Windows 10 Install Failed

[HereComeTheBees]

I have Windows 7 Pro and am trying to upgrade to Windows 10.

ΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞ

Short story; I have tried every advertised way to install Windows 10 and through all the different methods, I am, at some point greeted with an error and they don't really seem to add up in the end.

Long story; I started by making sure there was enough hard drive space available for the upgrade and there was 105 gigabytes free, I proceeded by attempting to use everybody's favorite Windows 10 upgrade notification box that lives in the taskbar(whilst on Windows 7)and everything went pretty smoothly there until the computer needed to reboot. After the reboot it failed the upgrade repeatedly(about 6 times)so I decided I should check for programs that may be installed that could somehow be conflicting. After the removal of many things nothing changed and I tried to install off of a USB using Microsoft Media Creation Tool, and this also was a failure but gave me a completely different error report. Spending some time browsing forums I found other folk having the same problem, except their solution was to unplug all their external devices that weren't  vital for operation, and when I preformed this tip it didn't help whatsoever. My next action was trying the USB method of install again but this time not as an upgrade but as a clean install. I completely wiped my OS drive and gave Windows 10 the go ahead to take it for itself... But somehow it managed to find something to complain about and gave me another new error. I retried this many times, same outcome. Then I reinstalled Windows 7 and started setting it up for basic and minimal operation, then initiated windows updates. I'd say about 90% of those updates failed(most of them labeled as Important) then the Windows 10 upgrade notification never came up even after being "up to date" according to Windows Update. So I went back to the USB method, deleted Windows 7, removed my sound card, wifi adapter and 8 gigabytes of RAM with no change at all. Even tried using the ISO option and burning that to my flash-drive but then it wouldn't even run at all. So that's where it sits, no OS installed and me pretty frustrated after 48 hours of this.

ΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞ

Some of the error codes I took the time to write down:

• "0x8007025D-0x2000C The installation failed in the SAFE_OS phase with an error during APPLY_IMAGE operation"
• Sometimes just "Windows cannot install required files"
• "Windows could not configure one or more components".

ΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞ

System Parts List:

• CPU; AMD FX-8350 @4Ghz
• RAM;16 Gigabytes of Kingston Savage DDR3 @1600mhz and 8 Gigabytes of Gskill DDR3 @1600mhz
• GPU; ASUS Geforce Nvidia GTX 680 2GVM
• Mobo; Asrock 870 Extreme3 r2 
• Soundcard; Asus Xonar 5.1
• Wifi Card; Asus PCE-AC66 PCI Express
• PSU; Corsair 850 watt gold rated

ΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞ

 If anyone has any ideas on what I am doing wrong or if you ran into this problem yourself and you know what to do please let me know

   -Aaron

[Enderman]

are you sure you correctly loaded windows 10 to the USB drive?

using this tool?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10

[Skiiwee29]

8 minutes ago, HereComeTheBees said:

I have Windows 7 Pro and am trying to upgrade to Windows 10.

ΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞ

Short story; I have tried every advertised way to install Windows 10 and through all the different methods, I am, at some point greeted with an error and they don't really seem to add up in the end.

Long story; I started by making sure there was enough hard drive space available for the upgrade and there was 105 gigabytes free, I proceeded by attempting to use everybody's favorite Windows 10 upgrade notification box that lives in the taskbar(whilst on Windows 7)and everything went pretty smoothly there until the computer needed to reboot. After the reboot it failed the upgrade repeatedly(about 6 times)so I decided I should check for programs that may be installed that could somehow be conflicting. After the removal of many things nothing changed and I tried to install off of a USB using Microsoft Media Creation Tool, and this also was a failure but gave me a completely different error report. Spending some time browsing forums I found other folk having the same problem, except their solution was to unplug all their external devices that weren't  vital for operation, and when I preformed this tip it didn't help whatsoever. My next action was trying the USB method of install again but this time not as an upgrade but as a clean install. I completely wiped my OS drive and gave Windows 10 the go ahead to take it for itself... But somehow it managed to find something to complain about and gave me another new error. I retried this many times, same outcome. Then I reinstalled Windows 7 and started setting it up for basic and minimal operation, then initiated windows updates. I'd say about 90% of those updates failed(most of them labeled as Important) then the Windows 10 upgrade notification never came up even after being "up to date" according to Windows Update. So I went back to the USB method, deleted Windows 7, removed my sound card, wifi adapter and 8 gigabytes of RAM with no change at all. Even tried using the ISO option and burning that to my flash-drive but then it wouldn't even run at all. So that's where it sits, no OS installed and me pretty frustrated after 48 hours of this.

ΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞ

Some of the error codes I took the time to write down:

• "0x8007025D-0x2000C The installation failed in the SAFE_OS phase with an error during APPLY_IMAGE operation"
• Sometimes just "Windows cannot install required files"
• "Windows could not configure one or more components".

ΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞ

System Parts List:

• CPU; AMD FX-8350 @4Ghz
• RAM;16 Gigabytes of Kingston Savage DDR3 @1600mhz and 8 Gigabytes of Gskill DDR3 @1600mhz
• GPU; ASUS Geforce Nvidia GTX 680 2GVM
• Mobo; Asrock 870 Extreme3 r2 
• Soundcard; Asus Xonar 5.1
• Wifi Card; Asus PCE-AC66 PCI Express
• PSU; Corsair 850 watt gold rated

ΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞ

 If anyone has any ideas on what I am doing wrong or if you ran into this problem yourself and you know what to do please let me know

   -Aaron

Run a checkdisk on your drive. Sounds like maybe your drive is bad or the partition. What type of drive do you have? You dont have it listed in your notes. If you have 1 drive and its partitioned, you will need to wipe all the partitions. 

[HereComeTheBees]

3 minutes ago, Enderman said:

are you sure you correctly loaded windows 10 to the USB drive?

using this tool?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10

Yes I used that tool and downloaded it along with windows 10 multiple time on my desktop and laptop.

[Enderman]

4 minutes ago, HereComeTheBees said:

Yes I used that tool and downloaded it along with windows 10 multiple time on my desktop and laptop.

can you check your drive with crystaldiskinfo

and how many drives do you have? did you unplug all except one while installing?

[HereComeTheBees]

4 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

Run a checkdisk on your drive. Sounds like maybe your drive is bad or the partition. What type of drive do you have? You dont have it listed in your notes. If you have 1 drive and its partitioned, you will need to wipe all the partitions. 

I ran a sfc scan at one point to see if windows was corrupted but it came up false. I did not check the disk but right now it has no os on it and I deleted the partition windows 7 and 10 made. Should I reinstall windows 7 and check the disk?

HDD: It's a seagate 1024gb and I know they have a bad rep yet i don't believe shes given up just yet.

[HereComeTheBees]

4 minutes ago, Enderman said:

can you check your drive with crystaldiskinfo

and how many drives do you have? did you unplug all except one while installing?

I have 5 Hard Drives of varying size, I unplugged them all except for the seagate 1024gb

[HereComeTheBees]

Just ended up making about 4 more attempts and it finally worked. Guess it's just really sensitive.

[JefferyD90]

On ‎7‎/‎3‎/‎2016 at 8:51 PM, HereComeTheBees said:

I have Windows 7 Pro and am trying to upgrade to Windows 10.

ΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞ

Short story; I have tried every advertised way to install Windows 10 and through all the different methods, I am, at some point greeted with an error and they don't really seem to add up in the end.

Long story; I started by making sure there was enough hard drive space available for the upgrade and there was 105 gigabytes free, I proceeded by attempting to use everybody's favorite Windows 10 upgrade notification box that lives in the taskbar(whilst on Windows 7)and everything went pretty smoothly there until the computer needed to reboot. After the reboot it failed the upgrade repeatedly(about 6 times)so I decided I should check for programs that may be installed that could somehow be conflicting. After the removal of many things nothing changed and I tried to install off of a USB using Microsoft Media Creation Tool, and this also was a failure but gave me a completely different error report. Spending some time browsing forums I found other folk having the same problem, except their solution was to unplug all their external devices that weren't  vital for operation, and when I preformed this tip it didn't help whatsoever. My next action was trying the USB method of install again but this time not as an upgrade but as a clean install. I completely wiped my OS drive and gave Windows 10 the go ahead to take it for itself... But somehow it managed to find something to complain about and gave me another new error. I retried this many times, same outcome. Then I reinstalled Windows 7 and started setting it up for basic and minimal operation, then initiated windows updates. I'd say about 90% of those updates failed(most of them labeled as Important) then the Windows 10 upgrade notification never came up even after being "up to date" according to Windows Update. So I went back to the USB method, deleted Windows 7, removed my sound card, wifi adapter and 8 gigabytes of RAM with no change at all. Even tried using the ISO option and burning that to my flash-drive but then it wouldn't even run at all. So that's where it sits, no OS installed and me pretty frustrated after 48 hours of this.

ΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞ

Some of the error codes I took the time to write down:

• "0x8007025D-0x2000C The installation failed in the SAFE_OS phase with an error during APPLY_IMAGE operation"
• Sometimes just "Windows cannot install required files"
• "Windows could not configure one or more components".

ΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞ

System Parts List:

• CPU; AMD FX-8350 @4Ghz
• RAM;16 Gigabytes of Kingston Savage DDR3 @1600mhz and 8 Gigabytes of Gskill DDR3 @1600mhz
• GPU; ASUS Geforce Nvidia GTX 680 2GVM
• Mobo; Asrock 870 Extreme3 r2 
• Soundcard; Asus Xonar 5.1
• Wifi Card; Asus PCE-AC66 PCI Express
• PSU; Corsair 850 watt gold rated

ΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞΞ

 If anyone has any ideas on what I am doing wrong or if you ran into this problem yourself and you know what to do please let me know

   -Aaron

Next time follow the guide in my signature.  You'll be much happier.  (BTW your motherboard doesn't support Windows 10.)

[HereComeTheBees]

2 minutes ago, JefferyD90 said:

Next time follow the guide in my signature.  You'll be much happier.  (BTW your motherboard doesn't support Windows 10.)

The Windows 7 programs and drivers from asrock still work for my mobo on Windows 10 so ill stick with those, Besides I cant put anything new in it anyway. And thanks I'll check that out if I need to reinstall.

[JefferyD90]

3 hours ago, HereComeTheBees said:

The Windows 7 programs and drivers from asrock still work for my mobo on Windows 10 so ill stick with those, Besides I cant put anything new in it anyway. And thanks I'll check that out if I need to reinstall.

9/10 Windows Vista and up drivers will work with JUST the OS.  The difference starts happening when newer programs try to interact with the OS in a manner the driver doesn't like.  Although, you might never use these programs.  Just wanted you to know about the potential issue.