Win 8.1 will not install... rolls back every time

Raw · Dec 17, 2014

What the hell is going on?
Win 8.1 will not install... rolls back every time I try to install it over Win 8.
Yes, Win 7 and 8 are installed, activated and updated.

This is on a brand new and fresh installed hard drive. I started out with Win 7 installation, went through all the Win 7 updates, then did the same for Win 8.

All seems well after doing this (time consuming for sure...) I mean, there's like 170 Win 7 updates and 100 something Win 8 updates, geezus.

I get to 8.1 and go through the entire slow process, it goes all the way to 100% complete then bombs out and does the roll back thing. Which takes forever to roll back, too.
I've tried this 3 times already and am about to give up.
I'll be 90 years old before I get done, if I get done.
Any suggestions? This is driving me nuts.

** update\
NVM... I finally got it to take. I don't know how or why, it took on the 4th. attempt and seems to be working ok. What a hassle.
Thanks anyways.

BarbaricSoul · Dec 17, 2014

I never bothered with updates myself when doing a fresh install/upgrade. Well, not until I got to the final Windows build I was planning on using.

Raw · Dec 17, 2014

BarbaricSoul said:
I never bothered with updates myself when doing a fresh install/upgrade. Well, not until I got to the final Windows build I was planning on using.

Well, Windows forced me do certain updates to get from version to version?
How did you bypass that or am I not understanding you?

BarbaricSoul · Dec 17, 2014

I haven't done it since when 7 was new. So for me it was XP>Vista>7

newtekie1 · Dec 17, 2014

I just do a clean Windows 8.1 install...

Raw · Dec 17, 2014

newtekie1 said:
I just do a clean Windows 8.1 install...

Don't know if I could have just done a clean install with 8.1 as I would have needed a serial number. I say that and I may be confused here but I needed to get at least ver. 8 on it which I do have a serial number for, so I could get 8.1 as a free upgrade.
I probably didn't need to bother putting 7 on first,

newtekie1 · Dec 18, 2014

http://www.howtogeek.com/187525/how-to-perform-a-clean-install-of-windows-8.1-with-a-windows-8-key/

Raw · Dec 18, 2014

newtekie1 said:
http://www.howtogeek.com/187525/how-to-perform-a-clean-install-of-windows-8.1-with-a-windows-8-key/

That is an awesome link newtekie1, thanks so much for a future reference. MS had to make things so complicated...

Raovac · Dec 19, 2014

Thanks for the link

This will make upgrading more pleasant

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