BBScruffyBuck
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- Location
- Ocean Shores, WA
Well that was the longest 36 hours of my adult life! After a week or so of tweaking version Win8.1 settings, I finally reached the inevitable (and expected) stage of having crossed the boundary of no return (by virtue, in this care, of reaching for the System Image I burned prior to my time in the sandbox.)
Imagine my horror in discovering my Win 8.0 key wasn't going to allow Win 8.1 to install the image!! 3 calls to Microsoft yielded 3 completely different ideas for troubleshooting the issue; the last of which was to--and I quote: "Buy a $40 replacement key and stop Installing windows so much!"
Finally was able to get Win 8.1 Activated via a registry hack but still no-bueno on use of the system image.
Which is why I spent the next 24 hours (and counting extracting files from the VHDX image trying to salvage as much data as I can.
Meanwhile I've purchased a copy of O&O's imaging suite (a better use of my $40) and now I can stop installing windows so much!
To upgrade the ENTIRE user-base en masse, did Nobody in Redmond see this coming?
Sorry for the rant. I've been up since Sunday morning, living on Mt. Dew, coffee & Cheetos.
Imagine my horror in discovering my Win 8.0 key wasn't going to allow Win 8.1 to install the image!! 3 calls to Microsoft yielded 3 completely different ideas for troubleshooting the issue; the last of which was to--and I quote: "Buy a $40 replacement key and stop Installing windows so much!"
Finally was able to get Win 8.1 Activated via a registry hack but still no-bueno on use of the system image.
Which is why I spent the next 24 hours (and counting extracting files from the VHDX image trying to salvage as much data as I can.
Meanwhile I've purchased a copy of O&O's imaging suite (a better use of my $40) and now I can stop installing windows so much!
To upgrade the ENTIRE user-base en masse, did Nobody in Redmond see this coming?
Sorry for the rant. I've been up since Sunday morning, living on Mt. Dew, coffee & Cheetos.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Win 8.1 Pro and Win 8.1 RT
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Self
- CPU
- AMD Athlon III
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Tech
- Memory
- 8gig
- Graphics Card(s)
- Nvidia GForce 550ti
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 2x HP w19
- Screen Resolution
- 1440 * 900
- Hard Drives
- 4 x 2TB
- PSU
- 1500 watt
- Case
- Diablotek
- Cooling
- Air
- Keyboard
- MS 7000
- Mouse
- MS 7000
- Internet Speed
- 10 x 2
- Browser
- Chrome most often
- Antivirus
- MSSE