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Win8 Upgrade problem
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. |
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"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. |
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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. |
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"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. |
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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) |
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"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message news 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) |
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On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 04:17:06 -0000, Dave-UK wrote:
"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message news 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) |
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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. |
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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/windo...windows-vista/ FD |
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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/windo...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. --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: --- |
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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. |
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"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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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