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    Solved Windows 8 to 8 Pro Fails on 2 new Gateway computers

    Success! Thanks all for your help, and DavidY for the solution! Much appreciated!
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    Solved Windows 8 to 8 Pro Fails on 2 new Gateway computers

    I just tried that on both computers, remotely, and it looks like it's working! It accepted my key and started working, and then rebooted. Hopefully, in just a few they'll show back up again in my remote software, and we'll be done! Woo Hoo!
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    Solved Windows 8 to 8 Pro Fails on 2 new Gateway computers

    Why NO, I hadn't tried that! Thank you very much, reading up now.
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    Solved Windows 8 to 8 Pro Fails on 2 new Gateway computers

    Hmm, it doesn't seem to want me to burn discs, but it relies on a recovery partition... there's 4 parts on this disc... It will let me burn a drivers disc though... I'm thinking that the best thing to do is to wipe the disc clean and start fresh, but I've got to make sure that the drivers disc...
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    Solved Windows 8 to 8 Pro Fails on 2 new Gateway computers

    Nothing, both systems seem super clean. I did also try doing a windows 8 "reset" and that failed, too.. I wonder if I need to create the media discs that come with the computer? I haven't messed with Gateways in a while...
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    Solved Windows 8 to 8 Pro Fails on 2 new Gateway computers

    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...
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    Can't install any printer drivers, even from Windows Updat

    Hello, I helped a friend upgrade his work computer from Windows 7 to 8. It mostly all went well except for two problems: 1. It doesn't want to run login scripts for their Windows SBS 2011 server, and 2. It won't recognize any printer we try to install. I unjoined it from the network, and...
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    SqlExpress doesn't like my Dell and Advanced Format HDD

    Hello, I'm not sure if this is the best location on this forum for this post, but I'm hoping someone can help! I'm running Win 8, upgraded from Win 7, and I first noticed that I could not run LocalDB when I tried to create my first LightSwitch app in VS 2012. The error reported there is that...
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    Solved Windows Update never completes, no error given

    Awwww, crud! I figured it out by reading that danged logfile for myself! I noticed a reference to my Win 2003 server, "SUPPORT1:8530", which I suddenly recognized as a long-since failed and removed installation of WSUS, so I searched out my registry, and removed all references to it, and...
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    Solved Windows Update never completes, no error given

    Can you believe that it's been searching for updates since I posted this yesterday, and has still not "failed"? But I checked the log, and it is 3100 lines long, and spans from 8/28, when I upgraded, until current... Should I post that whole thing?
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    Is there a way to legally activate Windows 8 RTM?

    Actually, I reccomend the MS Action Pack, which is only $399 / year for 10 licenses each of Windows and Office! Assuming, of course, that you do IT work as part of your regular line of business.
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    Solved Windows Update never completes, no error given

    Hello, I've got a Dell xps computer that was originally running Win 7 64 bit, and then the harddrive failed, I imaged it to a new harddrive, which turned out to be an Advanced Format drive, and then I upgraded to Win 8 because I had some problems which I had attributed to corrupted Windows...
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