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Cannot upgrade Windows 8 to Windows 10 "error code 0x80072f8f"
I am unable to upgrade a Windows 8 laptop to Windows 10 using the free upgrade from Microsoft that they had years ago when they were offering it. I saved the exe that was downloaded.
It has NEVER failed me in the past—in fact, I upgraded my mother's Windows 8 PC to Windows 10 just last month and she had a ton of crap on it. I cannot even get it to download on mine EVEN AFTER a factory reset wiping all files.
Every time it gets to the "downloading Windows 10" it ALWAYS errors out as:
"Something went wrong. Couldn't download Windows 10. Please check your network settings and try again. error code 0x80072f8f"
A Google search of the error code says the only time you get that error code is if your date/time is incorrect. But nothing could be further from the truth! My date and time IS INDEED correct! I even have the correct time zone. But the problem still persists!
I tried using a negative operator "-time" to exclude time from the search but then ONLY results pertaining to error code 0x80072f8f - 0x20000 came up and there is NO 0x20000 in my error code! there is ONLY: error code 0x80072f8f
Does anybody know what the problem could be?