In place upgrade from 2008r2 to 2012r2 fails.

HamiltonTheRed 1 Reputation point
2021-02-15T16:13:36.287+00:00

I know there are quite a few posts about this very thing, and I'm trying to find one that replicates my issue. Going ahead and posting my setupact.log and setuperr.log in the hopes that someone can help clear it up.

In-place upgrade failed and rollback was successful.
I have a D: partition on this drive and for some reason $WINDOWS.~BT was over there, not sure if that means anything relevant.

setupact.log is too large @ 14MB 68341-setuperr.log

-Josh

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  1. Dave Patrick 418.2K Reputation points MVP
    2021-02-16T01:27:07.783+00:00

    In-place upgrades are never recommended. Better option is to clean install it, patch fully and migrate roles over to new one.

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  2. AliceYang-MSFT 2,076 Reputation points
    2021-02-16T08:12:20.367+00:00

    Hi,

    Please remove the drivers listed in the setuperr.log and check whether server can upgrade successfully after the removal.

    DISM Driver Servicing (.inf) Command-Line Options

    Use DISM with INF-style drivers to add, remove, or list drivers to an online or offline Windows image (.wim).

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