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Windows Error Reporting

Note

This article is a 300 level article (moderately advanced).

See Resolve Windows upgrade errors for a full list of articles in this section.

When Windows Setup fails, the result code and extend code are recorded as an informational event in the Application log by Windows Error Reporting as event 1001. The event name is WinSetupDiag02. Event Viewer or Windows PowerShell can be used to review this event.

To use Windows PowerShell, type the following commands from an elevated Windows PowerShell prompt:

Important

The following Event logs are only available if Windows was updated from a previous version of Windows to a new version of Windows.

$events = Get-WinEvent -FilterHashtable @{LogName="Application";ID="1001";Data="WinSetupDiag02"}
$event = [xml]$events[0].ToXml()
$event.Event.EventData.Data

To use Event Viewer:

  1. Open Event Viewer and navigate to Windows Logs\Application.
  2. Select Find, and then search for winsetupdiag02.
  3. Double-click the event that is highlighted.

Note

For legacy operating systems, the Event Name was WinSetupDiag01.

Ten parameters are listed in the event:

Parameters Description Example
P1 The Setup Scenario 1=Media, 5=WindowsUpdate, 7=Media Creation Tool
P2 Setup Mode x=default, 1=Downlevel, 5=Rollback
P3 New OS Architecture x=default, 0=X86, 9=AMD64
P4 Install Result x=default, 0=Success, 1=Failure,2=Cancel, 3=Blocked
P5 Result Error Code 0xc1900101
P6 Extend Error Code 0x20017
P7 Source OS build 9600
P8 Source OS branch Not typically available
P9 New OS build 16299
P10 New OS branch rs3_release

The event also contains links to log files that can be used to perform a detailed diagnosis of the error. The following example is an example of this event from a successful upgrade:

Windows Error Reporting.