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Upgrading from windows 7 to windows 10 error 0xc0000005
Ok, to start out with, im not going to lie, im slightly ashamed to be using the upgrade for disability services but at the same time I already had the free upgrade and will elaborate further in the text to come (excuse my punctuation, im dyslexic and punctuation is a sore point.)
I upgraded from windows 7 pro to windows 10 almost 2 years ago now when the upgrade was first made available free. Just day before yesterday I made some prety drastic upgrades to my computer. CPU, ram, MOBO, etc. Switched to the I7 7th gen from 5th gen, the list goes on. Windows immediately started acting up with BSODs and errors left and right. I figured maybe it was a licensing issue but that wasnt the problem. Checked my ram, CPU, Hard disk, nothing. I havent had a clean install of windows in a few years so I said F it and went ahead and attempted a reinstall of windows 10. After doing so I was BSODing on startup. I researched the problem and spent about 5 hours attempting to fix. I couldnt even get into safe mode. That said I popped the original windows 7 disk in and took it from there.
Windows 7 installed fine (but it took 3 tries before my SSD played nice with the install) it seemed everything worked. I grabbed the still available upgrade to windows 10 for disability services and attempted to upgrade after installing both before and after installing windows 7 updates but I am getting the same error each time saying could not complete upgrade, and the error code 0xc0000005.
Again I checked my new ram, my SSD, and adjusted my bios multiple times over and even reset my CMOS (some people say this has helped them) but nothing worked. I also tried going into CMD and checking the windows files and registry and everything seems in order. Ever since I made these upgrades with a 7700k and ddr4 ram ive been having problems. I dont think its the hardware tho because as I mentioned everything appears to be registering fine hardware wise.
Mostly I am trying to determine whether there is a fix in place that anyone could suggest that might help this upgrade move along or should I invest in a full win10 purchase, and if I do, do you suspect I will still run into problems. I called Microsoft support about this but it has been years since my last call and it seems now they have turned it into a paid service and I really have no desire to pay them for a problem that seems to be on their end as this seems OS related and not hardware related (though, I could be wrong.)
I truly appreciate your help and support,
Thornton Strolia