windows 10 Windows 10 refuses to update

[Charix]

Basically, Windows 10 will not update to Anniversary Edition. I have tried every method that I can think of, including the built in updater in settings, the windows media creation tool, the windows 10 upgrade tool, yea.... It refuses to update. I always get some kind of an error message. Microsoft support isn't helping me at all, the people there just keep trying things that don't work. Any suggestions for how I can get the freaking anniversary edition on my computer?

[Enderman]

http://www.howtogeek.com/224342/how-to-clean-install-windows-10/

[Charix]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

http://www.howtogeek.com/224342/how-to-clean-install-windows-10/

Any ideas without wiping my system? It would be extremely tedious to reinstall and move all my sh*t...

[ShadySocks]

You are missing an update package.

[Charix]

1 minute ago, ShadySocks said:

You are missing an update package.

How do I get said update package?

[Enderman]

6 minutes ago, MTMaster said:

Any ideas without wiping my system? It would be extremely tedious to reinstall and move all my sh*t...

It's the best way to do it, especially if you upgraded to 10 instead of clean installing.

[Charix]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

It's the best way to do it, especially if you upgraded to 10 instead of clean installing.

It was a clean install

[Enderman]

4 minutes ago, MTMaster said:

It was a clean install

U sure? You unplugged any other drives and formatted all partitions?

[Charix]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

U sure? You unplugged any other drives and formatted all partitions?

Well, not partitions on other drive, but on my boot drive, yes.

[Enderman]

3 minutes ago, MTMaster said:

Well, not partitions on other drive, but on my boot drive, yes.

Ok that's really weird then.

Try sfc /scannow in admin CMD.

[Charix]

3 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Ok that's really weird then.

Try sfc /scannow in admin CMD.

Alright, I'll try that.

[Charix]

10 hours ago, Enderman said:

Ok that's really weird then.

Try sfc /scannow in admin CMD.

 

[Enderman]

1 hour ago, MTMaster said:

 

 

Welp that sucks. The only thing I would do at this point is just clean install...

Clearly something got screwed up in your software

[SansVarnic]

You my friend are the first I know of to report this phenomenon and I assure you there are those that worship you at the very moment (but I am not one of those)

 

My advice is to clean install your OS.

[samiscool51]

does the updater say it can't connect to the update servers

if so thats a problem that many people have had over many computers

i don't know why but the update servers have been failing to provide updates to certain systems

microsoft is trying to fix it but it might be a while

in the mean time keep the system off and check for updates on a different machine until it has connected to the update servers

if it has try with your current system and see if it can connect and update