The Windows 10 1909 update came down a couple of days ago. When I rebooted to install it, it went through its pre-reboot process, then after it rebooted, I got a “No operating system found.” message.
I tried the startup repair, which didn’t do anything.
I had another SSD with an installation from a month ago, so I put that in and booted back into Windows.
When the 1909 update came down, the exact same thing happened.
Oddly enough, my files were right where I left the. Everything still seemed to be on the drive and accessible.
Today I wiped my nvme SSD and installed from clean media. So far, so good.
Has anyone else run into anything similar with 1909?
Do you have multiple devices in your PC that could be bootable…? Did you have a USB stick in a drive, for example? I’ve heard they had had an issue with USB sticks… but I thought I heard it had been addressed.
No, I didn’t have any USB sticks plugged in. Same for external drives. I have 2 other SATA drives in the PC when the updates happened. I don’t know if that had something to do with it.
When I re-installed, I unplugged all the drives and connected them after I was done.
Beyond that, I have no idea what’s going on. Maybe my install was just too old and crusty.
No problems whatsoever with the upgrade. I made sure I had installed all the month’s patches first, including the 1903 cumulative update that took a while (PC behaved as it was doing an in-place upgrade with two restarts).
1909 went perfectly for me, but I get that I could be an exception. It was also the first time I don’t remember seeing the whole “Your documents are right where we left them” message after logging in.
In the interest of disclosure - my PC was purchased in Jan 2015 and ran Windows 8.1. I performed the in-place upgrade to Windows 10 and have installed every updated since then without issue. I haven’t done any wipe-and-reload. Don’t know what that means - but I know a lot of people like to wipe and reload their machine - and I haven’t done that in 4 1/2 years with this machine.
Been pushing this update out to my users, no issues so far. I’ve been running Insider Preview (Slow Ring) at home so I know what to expect, and I haven’t had any issues with it. I run SSDs on both the work and home computers, but they are SATA connected, so I wonder if it’s a driver compatibility issue with your NVME controller resulting from upgrading instead of a clean install.
Just my two cents. Hopefully this can point in the right direction.
Possible, but this happened on two SSDs. One of them is NVME and the other was SATA.
owever, both of these installs started on older HDDs and were cloned to SSDs. So, I’m starting to think that it might’ve just been a case of some artifact from the multiple clonings finally creeping up.
I think this might really be an outlier as far as issues goes. It messed with my day, sure, but it didn’t do much beyond that.
In both cases they were GPT partitions. I have no idea what went wrong, all the files still seem to be there, but it doesn’t boot from the drive anymore. I could try a repair using a USB stick, that might work, but at this point I’ve clean installed and it’s working great.