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panagos13
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Dec 06, 2025

Windows 11 23H2 → 25H2 in-place upgrade fails in SAFE_OS / MIGRATE_DATA

I'm trying to in-place upgrade a Windows 11 23H2 system to 25H2 and consistently get a rollback in the SAFE_OS / MIGRATE_DATA phase with 0x8007042B – 0x2000D. After a lot of analysis (Panther logs, S...
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Anthony2
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Feb 16, 2026

Hello,
We found a solution that works.

  • Open/Extract the Windows 11 25H2 ISO file Open the ISO file and navigate to the Path –sources\Replacementmanifests folder. In that, delete the file \sources\replacementmanifests\tpmdriverwmi-replacement.man from the Windows installation media.
  • - On the affected system, we would instruct Windows not to try replacing the manifest from 25H2 ISO file. Concurrently, the file handling the manifest is \Windows\WinSxS\migration.xml.
  • - Open the file using Notepad. The file would have a lot of <file></file> tags. - Search for microsoft-windows-tpm-driver-wmi. There would be 2 entries. Delete both of them