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Windows 8.1 Installation Crashing

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  • Windows 7
  • Windows 8
  • Crashing
  • Ubuntu
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October 9, 2014 12:19:05 PM

Hi there,
About a week ago, I decided that I'd finally put my memory stick with ubuntu on to use. However windows 7 didn't seem to like this as it crashed every time I booted it up. On one of the times I was lucky enough to get into Win 7, I deleted the partition that Ubuntu was on, not knowing that this really wouldn't help. So after that I tried to boot up my pc, all it did was give me grub rescue. I then tried booting a fresh install of Windows 7, but that too constantly crashed. So I decided to try and get Windows 8.1 to work, considering I've had a key for a while now, just too lazy to do something about it.

Today I tried loading up the Windows 8.1 install disk. It works until it gets up to 6%, then crashes like Windows 7 did. I tried taking the drive that had all the Ubuntu crap on before and that made no difference.

If anyone can help, that'd be great.
Thanks

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a b $ Windows 7
October 11, 2014 2:00:32 PM

Did you boot from the win8 dvd?? And change the bootdisk to the win8 dvd?
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October 11, 2014 2:02:12 PM

Paul NZ said:
Did you boot from the win8 dvd?? And change the bootdisk to the win8 dvd?


Yeah I tried that, still didn't work
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a b $ Windows 7
October 11, 2014 2:04:15 PM

So ubuntu was on this hdd and now youre trying to wipe it and install windows on it right?

I would remove the hdd put it in another system then format the whole hdd. Then try again. See if that works
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October 11, 2014 2:12:51 PM

Paul NZ said:
So ubuntu was on this hdd and now youre trying to wipe it and install windows on it right?

I would remove the hdd put it in another system then format the whole hdd. Then try again. See if that works


I've already tried wiping the ubuntu drive and formatting it. That didn't work, so I tried taking that drive out and installing it to my 2tb, but it still crashes during installation.
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a b $ Windows 7
October 11, 2014 2:15:35 PM

Is it a legit version of win8?? If its crashing what does that say??
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October 11, 2014 2:17:25 PM

Paul NZ said:
Is it a legit version of win8?? If its crashing what does that say??


Yeah it's legit, it doesn't say anything, my pc just freezes when around 7% through the installation.
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a b $ Windows 7
October 11, 2014 2:20:48 PM

Whats the model of this hdd??

Does this system support UEFI / secureboot?
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October 11, 2014 2:23:53 PM

Paul NZ said:
Whats the model of this hdd??

Does this system support UEFI / secureboot?


The 2tb? And yeah, it supports UEFI.
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a b $ Windows 7
October 11, 2014 2:31:37 PM

And is UEFI and secure enabled if Win8 is 64 bit?? Whats the model of the hard drive?

Have you tried another hdd?? Try another SATA port
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October 12, 2014 4:41:40 AM

Paul NZ said:
And is UEFI and secure enabled if Win8 is 64 bit?? Whats the model of the hard drive?

Have you tried another hdd?? Try another SATA port


I've tried 2 hard drives and neither made a difference. The other stuff wouldn't make a difference either.
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