Hi I recently purchased Windows 8 (12/12/2012), I d/l'ed it and made an ISO and DVD, I installed it onto an SSD and kept my HDD as a back up and storage device.
Today my second SSD arrived and I installed it as a RAID 0 with my other SSD, all went well until I started having windows update failures, one after the other they all seemed to be corrupted or something, I was installing the large files individually and the smaller ones in batches of 3-5, then my drives were not recognised, I had "missing OS" errors and "locked drives" and "partition missing" errors.
Windows Update completely ruined my drives, I spent 12+ hours trying to get them sorted which I eventually did.
After I installed my OS I saw a logo in the bottom right hand corner of my desktop "Windows 8 Pro Build 9200" this wasn't there the first time I installed windows 8, then I got a message from the action centre asking me to validate my OS, although I had entered the product key during the installation. It failed, it said my copy of windows was only for "upgrade" and not for a "clean" install.
What can I do?
Today my second SSD arrived and I installed it as a RAID 0 with my other SSD, all went well until I started having windows update failures, one after the other they all seemed to be corrupted or something, I was installing the large files individually and the smaller ones in batches of 3-5, then my drives were not recognised, I had "missing OS" errors and "locked drives" and "partition missing" errors.
Windows Update completely ruined my drives, I spent 12+ hours trying to get them sorted which I eventually did.
After I installed my OS I saw a logo in the bottom right hand corner of my desktop "Windows 8 Pro Build 9200" this wasn't there the first time I installed windows 8, then I got a message from the action centre asking me to validate my OS, although I had entered the product key during the installation. It failed, it said my copy of windows was only for "upgrade" and not for a "clean" install.
What can I do?
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 64 bit
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Home Built
- CPU
- Intel Core i7-3770K @3.5hz
- Motherboard
- EVGA Z77 FTW
- Memory
- Kingston Technology 16GB (2x 8GB) 2133MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL11 DIMM XMP HyperX Predator Series Memory M
- Graphics Card(s)
- EVGA GTX 670 4gb
- Sound Card
- N/A
- Monitor(s) Displays
- HP w2007v
- Screen Resolution
- 1680x1050
- Hard Drives
- OCZ Vertex 4 SSD 128GB
SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD502HJ 500GB 7200 RPM
- PSU
- Enermax Platinax EPM1000EWT Special OC Edition
- Case
- Cooler Master HAF Full Tower nVIDIA Edition
- Cooling
- CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Plus
- Keyboard
- HP
- Mouse
- Corsair Vengeance M90
- Internet Speed
- 10MB
- Other Info
- ASUS DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS Black SATA 24X DVD Burner