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    [L702x] Windows 8 skips "Installing Features"

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by travbjork, Nov 9, 2012.

  1. travbjork

    travbjork Notebook Geek

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    Hey guys,

    I'm installing Windows 8 Pro onto the system in my signature.

    It's from the .iso, using both Windows 7 install tool and PenDriveLinux tool. (I don't think unetbootin would matter here)

    It the install, I put in my product key, select x64, do a custom install, delete all partitions from my primary disk, and then let the install start.

    It basically skips over Copying files. Not sure if this matters.

    It will prepare installation files to 100%

    It will then move to install features and install updates, but will skip right over them. The system will reboot and since there's obviously nothing on the drive, I'm just getting the blinking cursor.

    What do y'all think is going on? (This iso has successfully installed on two other systems)

    Thanks!
     
    travbjork, Nov 9, 2012
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  2. sadaniel

    sadaniel Newbie

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    same here. im using l502x the same happened to me. cant figure out why.
     
    sadaniel, Nov 18, 2012
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  3. travbjork

    travbjork Notebook Geek

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    I still haven't found a solution. Total pain in the butt. I even called Dell and they told me to call Microsoft. Obviously, I didn't call Microsoft lol.

    Anyone else have any suggestions? Mostly for sadaniel, my XPS 17 is being warrantied out for an M17x :biggrin:
     
    travbjork, Nov 18, 2012
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  4. c0derbear

    c0derbear Notebook Evangelist

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    random thought ... burn the ISO to a bootable CD/DVD, boot machine from that to do the install. Maybe something hokey going on with either the USB stick itself or the system reading from the stick during installation. I've no real theory for why, it's just a thought.
     
    c0derbear, Nov 19, 2012
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  5. sadaniel

    sadaniel Newbie

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    install from dvd apparently solve this issue. thanks c0derbear
     
    sadaniel, Nov 20, 2012
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  6. SAiLO

    SAiLO Notebook Evangelist

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    Try using the USB 2.0 port.
     
    SAiLO, Nov 22, 2012
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