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I have downloaded the Windows 8.1 update from the store but cannot get it to install. Each time I try, I get to the point where it is "getting my devices ready", then the PC restarts to a blue screen with error message. It then tries to recover the installation, fails, then restores Windows 8. When the system boots up after this, I get a message saying:
"Couldn't update to Windows 8.1
Sorry, we couldn't complete the update to Windows 8.1. We've restored your previous version of Windows to this PC.
0xC1900101 - 0x40017"
There is n o explanation as to why the update could be completed. Any ideas how to resolve this?
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Getting sick and tired of trying to update to 8.1, done everything i could find on this problem, to no avail.
Working from the desktop, i recently got a screen-wide message telling me to update to 8.1, also to no avail.
Guess i'll just have to wait until Microsoft gets their sh*t together... until then, good luck to all with this.
we can only hope for the first update of 8.1 which is coming very soon, if that doesn't work, i dont know what to deal with it.
Getting sick and tired of trying to update to 8.1, done everything i could find on this problem, to no avail.
Working from the desktop, i recently got a screen-wide message telling me to update to 8.1, also to no avail.
Guess i'll just have to wait until Microsoft gets their sh*t together... until then, good luck to all with this.
I had received a range of errors from 0xC19... 0x400.. to 0x80...
It was hanging at various times (at 25% installation) at 63% during the installation etc.
It was failing after the end of the download and while extracting the install.win archive it appears... the same error was happening while trying to install windows server 2012 R2.
There are many threads that deal with this issue, I chose to write in this one. I may repost in another few threads I had visited while I had the issue.
That was my case though, it is not sure that it will be yours... it just a thing to explore.
I still don't know why the upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8 worked fine and then while on Windows 8 the upgrade to 8.1 start having problems. Either the memory got corrupted during the transition or the Windows 8 manage the (corrupted) memory in a completely different way than Windows 7.
I couldn't test the upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8 again because, somehow, the downloader of windows 8 stopped working in my case (it was giving an error that it cannot connect on the Internet).
I hope this helps.
It sounds crazy to me clear my computer CFG and configure everything again. :(
Congratulations,
But it is not a solaution problem for 0x20017 :(
My memory seems to be OK, I faced that the problem is that the Upgrade is not able to boot.
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