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    Solved Windows 8 Upgrade / UEFI confusion

    So after creating the USB drive using Rufus I was able to complete the installation, and this time it did not ask me to remove the USB drive. It restarted as it should and this time it only restarted one time. However, I was met with a blank screen but this one allowed a mouse pointer. A little...
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    Solved Windows 8 Upgrade / UEFI confusion

    Would it have worked at all if it was NTFS? I guess I never checked, I actually used the Windows 8 upgrade program to create the initial USB stick, but I never checked how it formatted. Though it was a brand new USB stick that was originally formatted in FAT32.
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    Solved Windows 8 Upgrade / UEFI confusion

    I remove the USB stick when the installation process asks me to remove it. As for the tutorials above, I actually followed them after my initial failure from within Windows 7. The only exception was that I did not use Rufus to create the USB drive. While I am going to retry using Rufus, I am...
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    Solved Windows 8 Upgrade / UEFI confusion

    Following the crash of my old system due to hardware failure I recently put together the computer I am currently using, the following are the specs and I will get into the issues I am having following. Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-970A-D3P CPU: AMD FX-8350 Memory: 8gigs GPU: SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7870 GHz...
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