I always keep my BIOS up-to-date, despite the risk. It'll be sorry one day...
Anyway, I'm going to go ahead and marked this solved.
Zavation told me to set my BIOS to default - after which I set to 'Fail-Safe Defaults' - which didn't work.
Then I restarted, noticed the 'Optimized Defaults'...
Hmm... Are you sure those ISO hashes will match ones compiled by the Upgrade Assistant? Neither of the ISOs I have match the hashes on that page.
And yes, of course I've tried using the Upgrade Assistant from my desktop.
Edit: Also, pretty much every time the Assistant checks for updates, it...
Thanks, I already did do this with no luck (as in the topic post).
@above: I'll try the BIOS thing in a sec. I tried creating the ISO and have the MD5, but I don't have anything to compare it to. Both ISOs I made (before and after a re-download) have different MD5s.
Edit: Hang on, you say...
Hi,
I'm trying to upgrade from Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows 8 Pro via the Keep-Everything upgrade option.
Every attempt has the install failing after hitting 29% completion.
I've re-downloaded 3 times, have uninstalled everything that the upgrader suggested was incompatible (including...