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Thanks guys, I will get back when it's done. It may take a few days. Bob

Disclaimers: Mods, if I this thread would be better in another sub forum could you please shift this for me. I am technically competent but lack match practice here. I am a former TechNet member and all I ever did to upgrade was nuke and install. I'm a believer in clean installs. I have a...

I have a Medion E7220 MD98740 laptop from Aldi (the German supermarket chain). It has an AR8151 gigabit Ethernet adapter. Under Win 7 it worked OK at 1 Gigabit but under Win 8 the best I can get is 100 M bits / second. I can't even force it up to 1 Gigabit as the setting for that is not even...

Eddy, you have not provided enough info for anyone to help you. Are there any error codes on the blue screen? What drive are you installing Win 8 on? What install method are you trying? Is it a clean install or ...? One possibility is if you are installing to the SSD and you are upgrading or...

Yeah, that tip by jladwig is good. I tried that but could see no option for deleting Windows.old but I didn't know to rescan only System files. In Australia, the cost of getting ASUS to do the job was AU$200 + shipping. The whole price was heading north of $250. They were not replacing the...

NightHawk, thanks for the info. Re the possible solutions: 1: ASUS support in Melbourne Australia were only offering to reset it in their workshop 2: I tried but no solution worked 3: not possible according to ASUS support 4: I never thought of that one, I will look into it. I am capable. It...

with the PW on BIOS and boot restricted to HDD, F8 select boot was not available. That made it very difficult.

Night Hawk, I was somewhat more limited in what I could do. This machine is a laptop and sometime back (for security, lol) I changed the boot to only from HDD and then put a password on my BIOS. I forgot the PW and found out that ASUS wanted about AU$250 to fix it. So I have been working with no...

I had a similar problem. I couldn't delete the Windows.old folder in Win 8 Pro x86 RTM. I used the Take Ownership registry mod to take ownership of everything and it all came down to one file that would not delete by any method. I had ownership Ok but I kept getting Access Denied see the owner...