On Sun, 2013-06-09 at 12:03 +0100, Gordon Scott wrote: > So I'll be doing a fresh install again from Win8-Pro again.
A followup on this if anyone's interested. I installed afresh from Win8-Pro. I formatted the memory stick to NTFS and using Linux, copied the recovery or restore partitions (the one with the most data) to the memory stick, then used Win8-pro to 'refresh', which appears to have recovered all the Win8 drivers, but I presume reverted to Win8-Home (how does one tell?). So then I did the upgrade to Win8-pro. Seems to have gone OK. It all now dual boots again as intended, and the broken bit (the touch-screen) works again in both OSs. Incidently, I had a lot of trouble when trying to restore/refresh because the partition with Win8: "Is locked. Please unlock and try again". But with no clues _how_ to unlock. I searched the web for ages, but none of the 'solutions' I found made any difference. After I gave that up and tried to install Win8-pro, the installer said the partition had been "something (locked/reserved?) by the OEM", which presumably was my 'locked' problem. I just deleted the partition. After that I could install OK. What a pigs ear of a process. All those hours of messing about just for two applications that aren't on Linux and the occasional 'does my code work on Win8?" check. Gordon. -- Please post to: [email protected] Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
