US x64 10.0.18362.30 Windows 10 Pro | Professional [07] 4/2/2019 en-US x64 10.0.18362.30 Windows 10 Pro N | ProfessionalN [08] 4/2/2019 en-US x64 10.0.18362.30 Windows 10 Pro Education | ProfessionalEducation [09] 4/2/2019 en-US x64 10.0.18362.30 Windows 10 Pro Education N | ProfessionalEducationN [10] 4/2/2019 en-US x64 10.0.18362.30 Windows 10 Pro for Workstations | ProfessionalWorkstation [11] 4/2/2019 en-US x64 10.0.18362.30 Windows 10 Pro N for Workstations | ProfessionalWorkstationN Download Techbench/MVS ISO, UUP or ESD: https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/download-windows-install-media-techbench-uup-svf-esd.72165/ * * * [ Media Content ] 18362.30 MVS ISO's (Techbench ISO's = MVS Consumer ISO's!!!) https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...ow-rp-19h1_release.79259/page-67#post-1517000 18362.30 ESD's https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...c-rp-19h1_release.79259/page-144#post-1525617