While most of the users have witnessed a seamless experience during the Windows 10 upgrade process, some are facing Windows 10 installation or upgrade errors. For some, Windows 10 upgrade has failed! Microsoft has already come up with a list of errors which one might encounter during the upgrade process and how you could go about fixing Windows 10 installation or upgrade errors which you may face. The common among them are Something Happened and Error code 80240020.
Windows 10 Installation & Installation Errors
The Windows 10 upgrade errors is generally accompanied with an error code which you can use it as reference to troubleshoot and fix. When you get errors during the upgrade process, just copy the error message along with the error code.
The following are the list of common upgrade or installation errors along with solutions to fix problems.
Something Happened
This is a pretty intriguing error message which does not much more really. But to resolve this, do the following.
Open Control Panel > Clock > Language > Region > Administrative tab > Change System Locale button and set it toEnglish (US). Restart your computer. Try again.
If this does not work, use the Windows 10 Media Tool to create a bootable USB, and then install it.
Error Code 0x80073712
0x80073712 error occurs when the file needed by Windows 10 is missing or corrupted.
Error Code 0x800F0923
The above error fires up whenever the driver or software on your computer is not compatible with Windows 10 upgrade. The best way to fix this issue is by contacting Microsoft support.
Error Code 0x80200056
The error occurs if you had accidentally restarted your PC or signed out of computer causing an interruption to the upgrade process. In this case, you might want to start over and complete the upgradation process. Remember to turn on your PC and make sure it is plugged in to avoid interruption.
Code 0x800F0922
The above error essentially means your computer couldn’t connect to Windows Update servers. This might be because you are on a VPN connection to connect to a work network. To continue Windows 10 Upgrade smoothly disconnect yourself from any VPN network and turn off the VPN software temporarily and try upgrading again.
Error: We couldn’t complete the updates. Undoing changes. Don’t turn off your computer
This is a generic error message which pops up on your screen whenever your Windows 10 upgrade failed. Try to get the specific error code, with which you could further investigate and resolve the problem.
Error: Failure configuring Windows Updates. Reverting changes.
In order to trace the error code for the failed update, view your update history and spot the updates that were not installed and note down the error code which you could use it to contact Microsoft support.
Steps to view update history on Windows 8.1 :
- Using the charms bar by swiping, find the “Settings” option and then choose “Change PC settings” and then click on “Update and recovery”.
- Choose “View your update history”
Steps to view update history on Windows 7 :
- Open the search box by clicking on Start button. In the search box, type “Update”, choose “Windows Update” in the list of results.
- Select “View update history”.
Error: The update isn’t applicable to your computer.
The above error message occurs when your PC doesn’t have required updates installed. Before you start the Windows 10 upgrade process make sure that all other important updates are installed first.
Error Code 0xC1900208 – 0x4000C
The error shows up when an incompatible application is installed on your PC which is blocking the upgrade process from getting completed. Do a thorough check that any incompatible apps are uninstalled and then try upgrading your PC.
Error Code 80240020
Says Microsoft: This is an expected error message if the upgrade requires customer user action. For example, the message may be present if one or more applications or disk utilities that need to be uninstalled before upgrading. PCs seeing this error message will get instructions on how to fix this when they perform the upgrade. We recommend waiting until your PC receives a notification to upgrade and then following the instructions provided.
To resolve this issue, open C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download and delete the contents of the folder.
You may also open an elevated CMD and run Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth to repair system image.
Next, open the Win+X menu and click Command Prompt (Admin). In the elevated command prompt window, typewuauclt.exe /update now and hit Enter.
If this does not help, open regedit and navigate to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate
Now in left pane, right-click WindowsUpdate and create a new key here and name it OSUpgrade. Next in the left pane, right-click in an empty area and create a new DWORD called AllowOSUpgrade and give it value 1.
Error Code 0xC1900200 – 0x20008, Error Code 0xC1900202 – 0x20008
It is possible that your existing PC doesn’t meet the minimum requirements to download or install the Windows 10 upgrade. Check the minimum system requirements for Windows 10 upgrade.
Error Code 0x80070070 – 0x50011, 0x80070070 – 0x50012, 0x80070070 – 0x60000
The above error suggests that your PC has run out of space. There is no enough space available to install the Windows 10 upgrade. To continue, free some space on the drive and start over.
Modern Setup Host has stopped working
One of the problems some users are reporting on Microsoft Answers & Reddit, is that they have encountered a Modern Setup Host has stopped working error while upgrading to Windows 10, using the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool. While Microsoft has not responded with a proper fix, scanning through Answers & Reddit, threw up several ideas that could work. See if any of them work for you.
Modern Setup Host or SetupHost.exe is is a self-extracting archive and installer, located in C:\$Windows.~BT\Sources\folder, which runs as a scheduled task every time a user logs in, to execute a process with the local user’s privileges within the context of its parent windowsstoresetupbox.exe. It is required when you are running the setup to upgrade your PC to Windows 10. If it fails for some reason, you see this error and the upgrade process aborts.
A few precautions you could take first. If you have installed any 3rd party antivirus or firewall sofware, disable it. Disconnect all the unnecessary external devices connected to the computer. Some are reporting that a Low Disk Space can cause this problem. So ensure you have sufficient Disk Space of at least 20GB. Having done this, go through the list and see what could suit your system the best.
1] Perform a Clean Boot and see if you are now able to carry out the installation.
2] Others have said that changing Language helped. So change Language to English (United States) and set a match Windows display language, including System Locale to English (United States). See if this works for you.
3] From the WinX Menu, select Run. Type the following path and hit Enter:
C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download
Now Select all the contents and delete everything in this folder.
Next, from the WiX Menu, click on Command Prompt (Admin), type the following command and hit Enter:
wuauclt.exe /updatenow
Restart your computer and start the upgrade process again.
4] Ben Wil has suggested the following solution. Download and run the Windows 10 Media Creation tool. Let it download and verify the download. Once this process is completed, close the tool and pressWinKey+R to open the Run box.
Paste this path and hit Enter:
C:\$Windows.~WS\Sources\Windows\sources\setupprep.exe
Your installation should begin and the upgrade should complete successfully.
Please do let us know if anything here helps you. Have a Nice Day...
Source: Microsoft. Additional information: Microsoft Answers.
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