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Posting this in chillout as I actually already fixed the problem, I'm just curious to see whether anyone else had this issue.
I installed the ISO version of the 8.1 preview in a new partition and 8.1 replaced the 8 Boot manager with it's own one (or at least I got a different splash screen).
Anyway long story short, I ended up not using 8.1 because my USB 3.0 drivers wouldn't work with it, so I went back to 8 but left 8.1 on there (along with it's boot sequence). About 2 weeks later, suddenly my PC started blue-screening, and when I finally coaxed it into booting into 8 (by messing around with advanced options and forcing it to boot 8 rather than 8.1). I got a message saying that there were "drive errors".
Checked the HDD, nothing wrong with it, and once I got 8.1 off of there, everything has gone back to normal.
You tell me though, how on earth does an OS corrupt itself without even being used!?
I installed the ISO version of the 8.1 preview in a new partition and 8.1 replaced the 8 Boot manager with it's own one (or at least I got a different splash screen).
Anyway long story short, I ended up not using 8.1 because my USB 3.0 drivers wouldn't work with it, so I went back to 8 but left 8.1 on there (along with it's boot sequence). About 2 weeks later, suddenly my PC started blue-screening, and when I finally coaxed it into booting into 8 (by messing around with advanced options and forcing it to boot 8 rather than 8.1). I got a message saying that there were "drive errors".
Checked the HDD, nothing wrong with it, and once I got 8.1 off of there, everything has gone back to normal.
You tell me though, how on earth does an OS corrupt itself without even being used!?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 Pro
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Self-built
- CPU
- 2nd Gen Intel Core i5 2500k
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z86a-d3-b3
- Memory
- 8GB DDR3 1333Mhz Crucial DIMM
- Graphics Card(s)
- Nvidia GTX 460 (Gygabite OC)
- Sound Card
- Realtek On board sound
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Acer Al1980 + Generic non brand Monitor
- Screen Resolution
- 1280*1024 + 1366*768
- Hard Drives
- 1TB Sata III Cavier Green
500GB SATA II WD Caviar Blue
160GB SATA II Hitachi
- PSU
- Corsair Extreme
- Case
- Cooler Master HAF-X
- Cooling
- HAF-X cooling (1 exhaust, 1 front, 1 side, 1 top fan)
- Keyboard
- Logitech Wireless
- Mouse
- Logitech Wireless
- Internet Speed
- 12.5 Mb/s down 1.2 (ish) M/b up (ADSL2+)
- Browser
- Firefox
- Antivirus
- Windows Defender