Microsoft Started rolling out windows 10 October 2020 update version 20H2 to the compatible Devices, With sew of New Features, Security improvements and more. And it’s available for free, for all Genuine Windows 10 users connected to Microsoft server. Also, Microsoft Released Official Upgrade Assistant, Media Creation Tool to make the manual Upgrade process Smooth. But Some of the users Report unable To Upgrade Windows 10 version 20H2, The October 2020update stuck downloading or Getting Different Error like We couldn’t install Windows 10 etc.

Failed to install Windows 10 version 20H2

There are many factors that are involved While Upgrade To A Big Update, Such As minimum System Requirement, enough Storage, Missing or damaged System Files, Corrupted Update Cache files etc. If you Are also having issue Windows Fails to Upgrade To Windows 10 version 20H2. Tried To upgrade Via Upgrade Assistance or Media Creation Tool Still Unable To Upgrade To Windows 10 October 2020 update, Here we have some applicable solutions to fix this.

Check Minimum System Requirement

If you have a new System Skip This Step, Or if you are using an old Computer or Laptop And try To upgrade/Install Windows 10 October 2020 update So make Sure that meet the minimum system Requirement to upgrade to windows 10 version 20H2.

Minimum system requirements to install windows 10 October 2020 update version 20H2 :

• Processor: 1GHz or faster processor or SoC
• RAM: 1GB for 32-bit or 2GB for 64-bit
• Hard disk space: 32GB for 32-bit OS or 32 GB for 64-bit OS
• Graphics card: DirectX9 or later with WDDM 1.0 driver
• Display: 800×600

Check have enough disk space

Also As Discussed on System Requirement, There is a minimum of 32 GB of free Storage space Required To upgrade, Install Windows 10 version 20H2. So make sure you have enough Free Disk Space, If not you can run the storage sense To clear unnecessary junk, Cache, System Error files, Or move Some Data from Desktop, download Folder To external Device To free up The Disk space.

Check Update Service is running

As discussed Before Windows 10 download, Install and upgrade to the Latest windows 10 version 20H2 Automatically. If due to some Reason you have disabled to Windows Update Service (for preventing Windows auto update installation purpose ), Or The updates Service is not running This may Also Cause Different Issue while upgrade To Windows 10 version 20H2.

• Press Win + R, Type Services.msc and hit the enter key.
• On Windows Services Scroll Down, Look for Windows update service.
• If it’s running simply Right-click on it and select Restart.
• Or if it’s not started then double click on it, Change the startup type automatic,
• And start the service next to service status.
• click apply, Ok and Restart windows, Now Try to upgrade windows 10 October 2020 update.

Make sure your system date and time plus regional settings are correct.

Also, make Sure the Defer Upgrades option is not set to delay upgrades.

• You can check this from Settings > Update & security. 
• Then go to Advanced option,
• And here make sure to set the option for deferring updates to 0.

Also check the internet isn’t set to metered connection, which may block the windows 10 version 20H2 Update from installing on their computers.

• You can Check Metered connection From Settings
• Network & Internet then Change connection properties
• Here Toggle Set as metered connection is off.

Disable or temporarily uninstall third-party antivirus and firewall (if exists), because they may also block the update. Also, Run System File Checker Tool to Scan And Restore Missing damaged System Files which may prevent Windows To upgrade to October 2020 update. Also Check and fix Disk Drive Errors, bad Sectors using the CHKDSK command.

Run Update Troubleshooter

Run windows update Troubleshooter following steps below. That probably automatically detects and fixes the problems feature update to install.

• Open Windows Settings
• Go to Update & Security then Troubleshoot.
• Select Windows update and Run The Troubleshooter
• This will start the diagnostic process, restart windows update and its related services.
• Check windows update components for corruption and try to correct them.
• After that restart windows and try to upgrade windows 10 October 2020 update.

Still, have failed to upgrade try to manually reset windows update components.

Reset Windows Update components

If After Apply all the Above options still unable to upgrade to windows 10 October 2020 update? Try To Reset The Windows Update Components Such As software Distributor Folder, Catroor2 folder Where Window Store the important update files. If any of the update files corrupted you may face different errors while downloading and install updates. or Windows Update Stuck at any point while downloading and install updates.

Reset Update Components

Open administrative Command Prompt and type following commands one-by-one followed by enter key.

net stop wuauserv

net stop cryptSvc

net stop bits

net stop msiserver

Ren C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old

Ren C:\Windows\System32\catroot2 Catroot2.old

net start wuauserv

net start cryptSvc

net start bits

net start msiserver

At last Type, Exit to Close the Command Prompt window and reboot the machine.

Now Try to upgrade To Windows 10 October 2020 update via upgrade Assistant, Or using media Creation Tool. Did these solutions help to fix Windows 10 20H2 update problem? Let us know on comments below, also read:

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