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I want to point out the upgrade failed for me because my boot partition was on an external PCI-E controller, not the motherboard-native controller. After I moved my boot partition to the on-board controller the upgrade was pretty much perfect. Once I had the OS upgraded I moved the partition...

^^^ Yes, it will do an excellent job of migrating your full configuration. It did for me and I have apps like Lightroom, Adobe Suites, Calman, Nero and many utilities. Even my convoluted True Launch Bar got migrated perfectly to the taskbar, as did Avast! 2014 and Outpost Firewall Pro.

OK, I was trying 7-zip 9.22 and 9.20, but only 9.25 and later do the WIMs. Although doing the Notepad search for "9 6 0 0" in boot.wim yielded only four 16384 build numbers, the properties on the extracted winload.exe using 7-zip 9.25 do proclaim a 16415 build. I do show two updates for win x64...

I downloaded two days ago following Mosharino's process, I just checked my boot.wim and it's 9600.16384, the RTM from the comments here. I started a new download which is half-way through, I'll see if they have changed the build.

Thanks for that insight, SIW2.

Mosharino, IIRC the build was 9600 (I activated so it no longer shows up). And thanks again so much! johncarter of Earth, you either mount the ISO image as a virtual disc with UltraISO or something like that or burn it and use the DVD. Go to the top level and start setup from your current OS...

And that's the right thing to do jds63 :). Every case has differences. Interesting about the 8.0 upgrade clean install. I had no problems and so did not do much research. I was very active in Seven Forums back when 7 was coming out even doing torrents, but as you can see from my # of posts I...

I upgraded from Win 7 Home Premium to 8.0 Pro with the upgrade disc and a clean install, no problems. Why did you have to mess with the registry? In any case, the 8.0 upgrade disc key is what I used for the 8.1 activation and it had no problems. You should do an image backup of your current...

As they say, different strokes for different folks. As long as we're all happy with what we use, life's good :D.

That's correct. Use the generic key to do the install, then use the real 8.0 Pro you have to activate Windows 8.1. Some clarification: to do the download follow the OP's instructions, which starts 2 downloads, first 8.0 with your 8.0 key which you abort when it starts, then immediately the 8.1...

Well, Windows doesn't like Macs. Get a real PC :). Just kidding. But who knows what's going on under the emulation you use.

jds63: Do not buy, you don't need to! The ISO you get following the OP's simple process gets you the RTM ISO! I used it to upgrade both my workstation and convertible tablet using their official 8.0 keys to activate them. Everything is legit. We're just getting a round-about way of getting the...

I should add I had problems with the store update process, always failed when trying to restart. The upgrade from the ISO also failed! After some thinking how my boot partition is on a PCI-E Raid controller, I copied my boot image from the external controller SSDs to an auxiliary OS partition I...

I followed the OP's instructions in the first post and all went as planned. I aborted the 8.0 download, kicked off the 8.1 which immediately failed, kicked the 8.1 again and it downloaded. As to the Ghacks link, I wonder who's zooming who. The Ghacks post is dated the 19th, the OP posted on...

Thank you Mosharino! It worked perfectly!

Well, after 3 tries my upgrade would fail when it got ready to restart. Very painful time wasted! I then found Mosharino's post on downloading the ISO - awesome & THANK YOU!! But my upgrade from the ISO also failed! I started thinking, it goes through everything not a beep but it fails on the...