PaulB wrote:Sorry to hear of your problems, Bob. I'm a little late responding as I just had my Internet (and phone) service restored last night after a 5 day outage.
Now, that would give one a great deal of concern! As a retiree, I would have to find other things to keep me busy, like preparing the garden for winter... NOT!
I'm perplexed by your issues. It sounds like you did everything right. Maybe Viking Bob's suggestions will help.
I sure hope so as I really want to toy with Win10TP.
Personally, I used only native MS tools (Disk Management, MSCONFIG for boot loader management etc.) to set up the dual boot environment. The only thought I had (based on your description) is that the timeout value is so low that you may not have seen the selection menu. Bit of a stretch, I know.
During the various restarts associated with the installing of the builds and updates, I was never once given the DB menu option. And, I watched closely. It is my understanding that the default is something like 3 seconds and I kept my hand on the mouse waiting for the pop-up.
How does one get Build 9860? Through Windows Update? Or is it downloaded separately?
Two ways... Keep your Win10TP environment turned on during the appropriate update time. Or, force an update. The update is NOT available through the normal Windows Update process. Call up PC Settings, go into Update and Recovery and you will see the item for getting the new build. Be prepared for a long download time as it is a complete new file over 2GB in size. Takes as long as the original 9841 download. And, it is not available as a separate ISO download. In my case, it took about 1.25 hours to download and install. And, I have a 50Mbps DL line.
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All that effort and the dual boot bombs out... On the bright side, you have certainly gained some experience and I'm sure it will come in handy with actions or choices further down the line...