Windows Forum·65,795 discussions

Upgrade HP ProDesk 600 G1 TWR Desktop PC from Windows 7 Professional to Win

Tags: Operating Systems

Upgrade HP ProDesk 600 G1 TWR Desktop PC from Windows 7 Professional to Windows 10

Product: HP ProDesk 600 G1 TWR Desktop PC
Processor: Intel Core i5-4570 CPU @ 3.20 GHz 3.20 GHz
RAM : 4 GB RAM
HDD : 1 TB
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (64-Bit)

I have tried installing MediaCreationTool22H2 downloaded it from the Microsoft Site.
But ending up with 0X80072F8F – 0X20000

What has to be done to run W10, suggested methods in google search failed ?

Topic

Re: error

In reply to Upgrade HP ProDesk 600 G1 TWR Desktop PC from Windows 7 Professional to Win

You’re not telling much.

It seems to be an activation error.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/error-0x80072f8f-activate-error/c9ea5b45-4292-4a78-881a-74434b3e4979 suggest to contact Microsoft if the solutions it offers fail.
Do you say that Microsofts activation error support couldn’t help? Or didn’t you try that yet?

Requirements

In reply to Re: error

Hope i could meet your tell tale requirements much the below

Hardware available
Software used
Result of the application being installed and discussion resulting it for solutions.

This is not to annoy you, but didn’t get a way to reply you back, hence this.
There a bunch of systems in an office. As the systems are installed 5 years ago, the warranty too became void because of the presence of the system admins looking after the systems. Now the system admin is tasked with conversion from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and he is facing the error 0x80072f8f 0x20000_ 2023 when he is installing the tool MediaCreationTool22H2 provided for the purpose by Microsoft, in every system he ran the tool. Also applied all the reasonable logics different from each other and found the same error on each of the system. One system has the activation error as suggested by you, it failed at the very beginning saying “activation not done”. The rest failed with the error 0x80072f8f 0x20000_ 2023. Unable to attach the screenshot as there is no provision for it. The rest systems are very well activated and failing with the error mentioned.

Sounds like the usual.

In reply to Requirements

That happens a lot so to upgrade we clean install the new version of Windows.

I know folk would like to be able to avoid the clean install but it’s costly to pay Microsoft or other support companies to fix it. Not only the time and money there are many systems that can’t be fixed no matter who is working the problem.

But hey, if the company insists, get the company credit card handy and pay Microsoft to fix it.

For our company, we would stop trying to upgrade and move to the clean install. Done so many times.

At my brother’s office

In reply to Upgrade HP ProDesk 600 G1 TWR Desktop PC from Windows 7 Professional to Win

We had similar machines. Upgrades are fraught with problems so we do clean installs.
We also replace HDDs with SSDs since Windows 10 and 11 are no longer optimized for operation/use on HDDs. This change has upset so many.

[Author]

Replies