My system has had several shots at the upgrade today, all unsuccessful. The attached screenshots show the errors (80240020 and C1900208).
The Windows 10 upgrade file ($Windows~BT) is present on my C drive SSD, and there is about 170GB space available. There is an executable in the upgrade.
Is this normal behaviour in the Windows 10 upgrade process? I have had the 'Restart' flag appear in the 'shut down' button on a number of occassions however each shutdown has been to no avail.
Is there a problem or should I be a bit more patient?
During one of my calls earlier they basically said that they are swamped today. However I'm not sure what the problem is for certain. All I know is for me to get the upgrade to go through I had to go down and buy a brand new jump drive (cause the upgrade seems to hate san disk) and use the media creation tool to make a usb boot drive for my computer. I think this seems to be the all around fix for alot of problems with getting windows 10 up and running.
Did you ever get to the setup screen? Where in the process did it stop? You should have had a smooth ride from the setup screen in your previous OS to Windows 10 desktop screen.
No.
the installation never actually started in spite of the repeated restarts.
If I click on the .exe file in the download file, setup starts but I haven't let it continue.
I keep getting the exclamation point in the 'shut down' button, about 10 times today, but shutting down or restarting achieves nothing. Windows Update tells me there are no updates available.
However, the $Windows~BT file is in my C drive. Should I just run the .exe? Would that allow me to keep all my files and settings?
Some reading told me that the 80240020 error meant that the original Windows 7 media (disc) was absent, so I popped the disc in the drive. I then cleared the Update folder then ran the wuauclt.exe/updatenow command.
Windows 10 started to download, got to 100% then failed with a 80200053 error.
Tried again, this time it downloaded 100% then got to Preparing for Installation and the progress bar got to about 35% when I got a warning that the PC needed some attention, which I allowed. It then tried to istal 5 updates which all failed with a 80070103 error which I believe means that the updates are already in the PC.
So after a couple of promising hours, I'm back where I was!
So I then went to download the Media Creation Tool, intending to save the image to a 64GB USB stick and install it later. Got to 100% download and verification started, then suddenly I'm presented with 'Something Happened' and everything stopped.
Just got 100% complete on the download. I did not force anything, I let MS servers decide to send me the upgrade when MS was ready for me. Checked the BT~ file was there and it is. However noticed that the GW10 icon was indicating that the upgrade would be sent to me soon and today I got an email saying that it will not be long before I get the upgrade, so I opened windows update and there it was ... C1900208 Windows 10 Pro failed. So MS does not even know they sent it to me already? WSUS does not know it failed?
There is no MS description for the error code. So there is no cause and no fix.
It is rather strange that most of the errors that are being thrown have no explanation, and when I clicked on the links that are in the MS email I received, all of them gave the 'sorry, what you are looking for does not exist' page.
All seems very flakey. I know there are millions of PCs, all with different configurations, but surely MS must have also figured that themselves.
Rob.
I'm wondering if they name it that until after the 30 day grace period, then your product key is tied to that version and it officially becomes the full version.
During the 30 day period it seems it has a generic product key, this allows you to revert back to your previous O.S.
I think I'll just sit on my hands for a few days, I'm a little concerned at the flakey behaviour surrounding the Windows Update process.
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