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the jolly roger
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so i cannot do a fresh install of 8.1 on my new rig, i select the usb drive as boot option 1 and then i get the splash screen with the windows logo and the little balls that go around in circles and it either:

 

A. stays in that screen

B. freezes

 

plz help, i formatted the usb using fat32 and created a partition and all that stuff before copying the files from my dvd.

 

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so i cannot do a fresh install of 8.1 on my new rig, i select the usb drive as boot option 1 and then i get the splash screen with the windows logo and the little balls that go around in circles and it either:

 

A. stays in that screen

B. freezes

 

plz help, i formatted the usb using fat32 and created a partition and all that stuff before copying the files from my dvd.

 

Try the USB drive in another PC.

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Its probably just a bad download or a bad copy to the drive.

 

Instead of doing all the processes on your own, use the Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool to mount the ISO.

 

Also if you have a actual product key, you can go get it off of Microsoft's direct download.  It will install a program on the machine that downloads the ISO needed, checks the ISO for corruption once its downloaded, then mounts it to a DVD, USB Drive, or saves it as a ISO, then after that it continues to check the finished product for corruption.  All of this with a simple "Next; Next; I Agree; Sure why not; Done" Interface.

 

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-8/upgrade-product-key-only

Please spend as much time writing your question, as you want me to spend responding to it.  Take some time, and explain your issue, please!

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Its probably just a bad download or a bad copy to the drive.

 

Instead of doing all the processes on your own, use the Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool to mount the ISO.

 

Also if you have a actual product key, you can go get it off of Microsoft's direct download.  It will install a program on the machine that downloads the ISO needed, checks the ISO for corruption once its downloaded, then mounts it to a DVD, USB Drive, or saves it as a ISO, then after that it continues to check the finished product for corruption.  All of this with a simple "Next; Next; I Agree; Sure why not; Done" Interface.

 

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-8/upgrade-product-key-only

i used the tool and nothing

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i used the tool and nothing

#1 I gave you 2 tools to check out. 

 

#2 we have to have more info than that to go off of.

Please spend as much time writing your question, as you want me to spend responding to it.  Take some time, and explain your issue, please!

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#1 I gave you 2 tools to check out. 

 

#2 we have to have more info than that to go off of.

ok, i used the first one that downloads and creates the media for me and nothing, and i also downloaded the .iso file and mounted it using the windows 7 usb/dvd tool and nothing, aswell as using a usb dvd reader using the original 64bit dvd and still nothing, i think ill just call geek squad

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Okay, have fun with the $100+ installation charge...  (plus no telling how much they are going to charge you for another part)

Please spend as much time writing your question, as you want me to spend responding to it.  Take some time, and explain your issue, please!

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Do you have a network cable plugged in while installing?  If you do maybe unplug it until you've finished the install, could be it's having an issue getting an ip or something.

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