CANNOT UPDATE WINDOWS 8.1 PREVIEW, ONLY GET TO 15% BEFORE SYSTEMS RESTARTS

CANNOT UPDATE WINDOWS 8.1 PREVIEW, ONLY GET TO 15% BEFORE SYSTEMS RESTARTS
This is ridiculous, I TRY to update my 8.1 preview and I can only get about 15% through before the two hour limit and the system restarts and I have to start ALL OVER AGAIN.
I LOVE how MICROSOFT is not supplying a solution or giving us the option of a getting a CD or other offline update.

Support for Windows 8.1 Preview ended on January 14, 2014. It's time to replace it with the final, released version.
Windows 8.1 Preview Support Comes to an End
Update from Windows 8.1 Preview to Windows 8.1
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