Windows 10: Activation and Win 10 Update errors

I upgraded Win 7 Home premiumOEM to Win 10 Home using the free upgrade over a year ago and have had no issues. Then the product key was accepted. Now I am asked to activate windows but neither the Win 7 or 10 product keys work. The activation screen sometimes lists the product Id and sometimes not, no product key found. I get the message " something interrupted our troubleshooting & error code 0x8004005. I have disabled av, firewall and antimalware and other running programs, retried to no avail. Also being told am running unlicensed copy of Windows and to go buy one.

I have received these other error codes:-

0x8000ffff -update error and this did seem to all start when security updateKB4586864 installed 28/12/2020. All updates have failed to install since then. I note that there is an update for Adobe flash Player included, but I uninstalled Flash Player in October 20. Still trying to give me that now.

Have run DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth, and sfc /scannow and laptop is no longer in snailmode, but not quite normal. Still no activation got DISM error 0x800f081f - Source files not found. Use Source option to specify files required to restore feature. Go to https://go.microsoft.com/fastlink/?LinkId=243077 which gets me "404 page not found" when searched.

Sfc /scannow gets to 100% verification. Is it supposed to do more afterwyou can give me ards?

0xc004f012 - token.dat. tried to fix this but don't know if this worked.


Win resource protection unable to fix some corrupt files. Have looked through CBS log file but don't know what I'm looking for, - online, or offline repairs provided by /OFFLOGFILE flag.


Would appreciate any help. Thanks

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Error Message when updating from Win-7 to Won-10

Bree
I followed your suggestions (2nd Aug 19) for installing Win-10. Made the bootable flash drive successfully through the media creation tool. But when I attempted to upgrade and activate to Win-10 (64 bit) from within Win-7 (Pro-32 bit), I got the following error message:

Error # OxC1900101-Ox20017. " The installation failed in the SAFE_OS phase with an error during BOOT operation"

I read the diagnostics under this error number and carried out the proposed fixes, i.e. update Win-7, uninstall Malwarebyte antivirus, disconnect all external hardware, e.g. printer, scanner, external hard drives. I then tried to repeat the steps to do the upgrade through the Win-10 bootable flash drive as before. Got the same error message.
Appreciate any further comments and suggestions as to (a) what does a failure in the SAFE_OS during boot operation mean, (b) what can I do to solve it. Is this anything to do with the hardware in my computer? I listed these in my first posting above.
Thanks for any help

 

Windows 10 wont update

Have you tried the second step?

(Searching for the error message e.g.

windows update database corrupt

is also a useful approach- e.g. finds
Win 10 Update Database Corruption Solved - Windows 10 Forums
- where the next step is the one I suggested above).

 

Windows 10 will not activate Error code 0x803F7001

Possibly there can be the problem with Microsoft activation Server, so your Windows 10 is not activated. In this scenario, you need to wait and verify if it is the issue from Microsoft’s side. But if you are getting error code 0x803f7001, you can also try these steps:

1. Open Settings app. Then go to Update and security > Activation screen > Change product.
2. Type your Windows edition product key and click Next.
3. You’ll get We couldn’t activate Windows error message.
4. Retry steps 1-3 then type your 25-characters unique product key.
5. Wait for the process to complete, Windows 10 is activated.

Hope something helps this problem