Win 8 problem

[kirisute]

check your sata cable first!

sat cables are awful things and will throw errors even if they only slightly have a loose connection...

this all sounds like disk issues rather than Windows 8 issues; so the cable is my first thought....swap cable if you can, and if you can also swap sata port and reboot

 

might also be caused by bad ram.....drop a ram chip out and test with just one stick

[chesters1]

Its not just the main drive although it sees the image on my usb drive after 10 mins of trying to do a image back onto the main drive it comes up with a cannot find the image file report and sticks its fingers up.

Will try another cable i just find its strange it installs without errors then gets naughty

Cannot find how to do a memory test within the bios its seems there no long boot option

[kirisute]

the image file from the usb drive will drop out as soon as you get to installing the usb drivers I would think...

don't bother with memory tests; just drop a stick out and test

 

where did the image come from? are you sure your actual image is clean? why don't you just reinstall direct from dvd?

[chesters1]

I did do an install from disk the image was from that last night when it was working fine

Looks like its a wonky disk but trying to reformat C: under win8 i got a very strange error ,it wouldnt install onto the existing partition so i removed it then tried to reinstate it ,couldnt format it it came up with a error: 0xac91bc60

Which i cannot find online

It also said it couldnt install to an MBR disk only a UFI???? One ,this never occured sunday it went straight ahead formatting etc.

Strangely booting off the win7 dvd its fine with everything and touch wood is installing ,most queer

 

I thought the problem sunday morning was because i did an upgrade rather than a full install ,so sunday morning when it went tits up i formatted c: and did a clean install then last night when win8 was fully updated i did a image

 

When win7 has (looks good so far ) installed i shall grab the error text from drive e where it said it put one i think it was from its attempted repair but theres been so many i forget

 

Windows 7 didnt recognise kts product key as usual but i have lift off

Service pak (wink) going in

Edited May 13, 2013 by chesters1