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to fafhrd: I do not undersrtand PM, and I can't find anything in my profile that relates to prohibiting PMs, whatever they are. As to the contents of my C drive, I have found Windows.old. Under it: program files, program files (x86), users, and Windows. The files in theere have mostly older...

To fathrd: I am unable to find the location of the win8 installation. When I am using notepad, and ask for all files I find the following: Drives C, D, E, G all are exactly as they were before this fiasco. I System Reserve now shows 33.7 MB used and shows Temp folder dated 6/9/2012 and...

To fafhrd: I followed your instructions and used the command prompt. My Win 8 installation was not on K but on X BOOT. I issued the ionstruction to format that drive,l but got the response that it could not be formatted because it is write protected. How can I remove the write protection of...

To fafhrd: I will try the 3 time repair and see if that helps. Will follow your helpful notes carefully. Since you are in England, It would be convenient if I could call you if I get stuck. Thanks Waldie

To Pancool, I treid F8 and it did not do anything. Just continued to boot into a failing F8. I did not install Win8 using any DVD. I downloaded the installation from MS. No media involved. Thanks Waldie

Jimbo45, Please have a glance at my posting of yesterday about the disaster I encountered and see if you think you might be able to help me. I would like to be able to call you for a conversation on the subject. Waldie

On my 64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate computer, I used a guide from CNET to install Windows 8 Preview Release. I first shrunk a partition, formatted it, named it a simple directory (K), put the MS download assistant on it and ran it as an administrator, so that the installation would be downloaded to...