Microsoft Blocks Windows 10 May 2019 Update on PCs That Use USB Storage or SD Cards

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Microsoft has published a support document today warning Windows 10 users that the impending May 2019 Update may not install on their systems if they use external USB storage devices or SD cards.

The OS maker cited problems with "inappropriate drive reassignment" as the main reason for blocking the May 2019 Update.

"Inappropriate drive reassignment can occur on eligible computers that have an external USB device or SD memory card attached during the installation of the May 2019 update," the company said. "For this reason, these computers are currently blocked from receiving the May 2019 Update."

The following error message will be shown for Windows 10 users where the May 2019 Update has been blocked because of problematic external USB storage devices or SD cards.

ms-error-message-sd-usb.png


Image: Microsoft

Fortunately, there's a quick and simple workaround for this issue. Microsoft recommends that users remove any external USB or SD media and restart the May 2019 Update installation.
 
This is what you get from a desktop OS monopoly. M$ should have been broken up back in the 90's - then basically take all of the technological achievements since then, that we now enjoy, and roll them back 5-10 years; that's when we would have gotten them had M$ not been a monopoly in this space.

But hey, fatcats gotta get fat.
 
This is what you get from a desktop OS monopoly. M$ should have been broken up back in the 90's - then basically take all of the technological achievements since then, that we now enjoy, and roll them back 5-10 years; that's when we would have gotten them had M$ not been a monopoly in this space.

But hey, fatcats gotta get fat.

Wow, yeah, good thing everything is Microsoft's fault. /s :rolleyes: Yep, we would have had 2080Ti's and flying cars in 2013 or earlier if it were not for Microsoft. /s

Edit: Oh, and I see that they found the problem and blocked the update before it screwed things up. In the meantime, unplugging the external usb drive or SD card and installing the update would work. In the meantime, they have time to fix it since the 1903 update is not mandatory anyways, but voluntary.
 
Wow, yeah, good thing everything is Microsoft's fault. /s :rolleyes: Yep, we would have had 2080Ti's and flying cars in 2013 or earlier if it were not for Microsoft. /s

Edit: Oh, and I see that they found the problem and blocked the update before it screwed things up. In the meantime, unplugging the external usb drive or SD card and installing the update would work. In the meantime, they have time to fix it since the 1903 update is not mandatory anyways, but voluntary.

Do you ever say anything not necessarily negative, but realistic regarding the current situation considering Windows 10?

The OS could boot to a black screen (actually, there is a situation where it literally does just that) and you'd sit there and defend it, trying to convince people that booting to a black desktop where the only thing that works is task manager is actually a good thing.
 
Do you ever say anything not necessarily negative, but realistic regarding the current situation considering Windows 10?

The OS could boot to a black screen (actually, there is a situation where it literally does just that) and you'd sit there and defend it, trying to convince people that booting to a black desktop where the only thing that works is task manager is actually a good thing.

You bash it incessantly, he defends it just the same.

Do you ever say anything positive?
 
Wow, yeah, good thing everything is Microsoft's fault. /s :rolleyes: Yep, we would have had 2080Ti's and flying cars in 2013 or earlier if it were not for Microsoft. /s

Edit: Oh, and I see that they found the problem and blocked the update before it screwed things up. In the meantime, unplugging the external usb drive or SD card and installing the update would work. In the meantime, they have time to fix it since the 1903 update is not mandatory anyways, but voluntary.

The reason I even feel this ways is because I remember back in the 2000's when I first installed Linux and felt the joy of being able to change the look and feel of nearly everything and not have to restart it every day. This sense of joy was short-lived when I came to the realization that Linux wasn't compatible with fucking ANYTHING..... Then I move back to the Windows OS - it looks like shit by comparison and I have to restart it all the time, but my games and school shit worked on it so I had little choice as did most people..... hooray monopolies!


So yes, Microsoft has an unregulated monopoly on the desktop OS market and it has been this way for the longest time - any words to the contrary are pure delusion (including "just use Linux if you don't like it" - that was shot down long, long ago.. though technically today you can sort of effectively use Linux I guess - it's getting better).

Also, notice I did not include hardware advancements in my original post, only software - clear demagoguery with the "2080ti" and "flying cars" statement.

Finally, on the point of everything being Microsoft's fault, when you think of the insidious and parasitic drag that an OS monopoly has on the market as a whole for 20+ years, you could actually extract this very conclusion .... it is literally a drag on virtually every desktop PC (and the preponderance of laptops) in the world.

M$ has a desktop OS monopoly, Google has a monopoly on the mobile OS market and Apple has a monopoly on suck and fail.
 
The reason I even feel this ways is because I remember back in the 2000's when I first installed Linux and felt the joy of being able to change the look and feel of nearly everything and not have to restart it every day. This sense of joy was short-lived when I came to the realization that Linux wasn't compatible with fucking ANYTHING..... Then I move back to the Windows OS - it looks like shit by comparison and I have to restart it all the time, but my games and school shit worked on it so I had little choice as did most people..... hooray monopolies!


So yes, Microsoft has an unregulated monopoly on the desktop OS market and it has been this way for the longest time - any words to the contrary are pure delusion (including "just use Linux if you don't like it" - that was shot down long, long ago.. though technically today you can sort of effectively use Linux I guess - it's getting better).

Also, notice I did not include hardware advancements in my original post, only software - clear demagoguery with the "2080ti" and "flying cars" statement.

Finally, on the point of everything being Microsoft's fault, when you think of the insidious and parasitic drag that an OS monopoly has on the market as a whole for 20+ years, you could actually extract this very conclusion .... it is literally a drag on virtually every desktop PC (and the preponderance of laptops) in the world.

M$ has a desktop OS monopoly, Google has a monopoly on the mobile OS market and Apple has a monopoly on suck and fail.

I guess some of my feeler questions would be why do you need to restart so often? What's causing it? And why is a restart, that takes less than 1m such an issue?

I ask about why you need to restart because I run Windows 10 on my main PC. This PC runs BOINC (distributed computing) 24/7/365. It's also the machine I use to manage my other 11 machines via TV AND it's the one I watch videos from and browse on. It's also running my Plex server.

Haven't had to restart in about 3 months, and even then I didn't restart but the power went out. So I guess I always wonder what people could possibly be doing that forces them to restart so often that it becomes a burden.
 
I guess some of my feeler questions would be why do you need to restart so often? What's causing it? And why is a restart, that takes less than 1m such an issue?

I ask about why you need to restart because I run Windows 10 on my main PC. This PC runs BOINC (distributed computing) 24/7/365. It's also the machine I use to manage my other 11 machines via TV AND it's the one I watch videos from and browse on. It's also running my Plex server.

Haven't had to restart in about 3 months, and even then I didn't restart but the power went out. So I guess I always wonder what people could possibly be doing that forces them to restart so often that it becomes a burden.

your guess is as good as mine, i restart my computer about once every 5 months. but i guess he'll find any little thing he can that'll fit his agenda.
 
This includes USB thumb drives, USB-based external hard-drives, or SD cards inserted into card reader devices. Unless users are running Windows 10 from one of these devices --which is highly unlikely-- most users will be able to work around this issue.
 
This includes USB thumb drives, USB-based external hard-drives, or SD cards inserted into card reader devices. Unless users are running Windows 10 from one of these devices --which is highly unlikely-- most users will be able to work around this issue.

Surface Pro users usually have a card in the reader for extra storage, so there's that. PITA to remove once you've got the case on too.
 
Surface Pro users usually have a card in the reader for extra storage, so there's that. PITA to remove once you've got the case on too.

Yeah but, in this case, the block is a good thing and 1903 and on is no longer auto installed.
 
Yeah but, in this case, the block is a good thing and 1903 and on is no longer auto installed.

I guess my real issue in the end is the majority of comments in here are complaining about QA or the lack of it. Yet this was caught, before being released, by being tested in the Fast Ring portion of the beta download. Seems like QA is working fine!
 
I guess some of my feeler questions would be why do you need to restart so often? What's causing it? And why is a restart, that takes less than 1m such an issue?

I ask about why you need to restart because I run Windows 10 on my main PC. This PC runs BOINC (distributed computing) 24/7/365. It's also the machine I use to manage my other 11 machines via TV AND it's the one I watch videos from and browse on. It's also running my Plex server.

Haven't had to restart in about 3 months, and even then I didn't restart but the power went out. So I guess I always wonder what people could possibly be doing that forces them to restart so often that it becomes a burden.


Sorry I should have clarified. I had to restart so often on the Windows 98, 2000 and XP OS'es I used back in the 2000's
 
Do you ever say anything not necessarily negative, but realistic regarding the current situation considering Windows 10?

The OS could boot to a black screen (actually, there is a situation where it literally does just that) and you'd sit there and defend it, trying to convince people that booting to a black desktop where the only thing that works is task manager is actually a good thing.

Why should I be negative when it is not needed. Choose your battles when needed, pessimism is a waste of time. I only care about solutions, not wasting my time bashing when it is does not even accomplish anything useful.
 
Wow, yeah, good thing everything is Microsoft's fault. /s :rolleyes: Yep, we would have had 2080Ti's and flying cars in 2013 or earlier if it were not for Microsoft. /s

Edit: Oh, and I see that they found the problem and blocked the update before it screwed things up. In the meantime, unplugging the external usb drive or SD card and installing the update would work. In the meantime, they have time to fix it since the 1903 update is not mandatory anyways, but voluntary.
Yeah, everybody else is at fault except MS?

How are they supposed to know that having a usb drive or SD plugged in would do this? They have 0 QA so things like this will happen.
 
Yeah, everybody else is at fault except MS?

How are they supposed to know that having a usb drive or SD plugged in would do this? They have 0 QA so things like this will happen.

You are reading into something I never said. Also, the how is easy, the block explains this.
 
I guess my real issue in the end is the majority of comments in here are complaining about QA or the lack of it. Yet this was caught, before being released, by being tested in the Fast Ring portion of the beta download. Seems like QA is working fine!

Microsoft does not have a QA team for Windows. They fired the entire QA team before 10 came out. Their "QA" is using people willing to risk hosing their OS install on the "fast ring" to provide free testing and reporting.
 
Microsoft does not have a QA team for Windows. They fired the entire QA team before 10 came out. Their "QA" is using people willing to risk hosing their OS install on the "fast ring" to provide free testing and reporting.

I keep hearing this parroted but I have seen no straight up message from Microsoft that they fired their entire QA team. Proof please? And no, an article about it from some third party claiming it happened is not proof.

Note: I am very specific with my wording, you may notice the word entire in the above sentence.
 
I keep hearing this parroted but I have seen no straight up message from Microsoft that they fired their entire QA team. Proof please? And no, an article about it from some third party claiming it happened is not proof.

Note: I am very specific with my wording, you may notice the word entire in the above sentence.

Of course you haven't heard it straight from MS. Who would be stupid enough to announce "we got rid of our QA team"? But look at how MS has talked about Windows 10 testing, both to consumers and to businesses. They don't talk about internal QA, they don't talk about bug catching in-house, they talk about using "millions of users" to catch and report bugs.
 
Of course you haven't heard it straight from MS. Who would be stupid enough to announce "we got rid of our QA team"? But look at how MS has talked about Windows 10 testing, both to consumers and to businesses. They don't talk about internal QA, they don't talk about bug catching in-house, they talk about using "millions of users" to catch and report bugs.

You know what a QA team is, right? It's a team that tests new patches for problems. I think Microsoft was geniuses when they came out with the FR betas. Free up internal resources and at the same time get million of people to test VOLUNTARILY on countless different hardware setups.

Remember, voluntarily. No one HAD to sign up for the fast ring. They are doing the hard work while you cry and moan about an OS you likely don't even run.
 
Do you ever say anything not necessarily negative, but realistic regarding the current situation considering Windows 10?

The OS could boot to a black screen (actually, there is a situation where it literally does just that) and you'd sit there and defend it, trying to convince people that booting to a black desktop where the only thing that works is task manager is actually a good thing.

MoG defended that windows 10 should delete user software without asking or even informing.
 
Lol, this can't be true. Argue it isn't true, sure, but surely he didn't say it was ok...
Why should I be negative when it is not needed. Choose your battles when needed, pessimism is a waste of time. I only care about solutions, not wasting my time bashing when it is does not even accomplish anything useful.

Yes he did I'll find the thread against.
He literally acknowledge he believes it was better handled this way if MS/windows deemed your current software incompatible with an update, was to just delete it without asking or informing the user.

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just ran through the last 40 pages of thread history and haven't found it yet..
but i shall find it.... but not now lunch break is over
 
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You know what a QA team is, right? It's a team that tests new patches for problems. I think Microsoft was geniuses when they came out with the FR betas. Free up internal resources and at the same time get million of people to test VOLUNTARILY on countless different hardware setups.

Remember, voluntarily. No one HAD to sign up for the fast ring. They are doing the hard work while you cry and moan about an OS you likely don't even run.

Using it in addition to an internal-QA team would be a good idea. Using it instead of an internal team is a different story entirely. The ring update system has yet to prevent updates that hose people's Window's installs, break various features, break non-MS products, kill performance, etc. Outside of this one case (and this is still a bug that never should have even made it to the fast ring) it doesn't seem like their tiered update system has helped users very much.

I've been on Win10 since the later beta previews, by the way. I still get Windows Insider emails from when I was using Insider builds of 10.
 
Yes he did I'll find the thread against.
He literally acknowledge he believes it was better handled this way if MS/windows deemed your current software incompatible with an update, was to just delete it without asking or informing the user.
1 example
https://hardforum.com/threads/microsofts-telemetry-u-turn.1891078/page-2#post-1042137196
example 2
https://hardforum.com/threads/windows-just-works-and-other-os-improvements.1931981/#post-1042985580
ad nauseum
https://hardforum.com/threads/72-of...n-once-a-month.1933098/page-3#post-1042995831
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Of course you haven't heard it straight from MS. Who would be stupid enough to announce "we got rid of our QA team"? But look at how MS has talked about Windows 10 testing, both to consumers and to businesses. They don't talk about internal QA, they don't talk about bug catching in-house, they talk about using "millions of users" to catch and report bugs.

So, conjecture and opinion, got it.
 
At the time of the Windows 10 forced update deleting user files, the sentiment among the MS astroturfers was "lol your fault for not having backup".

Some people just like being contrarian online and keeping their heels dug in on a position even though they know it's indefensible. There's no denying MS has a long pattern of botched updates in the W10 era that is unprecedented...the service pack days didn't see the same level of untested crap coming down the update pipe. MS actually still respected their users pre Windows 10.

The misconception is that discussing and pointing out MS's failures to take more pride in Win10 is "hating Microsoft". No. Nobody rational wants to see Microsoft fail. All we want is for Windows to get better.

People that legitimately don't care about what happens with Windows arent sitting around discussing it.
 
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