Win8 Upgrade problem

[Mellowed[_2_]]

Upgrading my Toshiba L775 Laptop with Win8 Pro. Everything seemed OK.
Have had at least 2 restarts. But now seems to be hung up. The screen
has been blank for about 2.5 hours and the HD busy light blinks about
1/second.

Not quite sure how to proceed. I could force a power-off and reboot
with the update disk in the DVD drive. In fact that is all I can think
of.

Any suggestions??

Thanks.

[VanguardLH[_2_]]

"Mellowed" wrote:

> Upgrading my Toshiba L775 Laptop with Win8 Pro. Everything seemed OK.
> Have had at least 2 restarts. But now seems to be hung up. The screen
> has been blank for about 2.5 hours and the HD busy light blinks about
> 1/second.
>
> Not quite sure how to proceed. I could force a power-off and reboot
> with the update disk in the DVD drive. In fact that is all I can think
> of.

Can you boot into Safe Mode okay? If so, login and reboot back into
normal mode and see if that works okay.

[Mellowed[_2_]]

On 10/28/2012 6:57 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
> "Mellowed" wrote:
>
>> Upgrading my Toshiba L775 Laptop with Win8 Pro. Everything seemed OK.
>> Have had at least 2 restarts. But now seems to be hung up. The screen
>> has been blank for about 2.5 hours and the HD busy light blinks about
>> 1/second.
>>
>> Not quite sure how to proceed. I could force a power-off and reboot
>> with the update disk in the DVD drive. In fact that is all I can think
>> of.
>
> Can you boot into Safe Mode okay? If so, login and reboot back into
> normal mode and see if that works okay.
>
I did a forced power off and removed the ISO disk. Upon rebooting the
upgrade attempt aborted and reverted the system to Win 7. At least I
now am at Win 7. I re-ran upgrade assistant and removed Microsoft
office 10 starter which was flagged and Microsoft Office 2000 which was
also flagged. Tomorrow when I return from my errands I will try again.

BTW, I'm replacing MS Office with Libre Office that seems to run my
Excel and Word files flawlessly.

Thanks for your response.

[R. C. White]

Hi, Mellowed.

After I burned the ISO file to DVD, I rebooted into the Win8 RTM Enterprise
Evaluation that I had been running for a month or to, just to take a look.
The ISO was still on my Drive E: (where I put all my downloads at least
temporarily). When I right-clicked on the 2.8 GB "Disk Image File",
expecting to burn it to DVD, I was surprised to see "Mount" at the top of
the context menu. I clicked that - and saw Setup.exe at the bottom of that
menu! (I don't recall having seen Mount as a choice in Win7, but it might
have been there all along; I'll have a look next time I'm in Win7.)

I clicked Setup.exe - and it ran beautifully right from my hard disk! ;<)

YMMV, but Try it, you might like it! ;<)

RC
-- --
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010)
Windows Live Mail 2012 (Build 16.4.3505.0912) in Win8


"Mellowed" wrote in message ...

On 10/28/2012 6:57 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
> "Mellowed" wrote:
>
>> Upgrading my Toshiba L775 Laptop with Win8 Pro. Everything seemed OK.
>> Have had at least 2 restarts. But now seems to be hung up. The screen
>> has been blank for about 2.5 hours and the HD busy light blinks about
>> 1/second.
>>
>> Not quite sure how to proceed. I could force a power-off and reboot
>> with the update disk in the DVD drive. In fact that is all I can think
>> of.
>
> Can you boot into Safe Mode okay? If so, login and reboot back into
> normal mode and see if that works okay.
>
I did a forced power off and removed the ISO disk. Upon rebooting the
upgrade attempt aborted and reverted the system to Win 7. At least I
now am at Win 7. I re-ran upgrade assistant and removed Microsoft
office 10 starter which was flagged and Microsoft Office 2000 which was
also flagged. Tomorrow when I return from my errands I will try again.

BTW, I'm replacing MS Office with Libre Office that seems to run my
Excel and Word files flawlessly.

Thanks for your response.

[Dave-UK]

"R. C. White" > wrote in message ecom...
> Hi, Mellowed.
>
> After I burned the ISO file to DVD, I rebooted into the Win8 RTM Enterprise
> Evaluation that I had been running for a month or to, just to take a look.
> The ISO was still on my Drive E: (where I put all my downloads at least
> temporarily). When I right-clicked on the 2.8 GB "Disk Image File",
> expecting to burn it to DVD, I was surprised to see "Mount" at the top of
> the context menu. I clicked that - and saw Setup.exe at the bottom of that
> menu! (I don't recall having seen Mount as a choice in Win7, but it might
> have been there all along; I'll have a look next time I'm in Win7.)
>

Win8 can handle ISO, VHD, and VHDX images, whereas Win7 does not.
Double-clicking an image file automatically creates a virtual disk drive,
assigns a drive letter and mounts the image.

[Gene E. Bloch[_2_]]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 08:35:54 -0000, Dave-UK wrote:

> "R. C. White" > wrote in message ecom...
>> Hi, Mellowed.
>>
>> After I burned the ISO file to DVD, I rebooted into the Win8 RTM Enterprise
>> Evaluation that I had been running for a month or to, just to take a look.
>> The ISO was still on my Drive E: (where I put all my downloads at least
>> temporarily). When I right-clicked on the 2.8 GB "Disk Image File",
>> expecting to burn it to DVD, I was surprised to see "Mount" at the top of
>> the context menu. I clicked that - and saw Setup.exe at the bottom of that
>> menu! (I don't recall having seen Mount as a choice in Win7, but it might
>> have been there all along; I'll have a look next time I'm in Win7.)
>>
>
> Win8 can handle ISO, VHD, and VHDX images, whereas Win7 does not.
> Double-clicking an image file automatically creates a virtual disk drive,
> assigns a drive letter and mounts the image.
>

I have a habit of reading things like the above and then forgetting
them.

I can just see me spending some time looking for one of the free iso
mounters once I have a Windows 8 system...

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

[Dave-UK]

"Gene E. Bloch" > wrote in message ...
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 08:35:54 -0000, Dave-UK wrote:
>
>> Win8 can handle ISO, VHD, and VHDX images, whereas Win7 does not.
>> Double-clicking an image file automatically creates a virtual disk drive,
>> assigns a drive letter and mounts the image.
>>
>
> I have a habit of reading things like the above and then forgetting
> them.
>
> I can just see me spending some time looking for one of the free iso
> mounters once I have a Windows 8 system...
>

I know what you mean!
As Confucius says:

I hear and I forget,
I see and I remember,
I do and I understand.

http://www.admin1.myzen.co.uk/iso.mp4
(4.8 M/B video)

[Gene E. Bloch[_2_]]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 04:17:06 -0000, Dave-UK wrote:

> "Gene E. Bloch" > wrote in message ...
>> On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 08:35:54 -0000, Dave-UK wrote:
>>
>>> Win8 can handle ISO, VHD, and VHDX images, whereas Win7 does not.
>>> Double-clicking an image file automatically creates a virtual disk drive,
>>> assigns a drive letter and mounts the image.
>>>
>>
>> I have a habit of reading things like the above and then forgetting
>> them.
>>
>> I can just see me spending some time looking for one of the free iso
>> mounters once I have a Windows 8 system...
>>
>
> I know what you mean!
> As Confucius says:
>
> I hear and I forget,
> I see and I remember,
> I do and I understand.
>
> http://www.admin1.myzen.co.uk/iso.mp4
> (4.8 M/B video)
>

It took a while to run the test - I had to reinstall a later version of
VMware Tools and the latest Windows 8 updates first. Then I made the iso
file available and it wouldn't mount, so I copied it into the virtual
machine; the copy mounted with a double click, as promised.

Your link confused me for a second, since it was named iso.mp4. In a
moment of disorientation, I wondered why you wanted me to copy a disk
image. I woke up quickly enough :-)

Two things about the video. Windows Explorer was set not to show
file-name extensions, which made me cringe. And at the end the narrator
talked as thought this was a new idea from Microsoft...

Now if only I could figure out how to shut Windows 8 down (I did manage,
but it took 198 clicks of the mouse).

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

[Monty]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 11:36:06 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
> wrote:
>
>Now if only I could figure out how to shut Windows 8 down (I did manage,
>but it took 198 clicks of the mouse).

Here's one option to shut down Windows 8:

1. Press Winkey + C on your keyboard.

2. In the slide-out menu (known as the Charms Bar) that appears, click
Settings.

3. Click the Power button, and then click your desired action: Sleep,
Shut down, or Update and restart.

So, there you have it. In Windows 8, it requires four actions to shut
down your PC: hover, click, click, and click.

[FD[_4_]]

Monty wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 11:36:06 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
> > wrote:
>>
>> Now if only I could figure out how to shut Windows 8 down (I did manage,
>> but it took 198 clicks of the mouse).
>


Follow these simple instruction and create a shutdown shortcut icon on your
desktop and also pin it to Start.

Problem solved!

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/quick-tip-create-shutdown-restart-lock-icons-in-windows-vista/


FD

[RonP]

FD wrote:
> Monty wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 11:36:06 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> Now if only I could figure out how to shut Windows 8 down (I did manage,
>>> but it took 198 clicks of the mouse).
>>
>
>
> Follow these simple instruction and create a shutdown shortcut icon on your
> desktop and also pin it to Start.
>
> Problem solved!
>
> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/quick-tip-create-shutdown-restart-lock-icons-in-windows-vista/
>
>
>
> FD
>

You can put a shortcut here so it's a tile:
C:\Users\YOU\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Sta rt Menu

I use ccleaner and use the shortcut "C:\Program
Files\CCleaner\CCleaner64.exe" /AUTO /SHUTDOWN and it cleans and turns
off the PC. You can designate cookies to save in options.



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[G. Morgan[_7_]]

Mellowed wrote:

>Upgrading my Toshiba L775 Laptop with Win8 Pro. Everything seemed OK.
>Have had at least 2 restarts. But now seems to be hung up. The screen
>has been blank for about 2.5 hours and the HD busy light blinks about
>1/second.
>
>Not quite sure how to proceed. I could force a power-off and reboot
>with the update disk in the DVD drive. In fact that is all I can think
>of.
>
>Any suggestions??


Next time, do not boot off the Win8 DVD. Run 'Setup' directly inside of
Win7.

[..winston]

"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message ...

> Now if only I could figure out how to shut Windows 8 down
> (I did manage,but it took 198 clicks of the mouse).
>

Other routes to shutdown

From the Start Screen
- click your user profile picture, sign out, click the shut down icon lower right, shutdown

From the Desktop
- Alt F4 Shutdown
- same route as above from the picture

[Gene E. Bloch[_2_]]

On Sat, 03 Nov 2012 21:28:36 +1100, Monty wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 11:36:06 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
> > wrote:
>>
>>Now if only I could figure out how to shut Windows 8 down (I did manage,
>>but it took 198 clicks of the mouse).
>
> Here's one option to shut down Windows 8:
>
> 1. Press Winkey + C on your keyboard.
>
> 2. In the slide-out menu (known as the Charms Bar) that appears, click
> Settings.
>
> 3. Click the Power button, and then click your desired action: Sleep,
> Shut down, or Update and restart.
>
> So, there you have it. In Windows 8, it requires four actions to shut
> down your PC: hover, click, click, and click.

Thank you and the other respondents. I've bookmarked this subthread.

The thing is, when I get more serious about this, I *will* read some
documentation. Really...

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

[Gene E. Bloch[_2_]]

On Sat, 3 Nov 2012 20:24:20 -0400, ..winston wrote:

> "Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message ...
>
>> Now if only I could figure out how to shut Windows 8 down
>> (I did manage,but it took 198 clicks of the mouse).
>>
>
> Other routes to shutdown
>
> From the Start Screen
> - click your user profile picture, sign out, click the shut down icon lower right, shutdown
>
> From the Desktop
> - Alt F4 Shutdown
> - same route as above from the picture

The first of those is the one I characterized as taking 198 clicks of
the mouse. Not that I ever exaggerate.

The problem was more that it took me 198 clicks of looking around to
finally get there.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

[R. C. White]

Hi, Winston.

After I shut down all my open apps (and be sure that grandson Charlie is
logged out of his account), I just press the hardware Power button. As soon
as I see that my screen is going blank, I hit the power buttons on my
monitor and speakers. Takes less than 15 seconds, usually, and sometimes
just 5 seconds.

Since I've always preferred to start with a clean slate each morning, rather
than return to yesterday's desktop clutter, this works very well for me.
(And since I finally learned a year or two ago, thanks to some Usenet
thread, that the Power button can be set to do an orderly Shutdown, exactly
as if I had used Win7's Start/Shut Down or Win8's Settings/Power/Shut Down
sequence.) ;<)

RC
-- --
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010)
Windows Live Mail 2012 (Build 16.4.3505.0912) in Win8


"..winston" wrote in message ...

"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message
...

> Now if only I could figure out how to shut Windows 8 down
> (I did manage,but it took 198 clicks of the mouse).
>

Other routes to shutdown

From the Start Screen
- click your user profile picture, sign out, click the shut down icon lower
right, shutdown

From the Desktop
- Alt F4 Shutdown
- same route as above from the picture

[..winston]

RC,
That's always an option for many pc's and has been for quite some time and worthy of use when Windows Power options (if necessary)
are configured to do so. I use that approach on Win7 and Win8 but hesitate to recommend it as you've explained since it usually
requires some level of qualification if other applications or files are still open prior to use.

Personally, the number of clicks to shutdown or restart has never been a concern of mine on any o/s <g>.

--
....winston
msft mvp


"R. C. White" wrote in message ecom...

Hi, Winston.

After I shut down all my open apps (and be sure that grandson Charlie is
logged out of his account), I just press the hardware Power button. As soon
as I see that my screen is going blank, I hit the power buttons on my
monitor and speakers. Takes less than 15 seconds, usually, and sometimes
just 5 seconds.

Since I've always preferred to start with a clean slate each morning, rather
than return to yesterday's desktop clutter, this works very well for me.
(And since I finally learned a year or two ago, thanks to some Usenet
thread, that the Power button can be set to do an orderly Shutdown, exactly
as if I had used Win7's Start/Shut Down or Win8's Settings/Power/Shut Down
sequence.) ;<)

RC
-- --
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010)
Windows Live Mail 2012 (Build 16.4.3505.0912) in Win8


"..winston" wrote in message ...

"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message
...

> Now if only I could figure out how to shut Windows 8 down
> (I did manage,but it took 198 clicks of the mouse).
>

Other routes to shutdown

From the Start Screen
- click your user profile picture, sign out, click the shut down icon lower
right, shutdown

From the Desktop
- Alt F4 Shutdown
- same route as above from the picture

[Dominique]

"..winston" > écrivait news:k74dd8$r2r$1@dont-
email.me:

> "Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message
...
>
>> Now if only I could figure out how to shut Windows 8 down
>> (I did manage,but it took 198 clicks of the mouse).
>>
>
> Other routes to shutdown
>
> From the Start Screen
> - click your user profile picture, sign out, click the shut down icon
lower right, shutdown
>
> From the Desktop
> - Alt F4 Shutdown
> - same route as above from the picture
>

I've installed Win8Pro last thursday (upgraded over a working installation
of Win7Pro). I looked for a while how to shut down Win8 and once I've found
out I decided to use the ALT-F4|ENTER method from the desktop, I find it to
be the fastest way.