Upgrade to WIndows 11 from Win 10Pro 22H2

Anonymous
2025-03-10T18:16:38+00:00

Overview: running Win10 pro in 16GB RAM on a Minisforum UM700 (just under 3 years old], AMD Ryzen Mobile 3750H. 256 GB SSD with 95 GB free...

Upgrade continually fails. My hardware is just fine (in spec}, I have 96GB of drive space,. I have spent 4 days on this, Tried the "Upgrade assisyant" - [Cryptic Installation failed message}, tried via newly d/l'd ISO [fails with error 0x8007007f], I have tried from a USB drive created in Media Creator [fails with cryptic message "Installation has failed" in a Windows system dialog box].

I have run SFC /SCANNOW and whatever the other recommended utility is to verify system integrity.

I have scoured the forums and worn out Google search - PLEASE someone help me! I thought MS wanted [nay are begging] us to upgrade, yet this is a nightmare. Thankfully I have started the process in plenty of time before the Day of Death in October. I see from the forums that I am far from alone in this problem, and yet, no clear resolution seems to be available,

I don't want to upgrade - my system in 10 is stable and I know where everything lives If I can't get resolution I shall be forced to finally go over to Linux and all the complications that would entail.

Insult to injury, MS are killing off Skype which has been the core of my comms forever.

I hope someone out there can solve this with clear concise instructions - no, I do not want to do a clean install: that is not what MS promised when they unleashed the mandatory upgrade on us.

Thanks in advance.

Noel

PS The upgrade install seems to fail when it tries to reboot at the end of the process, despite having "checked my system" at the outset....

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Ramesh 181.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2025-03-25T18:42:30+00:00

Glad to hear that, Noel.

Thank you for the update :)

// No clean boot (I did that once and it borked the machine to the point where I had to restore from Image] //

Clean boot is a very safe procedure. The problem happens mostly because the user forgets to enable the "Hide all Microsoft Services" checkbox before clicking the "Disable all" button.)

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  1. Ramesh 181.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2025-03-24T17:04:41+00:00

    Image

    Now, run these commands carefully.

    • *xcopy /h R:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD C:*
    • format R: /fs:FAT32 /q
    • bcdboot  C:\Windows /s R: /f UEFI

    Post the output.

    The above commands rebuild the BCD and boot files.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-03-24T16:48:41+00:00

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dS2UT8xp3lZ8QiGAgEzZdbTAwREusPs3/view?usp=sharing

    Here's the screen grab from the re-run of your routine. - Looks identical to the last one...

    I'm not sure where this line of enquiry is heading, but happy to follow along as long as it's all non-destructive! Hopefully someone will come up with a "do this" solution, so I don't have to go through the 2 hours of watching the grey bar to no effect again.

    Someone out there must have a solution = please??

    Thanks for your continued help

    Noel

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  3. Ramesh 181.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2025-03-24T01:59:26+00:00

    Here's the link...

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aH-mfDUUisTSsvbO5VK3kUKYtwPvEj4c/view?usp=sharing

    Since you rebooted the system and tried the in-place upgrade again, please redo the steps I posted to assign drive letter R for the EFI partition. Post fresh output.

    We need to run some more commands in the same WinRE session.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-03-23T18:41:01+00:00

    Yet another two hours out of my life, watching a metaphorical grey bar - failed again, with just a terse "Upgrade failed" message as the install tried to reboot..

    Here is a link to my Goodrive in a folder containing all the error files generated by the upgrade process initiated, as suggested, from the ISO downloaded two days ago.

    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kqsC9ZhQDop9EZAPFgy6c2SwSksJIWMd?usp=sharing

    I do hope someone (Microsoft???} out there can come up with a solution so I can get on with my real life!

    Thanks for all your suggestions

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