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Windows 10 upgrade fails with error 0x800703ed

Doug Brown Computer repair 2017-05-15

I recently ran into a problem upgrading a computer from Windows 7 to Windows 10. I received an error message with the following error code: 0x800703ed

It turns out this system was a dual-boot Linux and Windows system. I was actually booting to a different hard drive which had GRUB installed, and then GRUB was booting to my Windows drive. I fixed the problem by switching my BIOS boot order to boot directly to the drive with Windows 7 installed and then repeated the update process. This resulted in a successful Windows 10 upgrade. After the upgrade was complete I was able to change my BIOS boot order back to the way it was before, and now everything works fine.

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3 comments

  1. Martin @ 2017-09-09 05:29

    Thanks – I ran into the same error, and this fixed it :).

  2. Diane @ 2017-12-18 09:20

    Thanks, it also worked for me, easy 🙂

  3. thierrybo @ 2018-03-25 02:25

    Hi,

    unfortunately I use my computer since 2011 with the first Disk 0 as boot disk in bios, while my linux partition is the third on the same disk, so I can’t change disk in Bios.

    https://framapic.org/QKF1ovNOMTHc/BvTmLFKM1bQr.PNG

    This seetup work since 2011, and I upgrades from Windows 7 to Windows 8, 8.1, 10, 10, 10-17.03 without any problem. Only windows 10-17.09 upgrade fails with this error.

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