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I try to perform an in-place upgrade of Windows and I receive the following error

0x080070003 - 0x3000D The installation failed in the FIRST_BOOT phase with an error during MIGRATE_DATA operation

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I have tried plenty of different suggestions to no avail. Everytime the update stops and undoes the changes.

What I did so far:

  • Stopped antivirus
  • Disabled graphics card
  • Deleted SoftwareDistribution folder for Windows Updates
  • I did leave more than 30GB space
  • Used a USB instead of mounting the image
  • Cleared registry from user entries other than one user

This whole story started because the system won't update to 20H2 version (update constantly fails), and in the steps suggested I have noticed that the sfc /scannow does not finish. Stops at 72% with the error

Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation.

but I am hopeful that if I do an in-place upgrade, I can overcome this issue.

Any help to either direction would be a lifesaver.

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I found where to look for the correct logs. See: Log Files

In the end the problem was with non-latin characters in the (only) account of the user.

I had already changed the username in the registry but Windows was smart enough to create a symlink in the user folder, rather than renaming the actual folder.

So I created a new admin account and followed this suggested answer to rename the profile. And did a find and replace in the registry where needed to be sure that there are no remains of the old username anywhere.

The update finished with no problems afterwards.

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If you need update your windows 10 device to the latest version, I would suggest you can download Windows Update Assistant from the following link and have a try. The Update Assistant can help you update to the latest version of Windows 10.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

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