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Dell with Win Pro 7, cannot upgrade.

Error 80073B92-20009, it goes through the 1st reboot then reverts to Win7. the very little I can find out says there is a driver issue but all my drivers seem OK. I shut off Norton. I am installing to a 256GB SSD that has 113 GB free.

Anyone have an idea???

Thanks!!!

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It could be an old driver and removing non-present drivers may clear it up.

To remove non-present drivers, run a cmd prompt as an admin by going Start – type cmd then right click on cmd and select Run as administrator – accept the UAC and enter –

set_devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1

devmgmt.msc

In Device Manager, click on View/Show hidden devices then expand the various sections and right click on the ones with greyed out icons and select Uninstall.

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I appreciate the help but is that exactly correct? I am a tech myself and the CMD screen did not like set_devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1

Thank you.

See bottom of thread.

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My apologies – I’d put an underscore between set and devmgr when there shouldn’t be one.

EDIT – I see Joe has beaten me to it.

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I tried it via download, as if I would be making a DVD/USB copy but saying I want to upgrade this PC, not make a DVD/USB.

When I tried to burn a DVD from Microsoft, it told me the ISO image would be too big for a DVD. I was not expecting that.

I also have a PC with UEFI and GPT drives, how i with someone could teach me about the ins and outs of how to work in it.

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The ISO for W10 Pro uses 2.83Gb, so plenty of space on a DVD.
MS says “The error message “0x80073B92 20009″ means that there are some driver or software updates that needs to be installed.” The first thing you should do therefore is to run the W10 Update Advisor. This is built into KB3035583 which puts a “get windows 10” icon in the system tray, you can check compatibility using that. It will run a readiness report and flag anything that has issues with W10.

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The ISO for W10 Pro uses 2.83Gb, so plenty of space on a DVD.
MS says “The error message “0x80073B92 20009″ means that there are some driver or software updates that needs to be installed.” The first thing you should do therefore is to run the W10 Update Advisor. This is built into KB3035583 which puts a “get windows 10” icon in the system tray, you can check compatibility using that. It will run a readiness report and flag anything that has issues with W10.

No issues over there from what I see. I right-click the Get Windows Icon in my tray, I look at report which says that I am good to go.

I did get a DVD burned. The Dell Precision T5610 running Win Pro 7 has no data on it, just Office 2010 Norton/Symantec and Acronis 2015. I can reinstall Office, but am unsure on how to reinstall Acronis or Norton, I need to dig for the license #s on those two.

Thank you!!!!!

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Remove the underscore after “set”.

Joe

--Joe

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OK, as someone who wrote autoexec.bat, win.ini and config.sys files in a different century, I know how easy it is to make typos, lol!!!!!!!

But as noted, Win10 compatibility says that I am “good to go”. I will try this. Could something in Norton and/or Acronis also be causing the problem?

I don’t want to, but if a clean install will make this work, that becomes an option.

Thank you!!!

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I use Norton Security and this laptop upgraded okay, although it didn’t sit very well and eventually broke so I took it back to Win 7.

Don’t know about Acronis but you could disable Norton while trying the upgrade.

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Latest updates. Ran the set command for device manager. No alerts, no bad hardware. I did see an Acronis Disk Mounter which I disabled.

Unfortunately, I get the same error message and same result.

I have product keys for my apps on the machine, Norton, Office 2010 and Acronis. It looks like I have no choice but to have Win10 do a clean install on the PC. Can someone point me the right way to do it? I also have a UEFI Boot up. I made a DVD for install, is it bootable? Or do I run it through Win7?

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Have you tried it with Norton disabled ?

That cmd was to identify old greyed out drivers to uninstall rather than look for any alerts.

Can’t help you with the Win 10 clean install though – never done one.

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1/ The easy option
Go to Settings.
In Settings, click on Update & Security.
In Update and Security, click on Recovery, then under Reset This PC, click on Get Started.
Choose the option to Remove Everything. Alternatively, you can choose to retain
your personal files which will keep the files in your profile intact.

2/Clean Install
If you want to clean install Windows 10 on the same machine, download the ISO file and create a USB drive or DVD disk. Run the setup for a clean install. During installation, when Windows setup asks you for the product key, skip the step and let it complete. Once its finished installing, your copy of Windows will activate automatically when you connect to the Internet for the first time. The key is stored in your account on line so Microsoft knows you clean installed on the same hardware.

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Option 1 does not work, I am trying to upgrade a Dell 5610 from 7 to 10, not clean up a screwy 10 install. Since I cannot get anywhere upgrading in place with Win 7 despite multiple efforts, I am ready to do a clean install, then reinstall Norton, Acronis and Office 2010.

My Microsoft account, which shows two of my win10 pcs, does not show this win7 PC. I know the upgrade option will pick up the product key. Will the clean install option also pick up the product key or will I need to have that on-hand?

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My Microsoft account, which shows two of my win10 pcs, does not show this win7 PC. I know the upgrade option will pick up the product key. Will the clean install option also pick up the product key or will I need to have that on-hand?

Your Microsoft account doesn’t show it because the failed Windows 10 upgrade didn’t activate (which only happens at the end of a successful installation) so the hardware ID wasn’t saved on the MS servers.

It looks like the Dell T5610 was available with both Windows 7 Pro and Windows 8 Pro. If yours was supplied with Windows 7 then it should have a COA sticker on the case, which may be needed to activate Windows. If it came with Windows 8 Pro (and you used Downgrade Rights to install Windows 7 Pro) then the Windows Product key should be embedded in the BIOS/UEFI… so should activate automatically.

I prefer clean installs (after several failed in-place upgrades) and have carried out several. I use the method here: How to Directly Clean Install Windows 10 without having to Upgrade First and it’s worked flawlessly each time.

Hope this helps…

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