...failed in the SECOND_BOOT phase w/ an error during SYSPREP_RESPECIALIZE

[ICKIER]

Trying to upgrade from 7 to 10.
It gets past the download, verify, and install then to the 10 boot process (After a restart) and during updates fails at 85% with the subject error and goes back to 7. I feel if it got to 100% it’d be done.
I unplugged all external hardware and disabled mcafee.
Can’t use the SetupDiag program yet. Is there anything to do to point to the problem?

 

[ICKIER]

Update: I was able to display SetupDiag.exe logs with notepad and saw a line at point of fail that mentioned aksfridge.sys so I placed an “X” in the file name so the system couldn’t find it at start up (and I could find it later)

Result: Windows 10 installed.
Any comments on how this fixed it?

 

[Wolfie]

Hi ICKIER,

I have not idea myself but look at the following link and it describes it!.

aksfridge.sys Windows process - What is it?

aksfridge.sys is not essential for Windows 10/11/7 and will often cause problems. Click here to see what aksfridge is doing, and how to remove aksfridge.sys.

www.file.net

Glad you solved your problem. Please mark the thread solved so it helps others.