Windows 10: Error Code 0x80072F8F When Attempting to Upgrade From Windows 7 to Windows 10 {was: My...

Hi there I found my old Acer laptop that running Windows 7 when I try to upgrade to Windows 10 there is a error code is 0x80072F8F-0x20000 I hope anyone can help me because I wanted to give this to my brother.

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Cannot upgrade Windows 8 to Windows 10 "error code 0x80072f8f"

I am unable to upgrade a Windows 8 laptop to Windows 10 using the free upgrade from Microsoft that they had years ago when they were offering it. I saved the exe that was downloaded.

It has NEVER failed me in the past—in fact, I upgraded my mother's Windows 8 PC to Windows 10 just last month and she had a ton of crap on it. I cannot even get it to download on mine EVEN AFTER a factory reset wiping all files.

Every time it gets to the "downloading Windows 10" it ALWAYS errors out as:

"Something went wrong. Couldn't download Windows 10. Please check your network settings and try again. error code 0x80072f8f"

A Google search of the error code says the only time you get that error code is if your date/time is incorrect. But nothing could be further from the truth! My date and time IS INDEED correct! I even have the correct time zone. But the problem still persists!

I tried using a negative operator "-time" to exclude time from the search but then ONLY results pertaining to error code 0x80072f8f - 0x20000 came up and there is NO 0x20000 in my error code! there is ONLY: error code 0x80072f8f

Does anybody know what the problem could be?

 

WIndows 10 : How well/bad did the upgrade work for you ?

My forced upgrade attempt failed to activate, got an error code (no button to activate). Went back to windows 7 and I will not attempt to upgrade again for now.

 

MediaCreationTool22H2 Error 0x80072f8f - 0x20000




"This step may not be needed for Windows 8."

I wish Ramesh would revise this.