"Couldn't update to Windows 8.1 - 0xC1900101 - 0x40017"

I finally successfully updated to 8.1 after >10 tries.

My case 0x40017 error everytime

windows 8 laptop, MSI GT70 with NVIDIA 680M and intel HD 4000, bigfoot killer GigE network

I tried all the suggestions I can find on the web, update graphic cards to the newest, remove the cards before install and without reboot, disable device, disable antivirus.  No luck. Then I found the problem is with the driver of the bigfoot network card.

There is a new beta driver released for 8.1, I installed it, still not working.

In the last try, I removed all graphic card drivers (intel and nvidia) and the related software,  before reboot, I start upgrade windows 8.1, as soon as the system finished downloading from windows store and in the 'gather info' stage, I quickly removed the entire software and driver for network ( I can't do this before upgrade cuz I need it to connect to windows store), and the rest of upgrade went through without any issue.

Hope this can help some of you guys.

I've gotten the same error code twice on trying to install Win 8.1

0xC1900101 0x40017

Self Built PC

i5 3570K

Gigabyte G1.Sniper 3

Nvidia GTX 570

Samsung 840 Pro SSD

Tried both methods. Drivers are all the most recent versions from the manufacturer unless Windows Update found newer.

The antivirus I'm running is GData Antivirus 2014.

Last night I was working with a lady from the Microsoft support team.

We tried the following,

uninstalled McAfee

unplugged all external devices but a keyboard and mouse.  Heck, even my second monitor that uses HDMI

ran a disk check

created a new Admin account to update with

all of these failed at 100% when applying computer settings.

At this point, this issue has been escalated to Microsoft level 2 support.  I'll have an update on Monday.

Count me in as another one extremely frustrated by this whole mess.  I have to stop sometimes and be thankful that at the very least, every fail takes me back to the perfectly working 8.0 install I already have.  In the meantime, I've tried most of the suggestions in this thread to no avail.  For those of you who haven't been so brave to do so, I've gone so far as to nuke my 8.0 install and start again fresh.  This involved allowing the software to reinstall, perform the initial Windows Updates so the upgrade ill appear in the store, and then attempting to upgrade without adding any of my applications, tools or the like; just the vanilla Microsoft stuff.  This still failed.  Like some of you, I had the 8.1 Preview install just fine on a separate partition.  I removed it after it being quite buggy on my machine.  Anyways, I've taken to heart suggestions made here: one suggested to remove a recent security update, which my machine didn't even have; another posted a link to an MS site with device drivers, only for me to download the driver and device manager not even recognize them as new.  I've gotten 0x40017, 0x40018, and 0x40019 at different times attempting to upgrade.  At this point, I'm done trying.  I'm thankful enough to have a working 8.0 install (and think, some people are still running XP happily).  If another suggestion comes along that seems feasible I may be compelled to try again, but I near convinced I won't see 8.1 until I get a new machine.

Specs

Computer: HP Pavilion dv7-4077cl (purchased in 2010)

Processor: Intel Core i3

Graphics: AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5470 + Intel 3000 (switchable graphics; only the Intel card works on my machine, can't even get the AMD card to turn on, which ironically works for me as the AMD card was the source of trouble when I upgraded from 7 to 8.)

Only one more suggestion that could be off here... Many complained that the video drivers were replaced or not installed correctly in 8.1.  You could try reinstalling them.  Long shot, but it's something?