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I've documented the solution to my particular failure to upgrade in a blog post: Windows 8 upgrade problems? Join the club | .Netitude | .Net development with an edge Hope this helps others! B

Think i found the log in the Pather dir. here's what I found when searching for 'Error' and grabbing the first hit and some context: 2012-08-22 18:24:01, Error CSI 000002de@2012/8/22:23:24:01.646 (F) base\wcp\componentstore\com\advancedinstallerstore.cpp(565): Error...

Got my Win7 install all ready to go for Win8 tonite and kicked off the upgrade. It got so far as to reboot and show "Getting system ready" then it error'd out with "Windows was unable to upgrade one or more components" and then reverted me back to win7. Where can I go to find out more about...

Yeah I like it a lot as well. I've since found I'm not the only one confused by this, but it was a good change on their part :)

looks like I found the problem. The way they decided to do the MSDN listing screwed me up and I grabbed a key for the wrong version, even though I downloaded the ISO I thought was "pro" (it's really an all-in-one from what I now understand) See this article: Windows 8 Professional - and other...

so, any clue on what could be preventing me to do a transparent upgrade path??

yeah i know that but was pretty sure ultimate -> pro was an allowed full upgrade

yeah hash on the ISO matches up with what it shows on MSDN.. how would i verify that what was burned to the USB stick is 64?

I'm severely stumped here... I've got an MSDN-install of Windows 7 x64 Ultimate been running fine for a couple of years now. No issues, all's good. I got my Windows 8 Pro RTM from MSDN this past week and fired it up on my computer last night via USB. Boot in to Windows 7, open USB drive...

I'm wondering what the performance of the drives y'all are using is. I bought a 64gb Lexar s50 just to do this and the performance is HORRID. It took 80min for the imagex /apply to run on the drive, and it takes literally minutes to boot up, and to do anything w/in the OS. The read speed on my...