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EDIT: Turns out that it wasn't just W10 that caused it. Adobe Flash/Reader/etc also does the same thing if the update fails, for some reason it can't tell the difference between a failed download and a partial causing the thing to try again each and every time the machine is restarted.
Another culprit is Windows Defender, this is well known for being a bandwidth hog. 61MB used in 1 hour just doing a routine update.
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Might be RAM. I've run into flaky sticks which reliably break W7 update, sometimes x32 will work but x64 won't. In my case I started with a clean 100% zeroed HDD which had passed all the tests including the manufacturers integrity check and it still broke.
Still suspect something isn't right but worth checking, note that it worked perfectly with that stick on that machine then only failed when running at a lower speed (!!!!) on an old dinosaur kept just for memory and CPU tests.
Some machines with bad RAM also flag up a "disk read" error on boot with a known good and clean HDD, this fooled me once only. Grr.
Yet ANOTHER one is defective network cards, WiFi card if present and webcams. Had a reliably dead system (wouldn't even run liveboot) that lived again once this part, a Chicony camera from an AOA110 removed and Widlarized. And the strangest thing is, one fail can cause others though they can't be related right? EDIT: I've had a strange phone call suggesting that they can, also suspect X-ray flash from lightning could have damaged the chips on said hardware as there are clear differences between supposedly identical modules made at the same time.
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Lovely free windows 10, but does it ever install?
