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Hello again after getting some help with a no bootup problem I'm going to get some help with 64 bit windows 8.1 professional edition not installing. Now here's what happened. After the install button coming up i inserted the product key it had a went to prepare the files fire installation for about 6 hours it then fails and j was forced to force shut down my computer i restated it and then it was just a black screen with a white bar like it was ready to type old code. Here are the specs if it matters http://pcpartpicker.com/p/8MtTZL

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did you format the HDD before installing windows?

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Installing from USB or Optical?

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did you make sure your bios settings are ok 

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Installing from USB or Optical?

 

This^

 

Also, are you plugging it in to a USB 2.0 or 3.0?

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This^

 

Also, are you plugging it in to a USB 2.0 or 3.0?

 ^ This is a good point... if you are installing from USB make sure that you have it plugged into USB 2.0, NOT USB 3.0... I cant tell you the number of times that I have made that mistake.

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 ^ This is a good point... if you are installing from USB make sure that you have it plugged into USB 2.0, NOT USB 3.0... I cant tell you the number of times that I have made that mistake.

I had that USB 2.0/3.0 issue on MSI boards, if it were an ASUS board, you literally have to plug it in to the USB 3.0 to boot from it, and then once it loaded the installation window, I had to remove it from a USB 3.0 and plug it to a 2.0 otherwise it'd tell me installation files were missing.

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did you format the HDD before installing windows?

No

 

Installing from USB or Optical?

Optical drive

 

did you make sure your bios settings are ok 

 

They appear so

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No

A new HDD needs to be formatted to NTFS or AHCI before you put anything on it. This is why it is failing.

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A new HDD needs to be formatted to NTFS or AHCI before you put anything on it. This is why it is failing.

ntfs or ahci? what now 

edit: no it does not NEED to be formatted its recomended but not needed 

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A new HDD needs to be formatted to NTFS or AHCI before you put anything on it. This is why it is failing.

Windows formats the target drive during the install process.

 

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Make sure you are booting via UEFI not BIOS. Follow the instructions here: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2328-uefi-unified-extensible-firmware-interface-install-windows-8-a.html

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A new HDD needs to be formatted to NTFS or AHCI before you put anything on it. This is why it is failing.

 

 

ntfs or ahci? what now 

edit: no it does not NEED to be formatted its recomended but not needed 

 

I booted up my computer again now the installation gets to the part where you select the drive you want to install and Ive come across this problem http://imgur.com/zZJyWaG

 

Note this is happening on both drives and I didnt Partition them myself I dont know how those got there

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I booted up my computer again now the installation gets to the part where you select the drive you want to install and Ive come across this problem http://imgur.com/zZJyWaG

follow this:

 

Windows formats the target drive during the install process.

 

To the OP:

Make sure you are booting via UEFI not BIOS. Follow the instructions here: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2328-uefi-unified-extensible-firmware-interface-install-windows-8-a.html

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I booted up my computer again now the installation gets to the part where you select the drive you want to install and Ive come across this problem http://imgur.com/zZJyWaG

 

Note this is happening on both drives and I didnt Partition them myself I dont know how those got there

That is where you're supposed to format the drive. Click 'format' first.

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That is where you're supposed to format the drive. Click 'format' first.

No. He has to delete the MBR partitions because he in installing on a UEFI system.

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That is where you're supposed to format the drive. Click 'format' first.

 

 

No. He has to delete the MBR partitions because he in installing on a UEFI system.

 

Can somebody point me to which one is correct?

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That is where you're supposed to format the drive. Click 'format' first.

like @ionbasa said clicking format will do jack shit and personaly i would just "clean" the disk to do this i think you need to click on repair this computer before clicking install on this pc then let it do its thing after it couldnt find anything click finish or cancel then you will come to a menu where you can select some crap the click on command line interface after you got a little black windows type in "diskpart" then click enter after its done type "list disk" then it should say something along the lines of disk 0 space=bla etc etc the type "sel disk 0" then type "clean" and when its done just restart the computer and try to install windows 

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Can somebody point me to which one is correct?

If you read: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2328-uefi-unified-extensible-firmware-interface-install-windows-8-a.html

You will realize that you have to delete all the partitions. Formatting won't help as that drive has an MBR partition layout instead of a GPT Disk layout.

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If you read: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2328-uefi-unified-extensible-firmware-interface-install-windows-8-a.html

You will realize that you have to delete all the partitions. Formatting won't help as that drive has an MBR partition layout instead of a GPT Disk layout.

I apparently have 2 UEFI systems http://imgur.com/8g0kpH7 help?

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I apparently have 2 UEFI systems http://imgur.com/8g0kpH7 help?

Select "UEFI: (FAT) ASUS    drw-24b1st   c"

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Select "UEFI: (FAT) ASUS    drw-24b1st   c"

After doing so, it went to copying window files and then this came up http://imgur.com/ChWFD09

 

Note: Nevermind that, my fault

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After doing so, it went to copying window files and then this came up http://imgur.com/ChWFD09

 

Note: Nevermind that, my fault

Ok, so did everything install properly? If it did, make sure to mark this thread as solved.

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Ok, so did everything install properly? If it did, make sure to mark this thread as solved.

 

Im not sure it still says 'Getting files ready for installation' and its at 34% and its been about 3-4 hours

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Im not sure it still says 'Getting files ready for installation' and its at 34% and its been about 3-4 hours

 

How did you obtain the Windows install? Is it a OEM disk?

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