So, like everyone else, Windows Update downloaded and attempted to install the Win10 upgrade over my Win 7 installation.
However, it failed spectacularly so I tried the "manual method, which also failed with the error:
Installation failed in the SAFE_OS phase with an error during BOOT operation
My wife's Toshiba Satellite laptop and my daughter's Asus laptop both upgraded beautifully. My machine, which I built a couple years ago and is well beyond the minimum specifications, is not being so cooperative. Several hours of Google and various other forum searches have turned up a handful of people who have resolved that issue on their machines, but none of those suggested fixes have worked on mine. One thing to note is that this is on a UEFI motherboard, not a traditional BIOS based system.
I do have an idea as to a possible reason.....
Last year when I upgraded my OS drive from IDE to SSD I didn't do a "clean" install, I just cloned the IDE drive to the SSD and called it good. About a month after the SSD install I decided that I wanted to give Linux a shot and I tried to dual-boot Ubuntu and the existing Windows 7 install. I was never successful with that and I ended up screwing up the Windows Boot Manager. I did eventually end up "fixing" it without doing a total OS reinstallation, but I'm wondering if that band-aid approach is what's kicking my ass now. All of my "critical" data is already backed up on another drive and online, but I'd rather not have to download 50GB+ worth of games and applications all in one shot if I can avoid it.
Anyway, what I'm thinking of doing is just wiping my OS drive and Apps drive (I have 3 physical drives) including wiping and recreating the partitions then installing Windows 7, updating it to SP1, then trying to do the manual install method for Win10.
Thoughts / suggestions before I nuke my machine and use it as a test bed?
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