Hey guys! I'm having a problem with windows 8 professional setup:
So I have win8 consumer preview installed on my laptop. A couple days ago its licence expired, so I got win8 professional to upgrade.
I made an install USB with the win7 USB utility and proceeded to boot from the stick. The setup then told me I should restart my pc and restart the installation from windows.
I did that, but win8 setup won't start. It just starts reading from the usb for a second, then stops. The setup from the .iso I downloaded does the same thing.
To make things more interesting, the first time I restarted my PC after trying to upgrade windows from USB at start-up, I ran win8 setup and it did start and started doing some things, on that small blue screen that pops up. I didn't pay attention to it until the blue setup screen disappeared and nothing else happened...
One more thing, I tried to install Microsoft windows server 2012 on my laptop a month ago and the same thing happened with the setup.
Did a few hours of research on the internet, tried to run it in compatibility mode.. hope somebody can help me upgrade it. Can't really afford to do a "clean" install now, and on top of that, my PC reboots every 2 hours because my licence is expired...
Thanks!
So I have win8 consumer preview installed on my laptop. A couple days ago its licence expired, so I got win8 professional to upgrade.
I made an install USB with the win7 USB utility and proceeded to boot from the stick. The setup then told me I should restart my pc and restart the installation from windows.
I did that, but win8 setup won't start. It just starts reading from the usb for a second, then stops. The setup from the .iso I downloaded does the same thing.
To make things more interesting, the first time I restarted my PC after trying to upgrade windows from USB at start-up, I ran win8 setup and it did start and started doing some things, on that small blue screen that pops up. I didn't pay attention to it until the blue setup screen disappeared and nothing else happened...
One more thing, I tried to install Microsoft windows server 2012 on my laptop a month ago and the same thing happened with the setup.
Did a few hours of research on the internet, tried to run it in compatibility mode.. hope somebody can help me upgrade it. Can't really afford to do a "clean" install now, and on top of that, my PC reboots every 2 hours because my licence is expired...
Thanks!
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 Consumer Preview
- CPU
- AMD Athlon II Neo K345 Dual-Core