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- Savannah, GA
Hello,
I bought two new, cheap, Gateway computers for the office, but I need to get them upgraded to Pro so that I can join them to my domain. The computers are pretty decent, though, both w 4GB memory, and one's a dual core, and the other a quad; the dual rates at a 4.1 WEI, and the quad is a 4.5.
My Win 8 media was created from my MS Action Pack subscription and should be valid for upgrading this computer.
I tried all of the standard install options for Win 8 from that media, but each time the computer goes through the whole process and finally reboots itself back to where it was before and simply says "Windows 8 Upgrade Fails".
I've thought about wacking the partitions, and installing 8 from scratch, but I guess I'd rather not if I didn't have to...
Any thoughts on how I can get this upgrade to go through?
Oh yeah, and where is the setup log? I looked in C:\windows\panther\setuperr.log but that file was empty.
Thanks in advance!
--Jon
I bought two new, cheap, Gateway computers for the office, but I need to get them upgraded to Pro so that I can join them to my domain. The computers are pretty decent, though, both w 4GB memory, and one's a dual core, and the other a quad; the dual rates at a 4.1 WEI, and the quad is a 4.5.
My Win 8 media was created from my MS Action Pack subscription and should be valid for upgrading this computer.
I tried all of the standard install options for Win 8 from that media, but each time the computer goes through the whole process and finally reboots itself back to where it was before and simply says "Windows 8 Upgrade Fails".
I've thought about wacking the partitions, and installing 8 from scratch, but I guess I'd rather not if I didn't have to...
Any thoughts on how I can get this upgrade to go through?
Oh yeah, and where is the setup log? I looked in C:\windows\panther\setuperr.log but that file was empty.
Thanks in advance!
--Jon
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Dell Studio XPS 435T / 9000
- CPU
- Core i7
- Memory
- 6GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM v1.1)