10-11-2024, 01:37 AM
I have been dealing with Windows 11 24H2 since Sunday. On Sunday I decided to upgrade by downloading the update assistant and it worked fine up until I logged in and 30 seconds after it would blue screen. I figured it was a one off but the next login was the same. I tried safe mode and that ended the same way, stall and reboot. I decided after 2 days of fighting it, trying a repair, rollback, installing again to a empty drive and even installing back to 23H2 that I would have to pull everything and do a little testing on a brand new WD SN580 2TB drive.
I ended up figuring out that the drive might have been part of the problem, the brand-new drive failed 24H2 installation as well, installed 23H2 and found that the drive needed a firmware update. Did the update and tried again and it failed again. At this point I just wanted a working computer, back to 23H2 and reinstalled all the hardware and I am currently rebuilding my computer.
But today I had an opportunity to study the situation a bit more. I am an IT guy, and I had a work computer that needed a brand-new install of Windows 11, so I tried my trusty Ventoy USB and tried installing 24H2 again. It failed. One of my coworkers said I should just try from a regular USB and so I used Rufus to create one with just Windows 11 24H2 on it. This worked flawlessly.
Is it possible that something about the 24H2 and Ventoy are not getting along?
I ended up figuring out that the drive might have been part of the problem, the brand-new drive failed 24H2 installation as well, installed 23H2 and found that the drive needed a firmware update. Did the update and tried again and it failed again. At this point I just wanted a working computer, back to 23H2 and reinstalled all the hardware and I am currently rebuilding my computer.
But today I had an opportunity to study the situation a bit more. I am an IT guy, and I had a work computer that needed a brand-new install of Windows 11, so I tried my trusty Ventoy USB and tried installing 24H2 again. It failed. One of my coworkers said I should just try from a regular USB and so I used Rufus to create one with just Windows 11 24H2 on it. This worked flawlessly.
Is it possible that something about the 24H2 and Ventoy are not getting along?