Windows 10: Can't upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10. Getting 800704B8 3001A

I've successfully upgraded two other windows 7 computers for our thrift stores. This third one is proving to be a challenge. I've tried installing from media creation tool twice, also from a USB. I've removed all antivirus programs. I've tried updating twice while in clean boot mode. Still having no luck. I'm sure there's an answer but I can't seem to find it. Any help would be appreciated.

Ben





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Windows 10 upgrade problem, no input accepted

I really hate having to come here and ask for help, but I really am stumped. It hurts my geek pride. I have a PC with fairly modern hardware in it. It has a p8p67 pro in it. I have tried upgrading windows 10 on it twice now. Both times I have had the same result.

After windows finishes upgrading it goes to the log in/set up screen. I can't do anything. No keyboard or mouse input is accepted.

I will list some, or hopefully all, of the troubleshooting steps I have tried:

• Move keyboard and mouse to different USB ports.
• Try different keyboard or mouse.
• Restart computer, repeatedly.
• Google for related issues.
• Update Bios, because why not.
• Create boot media and revert to windows 7.

The windows 10 system restore boot media works fine with keyboard and mouse. All USB ports work in windows 7. I don't know what is wrong. I suspect that windows 10 is lacking a driver of some sort, but since the computer accepts no input I have no way of checking for which driver let alone installing it.

Please help me figure this out. If I have to revert back to windows 7 again, I am not going to get it upgraded to windows 10. Thank you in advanced.

 

WindowsUpdate_800704B8-3001A

Hello,

I am trying to upgrade to Windows 10 on one of our computers. We have five computers and four of them have done the upgrade without a problem. The fifth one tries to upgrade, it goes through all the process and then reinstalls windows 8.1? The error message
which then comes up is that it failed on 1 update and gives the error code 800704B8-3001A then it says Windows Update ran into a problem. It says get help with this error but there is no real help available.

Does anyone know what this is.

Thanks.

 

Installing Windows 10 using Windows 7 key

Nope, you need to install Windows 10 first and make sure the Windows 7 key is transferred to your Windows account after you've installed Windows 10 (not quite sure how that works). I missed the last step and I could not activate Windows 10 after a re-install... Microsoft seem to have done everything they can to make it a PITA. Also, it's technically too late to do this now anyhow, as the upgrade offer has expired. But KMSPico works quite well...

As for getting rid of Windows, delete the Windows folder.