Failed Upgrade from Win 7 to Win 10

Anonymous
2024-12-17T18:00:46+00:00

I am attempting to do an in-place upgrade from Win 7 Pro to Win 10 Pro. I used the Media Creation Tool to create a bootable USB. It goes through the process, then around 79% it jumps to "your PC will restart in a few moments" then without restarting it returns to my Win 7 desktop and has a gray box that says "Windows 10 installation has failed"

Things I have done to try and resolve, primarily from suggestions found in MS Forums and Tenforums for other people that had the same problem: 

\*Uninstalled MSE and SuperAntiSpyware 

\*Disable Malwarebytes before each attempt 

\*Run Setup.exe as administrator 

\*run SFC /scannow and CHKDSK /f both returned no errors 

\*Regedit to delete entries to fix Win Update Service, then installed new updates that resulted after that, except MSE 

\*CleanBoot prior to install 

\*Tried both with and without checking for updates selected during install.

All attempts result exactly the same way. Thanks in advance for help!

I tried to paste the setuperr.log but it's too many characters

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Install and upgrade

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-12-19T22:56:44+00:00

    Success!!!

    Thank you for all the help and patience!

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-12-19T22:43:44+00:00

    Making progress. I found a different Win 7 disk that initiated startup repair. Now it looks like it is Installing 10. It has restarted twice while installing, but so far keeps going.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-12-19T15:40:18+00:00

    Same result

    The store export operation has failed. The requested system device cannot be found.

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  4. Ivan B 124.7K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2024-12-19T05:31:40+00:00

    Hi ,

    In this case you will replace bcdedit /export e:\bcdbackup and run the command again.

    Independent Advisor - Community

    Thanks

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-12-19T02:47:55+00:00

    In this listing it shows my OS drive as D: and my Data drive as C: which is backwards. It lists the USB as E:, dvd as F: and Boot as X

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