GE 70 OND Win 8.1 upgrade disaster.

GE 70 OND gaming notebook.
Hated win 8 that it came with, and was using third part workarounds to give me a workable machine, but then foolishly decided to try 8.1.
First I needed to download windows updates. I normally have these turned off as I've had trouble with "updates" before. This was no exception. During the installation of one batch of win 8 updates the machine crashed, and could not be recovered. System reset would not work fully. Machine bricked!!
Bought a win 8.1 complete install disk and tried installing it after formatting the SSD. Finally got it going, and loaded drivers from the disk supplied with the machine.
Most things sort of worked - enough to recover the files I had been working on. At this point I felt it was mainly drivers causing the trouble, so decided to format the disks again and do a complete clean install.
Big mistake....
Now I can't even get through the win 8.1 file set up. At between 10 to 20% through unpacking files it crashes with a 0x80070570 error. Have also had a BAD_POOL_ERROR too.
Won't let me load win7 either.
Now it just goes to the BIOS screen when I turn it on.
Any suggestions ???
It's under warranty, but if I can fix it without sending it away, I'll be happy.
Peter

UPDATE:
Still waiting for the instal disks from MSI. I don't expect to see them after this time.
Bought an OEM copy of Win8.0, but still won't install. Still stops at round 18%.
I've now spent $300 trying to get out of this upgrade disaster, and I think I'll just have to call it quits.
The plan is to buy a new notebook **removed different brand promotion**
I'll leave the MSI in the cupboard in case I ever do find a cure.

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Win 8.1 Upgrade Disabled Twist Touch Screen Fixed

After a Win 8.1 Upgrade, I had no touch screen function. Calls to Lenovo led nowhere Same with searching Microsoft boards. I fixed the issue on Sunday 6/1- No help from Lenovo or Microsoft.
For me it was finding two "Unknown Devices" in the HID section of Device Manager which did not have drivers installed. After researching and determining that Win 8.1 will not allow unsigned device drivers, and also seeing the "Update Driver" option failing because the drivers on the laptop that fit the problem were getting an 'INF unsigned driver error', I went through the steps to allow unsigned drivers... Charm Bar>Settings>Change PC Settings>Update and Recovery>Recovery>Advanced Startup>-Restart> Troubleshoot>Advanced Options>Startup Settings> Restart and then Chose #7>Allow Unsigned Device Drivers and Restart again... then Updating the two Unknown Devices with the drivers already on the Twist.... and voila- the errors disappeared and the touchscreen returned to full function.
I don't know if this happened to many people, but Lenovo had no idea what to do. They wanted me to ship them the laptop and allow them to roll it back to Windows 8. Posting here to distribute it to a larger audience. Maybe someone at Microsoft should call Lenovo too or Lenovo should call Microsoft. The Twist is a great laptop with Win 8.1 when everything works the way it should.
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Hi Cvj17,
Welcome to Lenovo Community!
As per your query we understood that you are looking driver for Unknown device. In some system after installing all the drivers also the unknown device will show in Lenovo Solution Center, hence confirm it once in device manage is there any Unknown adapter is showing in that.
Please install Lenovo System Update application and run it to verify the driver automatically.
Unknown Device issue.
Hope this helps.
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Cannot get to dual-boot screen after Win 8.1 upgrade

Hello,
I have an iMac with Mavericks. Recently installed Win 8 to dual-boot. Instrux then were to hold OPT button during startup to be presented with options for OS with which to boot.
Since Win 8.1 upgrade there is no way to get to that prompt. MS/Win help topics not useful (unsurprisingly). I have the original install disk but would far prefer to save my current config of Mav. Thoughts for workaround?
Cheers,
Michael C

holding down option key at bootup not giving you the bootmenu have nothing to do with win8.1
even if one never installed anything in terms bootcamp at all then holding down the option key should give the option between osx and the restore to last clean osx version
if you don't get the option then I'd say the cause is not windows as the menu is handled by the bootloader which is before windows takes over

T400 - lost Win 7 64 upgrade disks

Hi everyone
Unfortunately I have lost my Lenovo Win 7 64 upgrade disks (the infamous one delivered by Mentor Media from Singapore). Does anyone have experience of reordering them?
I've sent an email to them (in answer to their original It's shipping mail) but don't hold high hopes.
Any tip would be gratefully received.
Miguel
Madrid, Spain

I do not think there is anyway you can get a replacement discs because these are upgrade discs that were send during 2007 window 7 launched. Each set has the window 7 serial number and these are non-replaceable. Neither Mentor or lenovo is liable for item lost.
However, if you are talking about recovery discs, then maybe lenovo itself may entertain a replacement set. Do note that mentor is just a CDROM maker who at that time was contracted to do the window 7 upgrading process.
In your situation and if the win7 is installed on a working lenovo, I would suggest you google and download a software like ABR which can scan and extract the serial number and sometimes the activated profile. You can then download the digital official window 7 x64 bit (google it) and burn discs, then write the serial number on it. Note that since the win 7 has been activated, you cannot resell or reinstall the serial on another machine.

GE70 2OE win 8.1 upgrade

Hi,
I have a ge70 2oe and decided itd be time to go to windows 8.1 (since there were drivers available to download)
So I did a clean install of windows 8 (since I cant go to 8.1 instant because of my key )
and on 8 I didn't install drivers because I had the 8.1 drivers.
so I went to 8.1 that went succesfull but then. installing the drivers on 8.1 is a complete disaster. chipset drivers gives me bsod's. not everything works properly etc.
Any advice? should I stay on 8? can I use win 8 drivers on 8.1?
Thanks in advance
--Kalekip21

Quote from: Kalekip21 on 08-November-13, 16:34:05
Hi,
I have a ge70 2oe and decided itd be time to go to windows 8.1 (since there were drivers available to download)
So I did a clean install of windows 8 (since I cant go to 8.1 instant because of my key )
and on 8 I didn't install drivers because I had the 8.1 drivers.
so I went to 8.1 that went succesfull but then. installing the drivers on 8.1 is a complete disaster. chipset drivers gives me bsod's. not everything works properly etc.
Any advice? should I stay on 8? can I use win 8 drivers on 8.1?
Thanks in advance
--Kalekip21
There are a few threads regarding this.
The Intel Chipset drivers are a known issue for some reason. The best suggestion is to get them straight from Intel if memory serves right, instead of using the ones from MSI. Check the other threads about the Windows 8.1 upgrade, there is information there that can solve your problem.
Personally, I'd just forget Windows 8.1 and wait it out for a bit. It's been nothing but a huge mess for most users. It doesn't really add anything over Windows 8, which works fine.

Win 8.1 upgrade error 0xc000014c

Upgrade to 8.1 from win 8 now computer will not start.
Error0xc000014c your PC needs repair
Sys regis file is missing or contains errors
Did UEFI HP hardware diag.
and got Hard disk short DST failed and
Tuneup failed
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Your hard drive has failed and will have to be replaced. If you are still within warranty period HP will send a drive. If not you can replace it with a retail hard drive. Just be sure to get one of at least as large a capacity as the original in order to use HP Recovery Discs to reinstall Windows.
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After Win 8.1 upgrade, Acrobat 9 Pro suddenly won't run

I have Web Premium CS4, and Acrobat Pro v. 9.5.5. I bought a new Window 8.0 computer 90 days ago, installed the suite, activated, and everything ran fine. Yesterday, I upgraded to Win 8.1. Now, when I open Acrobat Pro, I get a pop-up message saying that it was installed as part of a suite, and to open another program in the suite first. When I click OK, Acrobat closes. I have tried opening nearly every other program in the suite (Bridge, Flash, Photoshop 64-bit), they run OK, but Acrobat will still not run, and there are no activation messages. I checked my Adobe account, and my version of Acrobat Pro 9 is still listed, with serial number.
I'm very disappointed, as I use Acrobat Pro quite a bit, and currently it will not stay open at all. Other than telephoning Adobe for help (no free support # listed), or using on-line chat (no link available), or e-mailing them (no address listed)...what can I do to "activate" it?
I've tried opening Acrobat Distiller and get the same message, but when I close it, I see a brief flash of what appears to be an input box with activation stuff. It only appears for half-a-second, so I cannot do anything with it.

Bill, thanks for that info. I don't think I would ever expect to get any support from Adobe on these programs, since I stopped buying revisions after CS4. I was surprised that I was even able to successfully install the CS4 Web suite onto Win 8.0, and Win 8.1 probably adds another couple hundred million lines of redundant code from our friends in Bill Gates-Land.
However, my A-Pro9 problem did resolve unexpectedly! I tried opening all the suite's programs, one at a time, and then Acrobat, with no luck. Then I realized that the suite had installed both 64-bit and 32-bit versions of Photoshop (I use the 64-bit version) onto my new 64-bit computer. So, when I opened the *32-bit Photoshop* for a minute, closed it, and re-opened Acrobat 9, it went back to working normally. I'll take it!
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Satellite P845t-10G does not go to sleep closing lid after Win 8.1 upgrade

Hi,
I own a P845t-10g and since I upgraded to Win 8.1 the laptop does not go to sleep (or shut down) when closing the lid.
However, when opening the lid, it wakes from sleep mode.
I tried installing latest Toshiba systems settings utility and all updates on the support site.
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Thanks!

Did you check the option called: What closing the lid does?
Click on the 'Power Options' icon in taskbar (or in control panel).
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Qosmio X300-13P issues of Win 7 64bit upgrade

Hi,
I've upgraded X300-13P up to Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit.
Since the model somehow not in the Qosmio X300 models list (why???), I found all needed drivers (win7 64 bit, russian) using laptop s/n and drivers filter.
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The Fn buttons don't work it was installed
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Company Toshiba
Type Value Added Package
Subtype (none)
Size (Kb) 71188
Ver 1.2.40
Language Universal
Country World Wide
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How to delete the "eHome" at all - I'm not sure if my laptop has the device?
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The "bottleneck" - operations with numbers (sorry - I translate from russian: probably not accurately).
What should I do to increase?
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Hi *PauPau*,
thanks for the answer.
> > Since the model somehow not in the Qosmio X300 models list (why???),
> The X300-13P is listed on Toshiba European driver page.
>
You're right - I've found the place - my fault, sorry.
> > The Fn buttons don't work it was installed
> Install VAP and Flash Card Support Utility!
> I used the Flash Card Support Utility which is released for L500 series.
>
It's not clear: what does mean "L500 series" - soft, say, for the "Satellite L500-ST2521" is applicable for Qosmio X300? Any model???
And only Flash card for "L500", but native VAP for X300?
> >HID Miscosoft eHome transiver
> This might be the infrared controller which is needed for the usage of remote controller in Windows Media Center. You could disable this is device manager.
>
Unfortunately - the button "Disable" is disabled for the driver. :(
> >It's impossible to register fingers - after I agree to save the scanned fingers software write "Such templates already exist..." and does nothing.
>
> First of all you should delete all fingerprints. Then you should uninstall this software.
> Reboot the unit and clean the registry using CCleaner. Reboot once again and install the fingerprint again.
OK - I'll try.
Thanks a lot!

Windpad 110W Win 8.1 upgrade can no longer boot under AHCI

I recently upgraded my 110W to Win 8.1, but then discovered that it would not boot after the first reboot. As found in some forums, changing to IDE mode in BIOS allows it to boot, but performance is somewhat slower. I have tried chaning the storahci registries and restarting under AHCI (as suggested in numerous forums) but it didn't work. I think it is possibly related to some driver issue as there were issues when I tried to update to drivers newer than those on the MSI site (I now have the MSI drivers loaded). Any suggestion as to how that can be solved?
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What is the quickest to upgrade disaster recovery system to NW04s in MSCS?

Hi,
I have an issue which I need assistance from SAP/Windows 2003 experts.
Hope you can share your opinion on an SAP upgrade issue we're grappling with.
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Therefore I believe it is only the SAP software components on the local hard disks - binaries, DLLs, registry, DCOM, environment variable etc, that need to be upgraded on the two DR machines.
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I am responsible for 9 Mac minis (late 2012) in a computer training lab. I set them up last summer to dual boot Windows 8 Pro using Boot Camp. Recently, I tried upgrading one of the minis to Windows 8.1. The upgrade downloaded from the Microsoft Store and installed with no issues. Or, so I thought. Everything continued to work as before and I had no problem booting back and forth between the two operating systems. It wasn't until I attempted to make a disk image backup of the computer using Clonezilla that I discovered there was a problem. Clonezilla displayed the error message "This disk contains mismatched GPT and MBR partition" and would not do the backup. Thus began a lengthy journey of discovery about MBR, GPT, gdisk, etc.
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Mark Ulmer

Yes. First, download gdisk (URL in the OP) and run the installer package. Then run gdisk from a terminal window and run the v (verify command). If verify indicates no problems, then you're good to go and can just type "q" to quit. However, if it shows something like this, then you have the problem:
sudo gdisk /dev/disk0
Command (? for help): v
Warning! Mismatched GPT and MBR partition! MBR partition 4, of type 0x07, has no corresponding GPT partition! You may continue, but this condition might cause data loss in the future!
Identified 1 problems!
Next, display the MBR partition table and make note of the start and end sectors for your BOOTCAMP partition. This should be partition 4 unless you've added additional partition(s), which is not officially supported by Boot Camp. It should show something like this:
Command (? for help): r
Recovery/transformation command (? for help): o
Disk size is 1953525168 sectors (931.5 GiB)
MBR disk identifier: 0x7C170CB2
MBR partitions:
Number Boot Start Sector   End Sector   Status      Code
   1                     1       409639   primary     0xEE
   2                409640    975693095   primary     0xAF
   3             975693096    976962631   primary     0xAB
   4      *      976963584   1952806911   primary     0x07
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Recovery/transformation command (? for help): m
Command (? for help): p
Number Start (sector)    End (sector) Size       Code Name
   1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00 EFI System Partition
   2          409640       975693095   465.1 GiB   AF00 Customer
   3       975693096       976962631   619.9 MiB   AB00 Recovery HD
   4       976963584      1953523711   465.7 GiB   0700 BOOTCAMP
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Command (? for help): d
Partition number (1-4): 4
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Command (? for help): n
Partition number (4-128, default 4): 4
First sector (34-1953525134, default = 976962632) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: 976963584
Last sector (976963584-1953525134, default = 1953525134) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: 1952806911
Current type is 'Apple HFS/HFS+'
Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = AF00): 0700
Changed type of partition to 'Microsoft basic data'
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Command (? for help): c
Partition number (1-4): 4
Enter name: BOOTCAMP
Run the verify command. It should report no problems. If it still reports a problem, quit (q command) and start over.
Command (? for help): v
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Command (? for help): w
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W510 Win 7 SP1 64-bit refusing Win 8 Pro upgrade

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1. Used Lenovo Recovery to bring Win7 back to factory state
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10. Ran install from DVD drive on same Windows 7 partition. Install failed.
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Instaed, click "Custom: Install windows only". Then it will give you a list of partitions to install to. Click your partition, click format, and click install or next or whatever. The computer is almost flawless without any lenovo drivers.
I timed the install, and it took almost 13 minutes to get from entering the serial to the initial setup (where you pick your email and stuff) and after completing that in a reasonable amount of time the computer was at the start screen (usable) by 18 minutes. This is was on a 7200rpm hdd so it should go much faster for you.
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Can't Create USB Recovery Drive after Win 8.1 upgrade on Lenovo Twist

After upgrading to Win 8.1 and trying to create the usb recovery drive, I get this error:
"We can't create a reccovery drive on this PC. Some required files are missing.To trouble shoot problems when your PC starts,use your window installation disk or media"
Can some give me a hint as to how to solve this?Thx.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

I contacted Lenovo who sent me out a set of 4 Recovery disks. These disks fixed the problem but it meant wiping out the hard drive and reinstalling very thing from scratch. A new recovery partition is created and the discs reinstalled Win 8 which had to be updated. Then Win 8.1 could be installed. Everything is now working as it should.

Win 8.1 upgrade problems

Haave attempted 8.1 upgrade and failed... tried several things including system refresh....have reinstalled all windows updates except 3.... kb2807986 kb2798162 kb2811660 and can not get them to install..... get error code 8024200d
tried the win trouble shooter and it said it corrected problem twice. but still get same error and no install. will not allow update to win 8.1 until these are installed... help!

Hi @Hobdy
Welcome to the HP Community! I saw your post regarding the 8024200D error message. I did some research into this error code and it lead me to this Microsoft Support link. While the link itself doesn't mention your error another Microsoft Support link regarding your error brought me to that page. So try the System Update Readiness Tool and let me know how it goes.
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