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Today is Oct. 26 and I registered on the Microsoft site for the $14.99 upgrade to Win8 from a computer I bought after June2012. I am waiting to get an email with the downloadable file. Anyone else waiting for notification today.
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Joan,
Yes, I sent mine back in June or July.
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I just ran the Upgrade assistant to check compatibility. Looks like most everything on my system would be fine upgraded to 8. No DVD playback but I'm assuming there is something coming out of the aps that would take care of that issue. Also my touch screen All in One Asus wouldn't lose anything in the way of touch controls but wouldn't have any of the newest features that were built since I bought mine.
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Ditto on the upgrade register...
I cant help but wonder if they need to send out 100,000,000 emails
to us..... Or at least some large numbers.
I cannot even imagine server numbers and size's to handle all of the
Dloads. The server "Clouds" may rumble.
I'm buying the DVD version when notified. Won't install for a period
of time and read about its use.
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According to this Oct. 26 is the delivery date. Don S.
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So where is it? They most likely are sending them out in small segments so that everyone doesn't download at the same time.
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I'm not sure that I want it. Hopefully, it doesn't have to be an immediate install.
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Don S,
For a little bit extra they ship a DVD version to you,
as I mentioned above.
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I just got my email with product code about 3PM this afternoon. I am going to install this weekend.
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I just got my email with product code about 3PM this afternoon. I am going to install this weekend.
Did you pay when you first filed the form, or later. I haven't paid anything yet, or received anything.
Don S.
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I ran the upgrade assistant again and entered the code they emailed me. It then took me to the payment page that first starts with $39.99 and after entering the code it changes to $14.99. I entered my credit card info and they sent me the code to the download. The download will take me about 3 and a half hours. It is downloading now.
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Did as Joan, with this change, selected the DVD option.
Total came to $33.74 with shipping and tax. (DVD is $14.99)
Gonna hold off on the install for awhile.
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Thanks for starting this thread about windows 8.
I ran the latest upgrade assistant and I am no longer getting "your cpu is not compatable" that I did a few months ago, so wondering if they have dropped that requirement?
I have an AMD quad core computer with 4GB of memory.
I still want to retain my windows 7 and dual boot with 8, in fact I have two copies of windows 7 already on my computer one for online banking only and other for general surfing.
Just wondering if I was to install another clean copy of windows 7 on a different partition would it let me install windows 8 then ok on that partition and would my existing windows 7 still dual boot and product key not become deactivated?
Windows 7 came with my computer.
Thanks
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Just ordered the DVD version I prefer to have a solid back up. I'm still using XP pro so I'm hoping I won't have to faff about too much wi drivers
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I tried this morning to install Windows 8 but I don't have enough space in my C drive.
I have an Asus All in One Desktop ET2410 IUTS BO34C.
It is divided into C drive and D drive.
My C drive has 13.6 available out of 79.9 GB
My D drive has 242 GB available out of 365 GB
I tried installing Windows 8 but it needs 20 GB of space in my C Drive. All currently installed programs only make up 1.97 GB.
Can I install Windows 8 on this computer without reformatting my computer and causing lots of problems for myself?
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any stuff you could run from an external hd Joan ?
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I called Asus and they thought I could install to D drive, however, Win 8 doesn't give that option to me. I could do an F9 Recovery and create one partition on my computer which would solve my problem, but I'm not sure I want to do that even with several backups. (a system image of Win c) and an Acronis full backup of C and D.
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Joan,
As 8 is an upgrade it is probably looking to upgrade 7, so can't find that on your D drive hence no option.
I would try putting 7 on D then that should work ok to upgrade we hope.
A second copy of 7 is a good idea in my opinion so as to do online banking etc so all will not be lost.
A good easy enough to learn tool to download so as to point windows to a particular windows installation on a different partition is EasyBCD.
Musiclover
P.S I have now checked with Microsoft and windows 8 (upgrade version) has to see another OS such as windows 7 on the partition that you want windows 8 on.
Probably a few ways to do this, either do a fresh install of windows 7 first or a more convenient way would be to install your existing image backup of 7 on that partition, boot into your old existing windows 7 and use EasyBCD to point windows to the new windows 7 in the bootloader, sounds more compliacted that it is actually as EasyBCD is fairly straight forward in this respect.
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I spent time on the phone getting help from Asus. We tried a number of things but I finally came to the conclusion to abandon my idea of installing Windows 8 on this machine. If I combined partitions C and D into one I would be deleting the recovery partition. And unless I were to buy a copy of Windows 7 it would be impossible to restore my Asus to factory specs.
Then the idea of creating a dual booting machine was also out of my reach as well.
Asus techs told me they had many calls today with people who installed Windows 8 and now want to revert back and they can't get that to happen. So I'm very fortunate to still have a very nice operating Asus All in One.
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Joan, one thing you could try is to resize your partitions (make sure you have a good backup first). Because it's one disk, just partitioned into two drives, and since you have plenty of remaining space on the D: drive, you should easily be able to add 20-30 GB of space on your C: drive by taking it from the D: drive. Check out this link for information on exactly how to do this with the "free for home use" EaseUS partition utility.
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