By skyforbes 
Number of users Report While Install windows 10 or upgrade To recent windows 10 fall Creators update, installation Stop With A error We couldn’t install Windows 10 (0x8007002C — 0x400D). The installation failed in the Safe-Os phase with an error during Migrate-Data operation” error.
If you are also suffering from this Error 0x8007002C-0x400D We couldn’t install windows 10 While install or upgrade. Here we have some working solutions to get rid of this. This Error mostly Occur due to Third party Application Conflict, Security Software, Disk Drive Errors, not enough storage space, incompatible driver, system files corruption, and more.
Basic Troubleshooting
Uninstall Custom Theme and Theme Patches: Personally, i have notice While upgrade my laptop windows version to fall creators Update get this Error. After check and perform Different solutions last i found After uninstall the Custom Theme or Theme patches Windows allow me to upgrade without any error.
If you also have installed any custom theme you should probably uninstall that custom theme and theme patchers. Those will cause issues 100%. Theme files need to be updated for every version, so they won’t work unless they get updated. Same goes for theme patches.
Disable Third-party Application
Try temporarily disabling or uninstalling your antivirus software and turning off any 3rd party firewall software you have running and see if the upgrade will succeed. Especially if you are using Folder Locker application Then Uninstall the same and try To upgrade Windows 10.
Reset The Windows Update components
If you are getting this Error 0x8007002C-0x400D We couldn’t install windows 10 While Upgrade to recent windows version, Then there must be something Wrong with windows update Storage folder ( software Distribution folder ). Windows have inbuilt Update troubleshooting tool Which helps to find and fix this type of problems itself for you. We recommend first run windows update troubleshooting tool and let windows to fix the problem for you. If this didn’t help then manually reset the Windows update components.
You can run the Windows update troubleshooting tool from Control panel -> small icon view -> Troubleshooting -> Windows Update. Here click on Advanced and check mark on apply repairs automatically.
lick next and Follow onscreen instructions To run the troubleshooting tool. After that Restart windows and do the windows upgrade If still having same error Try manually reset windows update components.
Reset Software Distribution and catroot2 Folder
Software Distribution folder and catroot2 contain many important Update related files, So if these files get corrupted users may face different Errors while upgrade or install updates. we are going to rename Software Distribution and Catroor2 folder so that windows create New folders and install the fresh files automatically. For this first, we need to stop some windows update related services.
Open Command prompt as administrator, Type and hit the enter key to execute the command net stop wuauserv To disable Windows Update Service. Next type net stop bits To stop Background Intelligent Transfer (BITS ) Service, Again type net stop cryptSvc to stop Cryptographic service and type net stop msiserver To stop MSI Installer service.
Now Type command ren C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old hit enter to rename SoftwareDistribution folder to SoftwareDistribution.old
Again type ren C:\Windows\System32\catroot2 Catroot2.old command to rename Catroot2 Folder to Catroot2.old. continue Reading….