Pavilion g6 won't upgrade to windows 8.1

I have a Pavilion g6 that came with Windows 8. I have tried on 2 different occasions to upgrade to Windows 8.1. The first time, several weeks ago, I completed the install, but have had problems ever sense, system hangs, software that dies, etc. I finally decided to use my system backup to reinstall to from scratch. I did this, and then installed all Windows updates and HP updates. After 2 days of updating, I tried to install Win 8.1. I have tried 4 times and it fails each time. It downloads the updater and then says it needs to restart to complete the install and when it does, it just sits there with a bunch of dots going around in a small circle.

I finally just got a friend's Pavilion g6 to upgrade to Windows 8.1. Here's what I did:
1. Did all Windows updates.
2. Did all driver updates by going to device manager and hitting "update drivers" for each device.
3. Ran the Windows Update Troubleshooter. It said it did two fixes.
4. Ran sfc/scannow. It didn't find any errors.
5. Turned off Windows Firewall.
6. Changed to high performance power scheme (doesn't turn off anything if on ac power.)
7. Disabled antivirus.
8. In Task Manager, I ended every task that didn't look absolutely essential, including all HP tasks.
9. I started the upgrade in the evening and promised myself not to look at it or touch it until morning.
10. In the morning, all was good.
11. Re-enabled Firewall, antivirus, more conservative power scheme.

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