Windows 8.1 Slow Install

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Started over an hour ago, setup seems to be stuck on 88%.....

I'll give it a little longer then I'll restart, this is ridiculous.
 
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Remember that you are doing an in-place upgrade which always take longer than a fresh install which makes used of disk imaging technology to speed the whole process up.
 
I gave up, was about 20% downloaded after a couple of hours.

Tried the Enterprise site with my work credentials, and that's downloading at around 200k/sec and frequently drops the download. I guess the content delivery servers are getting battered!
 
LOL been installing past 45 min and still at applying pc settings 3 %, i7-3770K 4.6 GHz, Was stuck at 78 % almost 30 min. Have a lot programs. Corsair SSD.
 
From start to finish mine took 3 hours that's on a VM with an i5 iMac. A case of to slow to die sudden. I quickly reinstalled Classic Shell too. One click of the new start button and all it does is take you back to that dreadful Modern UI - I don't think so.
 
Think my Razer Blade R2 took about 2 hours to do the upgrade.
Best bit being when the license agreement came up and my keyboard and trackpad didn't work...

Anyhow all sorted now, but I do have a message telling me that SecureBoot isn't configured correctly.
Any easy way to fix that?
 
Got my upgrade lats night 3.6GB download, was quite quick to download. Installation was 10-15 mins.

I have heard that its slower for machines with lots of programs and apps on them. I formatted a few weeks ago so I am pretty clean.
 
I began downloading it at midnight. Ages later I paused the download and shutdown the PC. I restarted the PC about an hour ago, went into W8 and although the left mouse button menu was there and when I went to the Store it told me the windows 8.1 was installed but I went into SYStem and it still said Windows 8.1. I rebooted trying to eliminate this. When I rebooted, it went into the setup process. It took all of 6 minutes from start to finish.
I7 3770K @4.2GHZ
16GB Kingston HyperX 120GB SSD Plus other OS's and 3TB Slave data drive.
I suppose it pays to be patient.
My advice is to what I have done. Pause the download and shutdown. Reboot and let windows 8 sort itself out. Check in the store that it has downloaded and restart.
 
This is going to be a real pain, every time you want to undertake a fresh install of windows without having an ISO handy. Make me think, maybe better to spend a little extra time now, undertake a fresh install of windows 8, update to windows 8.1, then make a backup / backup image.
 
Well it's installed, it took around two and a half hours to install.

The good

It managed to free up almost 9GB on my C drive which surprised me

The start button is useful right click functions

The Bad

Drivers!

Creative drivers need me to change audio mode or install and remove headphones to get the sound working, weird.

nvidia display driver so far has needed re-installing after every restart, I also had this issue with windows 8 around 6 months ago and thought it was fixed.

PhilGQ said:
Got my upgrade lats night 3.6GB download, was quite quick to download. Installation was 10-15 mins.

I have heard that its slower for machines with lots of programs and apps on them. I formatted a few weeks ago so I am pretty clean.
Click to expand...

I did have allot installed, infact it's an upgrade from Windows 7 so this machine hasnt seen a fresh install in maybe 3 years. :D
 
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