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. Anonymous
    2025-03-25T18:41:01+00:00

    Hallelujah, Ramesh!!!

    Thanks to your PE BCD rebuild routine, I successfully upgraded to Win 11.

    No BIOS update.

    Antivirus off. (Don't know if that mattered]

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

    You might want to save that PE entire command set in a text file, with drive letter change caveats. I could have been done had it not been for the gaps in our communications through the Forum...

    Now try and get 11 to look like I like it and to figure where every control has moved to.

    Thanks so much for your patience and ultimately successful help.

    Noel

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  2. Ramesh 181.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2025-03-25T16:11:55+00:00

    OK, Ramesh, I am confident that the drive letters are correct (the system boots, just fine, but should I run the whole PE routine again just to be sure, or might that open more cans or worms?

    IMO, you can run them again and post the output. No harm in rerunning those steps.

    But if you're confident that the format and the bcdboot commands gave successful output, you may try the in-place upgrade after doing the following:

    1. Enable Memory Integrity. To enable memory integrity in Windows, go to Windows Security > Device security > Core isolation details > Memory integrity. If it shows any incompatible drivers, post the screenshot here.
    2. Clean boot. A clean boot is the process of starting Windows without loading third-party apps and services. Please see this Microsoft article for more information.

    How to perform a clean boot in Windows - Microsoft Support:

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows-da2f9573-6eec-00ad-2f8a-a97a1807f3dd

    (Step 3 is very important. You need to first enable "Hide all Microsoft Services" before clicking "Disable all".)

    1. Uninstall Malwarebytes.

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