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system32\winload.efi Status 0xC0000428 error

Somehow Windows installed Windows Boot Manager after I altered my "boot from devices" order in my bios. The two options displayed in Boot Manager are: -Windows Setup -Windows 8 -when I choose Windows...

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Solved Apps from the Windows Store will not OPEN!!!

Hey anyone who can help feel free to do so: This is my first post on the windows 8 forums, and I was looking for help with this issue. I downloaded the Microsoft solitaire collection from the windows...

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Dual boot: W7 restarts instead of direct booting

Hi When W8´s menue apears on start and I choose W7 - instead of loading W7directly , the computer is new-starting again and only than starts w7. Thats a funny "behaviour"....Does anybody have an idee...

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Win 8 to Win 8 Pro

Greetings. Recently I've bought a notebook with pre-installed Windows 8 basic monolingual edition. Now I realise that I do need some Windows 8 Pro features like Hyper-V and EFS for my system...

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Help! - Deleted driver partition

So, I got my new Acer yesterday with Swedish Win8 OEM installed. Not accustomed to Win8 yet I decided to install Win7 instead and booted my Win7 USB (changed to Legacy from UEFI in order to do so)....

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Error upgrading win7 to win8

When I run setup I get this message: "Something happened We can't tell if your PC is ready to continue installing windows 8. Try restarting setup" What can I do?

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Solved ESD-TO-ISO Won't Work in Win8 Pro: Try It 4 Me?

To the extent you need clarification concerning my request below, please read from about post #35 in this thread...

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reinstall os on new HD?

Recently I installed windows 8 on my computer. The license is though school and Microsoft's dreamspark, it's good through my time at school. (2 years still) I put the OS on an older hard drive I had...

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Solved Where can I get a Windows 8 Pro x654 ISO file?

I purchased a Windows 8 Pro x64 Installation DVD from Staples for $ 69.95 back in late October 2012 but I have never been able to get Windows 8 to do the upgrade. I tried everything a person with 22...

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Solved Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media

My PC is a custom build with a 1TB HDD. Today, I removed a hard drive from my PC, containing Windows 7 which wasn't being used at all. The HDD in my PC currently has Windows 8 installed. It booted from...

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Windows 8 Setup Error

Hi, I am trying to run (as Administrator) the Windows 8 Setup program to download & then transfer the ISO to a USB but keep getting this error after entering the product key. "*We can't connect...

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Upgrade to Pro 64 Bit from 7 Ultimate 64 Bit Fails

Title says it. Sorry if there has already been a thread, I've tried everything, and it seems nothing works. Makes it to 72 percent on "Keep files, settings and apps", "Keep files" and "Nothing". Can...

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Dual boot problem

I have setup my computer with four separate hard drives. two of the drives are installed permanently inside my machine and are use as a data drives. For booting I use two separate disks in a drawer,...

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how to interchange the partitions of Win 7 & 8???

hey last week i dual booted win 7 n 8. now i am running out of space in the drive which contains win8.:( win7 is installed on C drive and win8 on D drive. Now can anybody please tell me can i...

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Tried reset and reinstall, setup restart never end

I tried to run "Reset and reinstall windows" when I found out that "keep nothing" is not a clean install. However, the reinstallation part (Windows setup, with the serial number part) starts over and...

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need some Q&A in w8 set up please

laptop arrived today preinstalled with w8 home, not started on it yet can you answer these points please before i start [i have spend last couple of weeks reading up on w8 in prep] 1] last min chage of...

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Installation Win8 problem...

Hello, I have a big problem.I have tried to install on my laptop window 8.The problem is that when i want to instal OS, i have found that i have 2 primary disks.i have deleted the C:, but there is also...

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Unable to boot to disc

So I was having problems getting to the boot menu of my Lenovo G580 laptop earlier (http://www.eightforums.com/general-support/20122-lenovo-wont-boot-disc-no-option-splash-screen.html). I figured out...

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Dual Boot Win7 & 8 problems - Windows 8 won't start

Hoping someone can help me. I have a ASUS P5Q Pro with the Intel raid chipset. I had Windows 7 on a RAID1 mirror (2 drives), Windows on a C partition and my files on another partition. I bought the...

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Windows 8 Pro x64 Upgrade ISO file found Thanks

Thank you Windows 8 Forum A BIG "Thank You" to all the “responsible” people in the Windows 8 forum, who provided correct and meaningful information about Windows 8 in the varioius subjects. The...

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