Windows 10: Windows 10 upgrade from Windows 7

I am still using Windows 7 on my PC as I am not a huge Windows 10 fan, but now with the impending security support end date looming in January 2020, I have been trying to upgrade my comouter to Windows 10 (it is more than sufficient to run Win10 effectively). However, I keep getting this error after the update process reaches 29%-

"THE INSTALLATION FAILED DURING THE SAFE_OS PHASE WITH AN ERROR DURING MIGRATE_DATA OPERATION" (error code 0x8007042B - 0x2000D)


Now I have spent literally hours researching and this seems to be a common error and none of the suggested solutions have worked for me, just as they haven't seemed to work for anyone else, either. What I was wondering, and I never saw listed as a possible solution anywhere, is this- if a corrupted system file was potentially causing this error (as I saw suggested in many places in relation to this error code), would it theoretically work to restore my system to original factory settings and then attempt the upgrade? Would this not eliminate any corrupted system files if it were restored to it's original state?


Also, many people said that you should make sure the old OS has all the current updates installed, but if you are upgrading to a new system, is this really essential?


Any thoughts/help would be greatly appreciated.

:)

 

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.

 

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.

 

Windows 10 upgrade problem, no input accepted

i've seen this when the stock USB drivers went kaput. Only ever seen it once - i used a PCI USB 2.0 card and connected the mouse and keyboard to that, and manually updated the USB 2/USB 3 drivers.