Something happened, Windows 10 installation has failed error.

I experience exactly the same problem(24% - error message) and I also have Linux(Debian) installed.
If you find a solution, please, do share.

Ok so I tried to reinstall windows 7 from the disc as you would the upgrade same problem same crash with windows 7. I then formatted my HDD after making a USB drive with windows 10 on it. I've now reinstalled windows 7 as a clan install I will then try to upgrade from a clean 7 once all the updates finish.

@Soke
Let us know how it goes!

Yeah that worked for me all up and running.

Same problem with mine. Trying to avoid a clean install - want to leverage an upgrade. Appears to be a major bug with the Windows 10 upgrade. The error trapping and associate messages are poor. Hopefully there is a fix posted soon.

I just found this fix. Haven't tried it yet.

[Fix] Error Message in Windows 10 Upgrade - AskVG

I checked my system locale and it is indeed set to "English (United States)." Although, the error message looked like this for me:


But maybe the two errors are related?

Windows Sniper said:

Hey Guys, can i just check that you've tried redownloading the installation files?

The Microsoft KB points to these errors being caused by corrupt/missing files within the installation directory.

Common Faults / Fixes List - Windows 10 Forums >

I've tried this 4 times, starting with a totally empty C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download directory each time. All fail the same way with the 80070005 error.

ivanabq said:

I've tried this 4 times, starting with a totally empty C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download directory each time. All fail the same way with the 80070005 error.

That specific error is covered by Microsoft under > https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/968003

I found a solution and I think it might work for you too since you problem seems very similar. It turns out that there was some problem with the boot configuration data and I simply had to rebuild it. I found good instruction of how to do it here - https://www.winhelp.us/repair-your-c...8.html#bootrec - look for "Step 1.3 (optional) - repair Boot Configuration Data". More clear and straight forward instructions can be found here http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixthe...re-windows.htm , but they only work for legacy boot mode, if you have UEFI boot mode you will need to use following commands instead:


diskpart (opens Disk Partitioning tool)
select disk 0
list volume (please note the number of the volume that has no drive letter assigned and has FAT32 listed in Fs column)
select volume <the number of ~500 MB FAT32 volume with no drive letter, or with label ESP>
assign letter=Z: (gives drive letter Z: to EFI System Partition)
exit (closes Disk Partitioning tool)
cd /d Z:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\ (changes current folder in Command Prompt window)
attrib Z:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD -h -r -s (removes hidden, read-only and system attributes from BCD folder)
ren Z:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD BCD.old (renames BCD folder to BCD.old)
bootrec /rebuildbcd (retries the rebuild)