http://superuser.com/questions/661311/windows-8-1-upgrade-fails-with-error-code-0xc1900101-0x20017
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Windows 8.1 flop
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http://superuser.com/questions/661311/windows-8-1-upgrade-fails-with-error-code-0xc1900101-0x20017
Do you have drive encryption enabled?
Nope, no windows disk encryption. Now the world knows. The world will now steal my steam games and 30 gigs of mission planning maps have fun with that.
Someone else mentioned the partition numbers being an issue
this may be a possibility:
1) 200MB EFI system partition
2) 196GB OSX Partition
3) 620MB system partition ???
4) 280GB NTFS Windows Partition
I don't know if that is true, but being this is a partition related issue, I can believe that it could be the cause. This also means pain just to fix. Don't know what is on the 620MB partition of mine thought it may be the restore partition. Keep the feedback coming.
I would have stayed with 7 had microsoft embraced it more and kept it as an improving software.
1) 200MB EFI system partition
2) 196GB OSX Partition
3) 620MB system partition ???
4) 280GB NTFS Windows Partition
I don't know if that is true, but being this is a partition related issue, I can believe that it could be the cause. This also means pain just to fix. Don't know what is on the 620MB partition of mine thought it may be the restore partition. Keep the feedback coming.
I would have stayed with 7 had microsoft embraced it more and kept it as an improving software.
Can you post the link to where you got that info? I don't get why partition sizes would be an issue.
Also, it seems that they pulled the RT update. Maybe they will fix it, then fix the pro update as well.
Partition number, not partition size, and it's a bootcamp limit so if windows for some reason does some weird partition adjustments before the install, that may cause it with my scheme.
http://sidecar.twocanoes.com/forums...booting-windows-from-first-four-partitions/p1
Ahh, I see. This is what mine looks like on my 2011 Imac with boot camp 4:
DISKPART> list partition
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Primary 200 MB 512 B
Partition 2 Primary 418 GB 200 MB
Partition 3 Primary 619 MB 418 GB
Partition 4 Primary 512 GB 418 GB
DISKPART>
I don't know what's on that 620 partition (I'm rounding), osx does not see it. I'm about to do a wipe and proceed through a full install starting with windows 8 and see how it works. I'll probably have 8.1 installed or failed by tonight.
I'd like to do this as well. Is there a way to back up my windows and reinstall everything like time machine does? I had some one install software on my computer through logmein and really don't want to bother them again if I do a fresh install. I know there's winclone, but that does work with fresh install does it?
Not in the same way. Your options for backup is entire through winclone, which will not work in our case, or back up steam and all the games, then back up your user profile folder by drag and drop. Simple, but you will have to reinstall everything you had this way.
Ok, guess if the new install works to get me to 8.1 I'll just have to bug that person again to reinstall the software I need. I'll wait n see if that works for someone else first
I've got a friend that's furious right now as his Samsung Series 7 will only boot to a black screen with the cursor. Apparently it's a bad Intel HD 4000 driver causing the issue and he had to downgrade to an older version which causes the screen to blank out every minute or so. Needless to say he's beyond mad.
Yes, but from within Windows. If you can boot to Windows just do a System Image Backup (Control Panel) and select only the Bootcamp Drive. Then restore from within Windows. In Windows 8 it is called Windows 7 Recovery, Windows 8.1 calls it File History.
I finished backing my stuff up, downloaded the windows 8 iso using the upgrade key I got for 7 to go to 8. I'll get this finished by tomorrow, but will take some notes to see what the partition should look like since I doubt I'll be able to find someone who hasn't upgraded yet. I am about to take the family on a walk and will wipe out bootcamp and start fresh after that. This will fail if I cannot install windows 8 in a trial period like in the past.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/19/dont-bother-trying-to-upgrade-to-windows-rt-8-1-today/
Looks like a lot of people are having the boot config issue. Its just my luck that they pulled RT not Pro like I need. Hopefully they fix RT then apply the fix to pro soon.
Looks like a lot of people are having the boot config issue. Its just my luck that they pulled RT not Pro like I need. Hopefully they fix RT then apply the fix to pro soon.
Cool wasn't sure if that's how that worked, seen it. So just reinstall windows and go back to that (file history I guess) and it'll give me an option to restore?
I'm back, doing three techniques to install,
1) Reinstall windows 8 preserving everything, then installing 8.1
2) Reinstall Windows 8 preserving only personal files, then up to 8.1
3) Reinstall windows 8 while preserving nothing, then up to 8.1
4) Wipe bootcamp and start again (note to self, my BC partition is 300GB)
I'm on step one now…backed everything up just in case.
After doing the update, I decided to restart due to how horrible the windows partitioning scheme is working. I got another error and just don't want to deal with that problem anymore. I'll try a fresh install.
1) Reinstall windows 8 preserving everything, then installing 8.1
2) Reinstall Windows 8 preserving only personal files, then up to 8.1
3) Reinstall windows 8 while preserving nothing, then up to 8.1
4) Wipe bootcamp and start again (note to self, my BC partition is 300GB)
I'm on step one now…backed everything up just in case.
After doing the update, I decided to restart due to how horrible the windows partitioning scheme is working. I got another error and just don't want to deal with that problem anymore. I'll try a fresh install.
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Very curious to see what happens.
So if doing a fresh install, can we use the windows 7 file recovery or whatever it is to restore our apps/stuff?
If you do a fresh install, you will lose your apps. Due to a partition compatibility issue I suspect was caused by the original windows 7 install, I'm trying to just bypass that and start with windows 8. I had to handwrite the partition after upgrading from 7 to 8. I hope to avoid this. I'm about to burn the image I downloaded
can't just mount it to reinstall bootcamp after wiping bootcamp out.
I upgraded from windows 7 to 8 then 8.1 and all went fine, and I can confirm that 200% dpi scaling works correctly on rMBP finally, no every thng is the correct size and pin sharp. Old programs that harp back tin Windows 95 scaled without blur, they might be a little blocky (1400x900 ish) but pin sharp.
Perfect.
Perfect.
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