Update to Win11... No boot ??

[PDifolco]

Since it launched I'd held back upgrading to Win (from WIn10) as it did'nt seem really worth it, decided to do it today, and baaam, typical MS it crashes!  

Windows update tells PC is ok for Win11, fairly recent BIOS, UEFI install, PC works fine no crashes in months

Upgrading with the Installation Assistant goes fine, takes like 25min, but then PC can't reboot with some message telling me it can't find a boot drive (drives looks fine under BIOS)

 

It then reboot and uninstall Win11, boots back to WIn10 nice and cool, WTF MS ???  

[Fasauceome]

If the install just borked the boot loader, that would probably not happen again if you tried it. 

 

But there's not really much reason to. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" applies to all hardware, software, and firmware in my opinion.

[GoodBytes]

15 hours ago, PDifolco said:

Since it launched I'd held back upgrading to Win (from WIn10) as it did'nt seem really worth it, decided to do it today, and baaam, typical MS it crashes!  

Windows update tells PC is ok for Win11, fairly recent BIOS, UEFI install, PC works fine no crashes in months

Upgrading with the Installation Assistant goes fine, takes like 25min, but then PC can't reboot with some message telling me it can't find a boot drive (drives looks fine under BIOS)

 

It then reboot and uninstall Win11, boots back to WIn10 nice and cool, WTF MS ???  

Microsoft is not responsible for anything else you do with your system.

If you have had a virus, malware, that is on you. Re-install Windows is the only way to repair the system from such infection. A/V only removes them, not fix what they broke.

If you used a registry cleaner, that is again, on you.

If you used pirated software, again on you.

 

If your system was OC'ed, even if it "was stable", new actions pushes the CPU/Memory differently, and that can cause corruptions.

If you install crap apps, again, that is on you;

 

So many factors come into play. 

I can assure you that if your system is non-OCed, memory is part of your motherboard QVL list, you have have a clean install of Windows 10 with all the latest drivers installed, and upgrade to Windows 11, everything will work fine.

 

 

When millions and millions of people don't have problems, then you know something is perhaps bad on your side. Maybe investigate that, instead of saying "typical MS". While Microsoft is not perfect, and yes, they screwed up, it's not a daily occurrence.

[PDifolco]

7 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

Microsoft is not responsible for anything else you do with your system.

If you have had a virus, malware, that is on you. Re-install Windows is the only way to repair the system from such infection. A/V only removes them, not fix what they broke.

If you used a registry cleaner, that is again, on you.

If you used pirated software, again on you.

 

If your system was OC'ed, even if it "was stable", new actions pushes the CPU/Memory differently, and that can cause corruptions.

If you install crap apps, again, that is on you;

 

So many factors come into play. 

I can assure you that if your system is non-OCed, memory is part of your motherboard QVL list, you have have a clean install of Windows 10 with all the latest drivers installed, and upgrade to Windows 11, everything will work fine.

 

 

When millions and millions of people don't have problems, then you know something is perhaps bad on your side. Maybe investigate that, instead of saying "typical MS". While Microsoft is not perfect, and yes, they screwed up, it's not a daily occurrence.

Urggg...

My system is fully stable since months,

Windows licensed

Full virus/malware protection (Defender+Malwarebyte)

No reg cleaner or such

No pirated software

Has all the MS prereq for Win11 using their tools

So all that doesn't mean it won't ever crash but it's the best I can do and should help things get smoothly!

 

And then Win11 upgrade refuses to boot for no reason... but then it rollbacks to Win10 a a few secs and works fine again !

Sure it's something on my side, as millions of people did update indeed, but neither MS nor you are much of a help ...  

Occured to me that the problem may lie with my dual Win/Linux boot maybe ?

I'd retry with an Install Media, but need a new USB stick  

 

[PDifolco]

Bump, got the answer on a Linux forum !

I have Secure booot disabled, that prevents Win11 from booting  ... Stupid M$ didn't tell me anything about this (below)

 

Now seems I can enable it in BIOS, but is that a good idea and won't it mess up my Linux boot ?