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Cannot Create Recovery Drive in Windows 8.1

Seasons Greetings all, I’ve tried to search other related posts on creating a recovery drive in Windows 8.1 but was not able to get past my current state. I am using Windows 8.1 Pro upgraded from 8. I...

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Trouble upgrading from win 8 to 8.1

I have tried several times (approx 20) to upgrade my HP desktop from win 8 (came pre-installed) to 8.1 Everything is fine until I get to approx 72%, then the computer freezes. I've let it set, once for...

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Installing Windows 8.1 on 2nd HD makes it a multi-boot?

How exactly does this work? In the past I installed Windows 8.1 with Windows 7 on an old HD. I forgot exactly what I did, but it turned into a multi-boot prompting startup. Then I found out later on...

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BIOS Boot Options Missing

Hi all, I am running Win 8.1 Pro on an ASUS laptop N56VJ that originally had Win 8. It was updated to 8.1 quite some time ago. In preparation to do a clean install of Win 8.1 I noticed that the only...

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HP Laptop Recovery Problem

I completed Recovery with recovery DVD's. When I press the Power-On button and PC Boots up its not starting Windows 8. Instead its showing Error Screen with Recovery Manager written on top of the box,...

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Replace Win8.1 w/ Bing OS

I have been doing a lot of research and have not found a definite answer so far. I have a HP laptop that has Win8.1 with Bing operating system. I want to replace the OS (clean install). If I purchase a...

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Windows 8 error and I'm stumped

My father in-law's computer is a HP 2000. Originally running Windows 8 but he upgraded to Windows 10. Now he's getting an 0xc0000225 error code a blue recovery screen. No copies of Windows available,...

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Old Pavilion Laptop Restored To Windows 8 Pro (Cracked?)

Hello, So I had this laptop that I bought 5 years ago (Created my forum account on it. Really brings back memories lol!). I don't exactly remember when but it was on windows 8.1 but I upgraded it to...

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