Hello all,
I've searched the web tirelessly for the past few days to no avail. I own a Lenovo Y580 Ideapad that came with Windows 8 preinstalled, so I was never given a license key or CD, and I am trying to use the SSD as my main drive by doing a clean install of Windows 8 there and then copying over any other files I want from my HDD.
I downloaded a Windows 8 iso file and verified the hash so I know it was a clean file. I burned that iso to a flash drive using Rufus, following all of the instructions in this post: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/15458-uefi-bootable-usb-flash-drive-create-windows.html
When I attempted to boot from the flash drive my computer would hang at the Lenovo start up screen (black screen with Lenovo written on it) and then start flashing on/off every 5 seconds for a minute or two and then hang at the start up screen once more indefinitely. It would not let me F2 to BIOS when I turned it on or F12 to Boot device selection. So, I formatted the flash drive and then followed this post: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2227-create-bootable-usb-dvd-windows-8-iso.html
Once again, no dice. Same problem. I tried putting my HDD as the very last boot option, enabling Legacy boot mode, etc etc but still haven't been successful. The iso I used was an x64 Windows 8 (core I believe? Just regular). I am currently downloading the 8.1 iso to see if that will work.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm growing extremely tired of this since nothing I have come across seems to work, and I haven't seen anyone else with this specific problem.
Thanks in advance to any and all replies.
I've searched the web tirelessly for the past few days to no avail. I own a Lenovo Y580 Ideapad that came with Windows 8 preinstalled, so I was never given a license key or CD, and I am trying to use the SSD as my main drive by doing a clean install of Windows 8 there and then copying over any other files I want from my HDD.
I downloaded a Windows 8 iso file and verified the hash so I know it was a clean file. I burned that iso to a flash drive using Rufus, following all of the instructions in this post: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/15458-uefi-bootable-usb-flash-drive-create-windows.html
When I attempted to boot from the flash drive my computer would hang at the Lenovo start up screen (black screen with Lenovo written on it) and then start flashing on/off every 5 seconds for a minute or two and then hang at the start up screen once more indefinitely. It would not let me F2 to BIOS when I turned it on or F12 to Boot device selection. So, I formatted the flash drive and then followed this post: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2227-create-bootable-usb-dvd-windows-8-iso.html
Once again, no dice. Same problem. I tried putting my HDD as the very last boot option, enabling Legacy boot mode, etc etc but still haven't been successful. The iso I used was an x64 Windows 8 (core I believe? Just regular). I am currently downloading the 8.1 iso to see if that will work.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm growing extremely tired of this since nothing I have come across seems to work, and I haven't seen anyone else with this specific problem.
Thanks in advance to any and all replies.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1