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I tried to update my Win8 Pro via the Win8 Store and it downloaded, proceeded to Applying Changes > Gathering info > Preparing to restart
and than : error 0x80004005; install cancelled.
No explanation why it did not do the restart. I tried it several times because initially I started everything while continuing work in a desktop application. Than I tried it with a restart w/o desktop. Same result.
So I am stuck with Win8 until there is a solution that does not require a clean install where I have to re-install all my software again. No way...
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At the moment I am downloading the 8.1 image as per instructions found on
http://superuser.com/questions/661261/windows-8-1-fresh-install-with-windows-8-licence?rq=1
and the instruction were briliantly correct!
Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!
After days and days and days of drama. This is awesome. Thanks!
Not so easy!
My Drive C is one Partition, active and is also my Windows Boot partition but I am still at Error 0x80004005.
OK, not 63 downloads although it feels like it! To-morrow will be Day 7 and, if I am lucky, I will be up and running with 8.1 but....
At the moment I am downloading the 8.1 image as per instructions found on
http://superuser.com/questions/661261/windows-8-1-fresh-install-with-windows-8-licence?rq=1
and the instruction were briliantly correct!
But whether I will have more success with the 8.1 Pro image??? Time will tell!
So just set the Win8 partition to active, don't reboot, then install the upgrade?
Just to finalize my experience:
After 63 downloads and installation of Win8 updates the store finally showed the 8.1 upgrade. The whole process of downloading and installing to 8.1 took about 3 hours but now I am running 8.1
For me setting the win8 partition to Active did the trick but I had to start from scratch.
Now the long road of re-installing all my software again begins. At least I get rid of some accumulated clutter :-)
Carrying on from my earlier entries.
My system uses Win 8 and Win 7 Dual Boot.
Both partitions are on the same disk.
Win8 is the first partition on the drive and is the master boot partition, but I still had error code 0x80004005.
I copied the Win8 partition to another disk and removed dual boot.
I downloaded Win8.1 from scratch but still got the 0x80004005 error.
I think I am going to give up on Win8.1 unless Microsoft can come up with a fix.
