![]() ![]() (By then, I had gotten a few sympathetic e-mails from a Microsoft publicist promising help from people on the Windows team, but I never got more than an initial, friendly “what can I do to help?” response from them.)ħ. I got the same failure: a bogus report that somebody else was trying to use my Windows Live account on the system. Back home, I took yet another stab at installing Win 8 RP in early July. departure from National Airport, I gave up, reverted to Windows 7, and resented its slower performance all week long.Ħ. With no Win 8 system available and less than six hours remaining before my 8 a.m. Trying different usernames only resulted in yet another stallĥ. It said mine was already in use on the machine. After yet another restart that night–which by now counted as “early morning,” I got as far as the setup screens where Windows 8 asks you to set a user account. Wiping the Win 8 CP partition and installing Win 8 RP there – unnecessary if RP had ever installed on CP – led to this. Because I’m an idiot, I then tried wiping the Win 8 partition and doing a clean installation. Once again, the installer couldn’t get past “Finalizing your settings”–which is a funny place for Win 8 RP to halt, since it doesn’t preserve any of your settings in the first place.ģ. Because I am an idiot, and because I was getting fed up with some networking problems in Win 8 CP, I decided I’d try installing Release Preview again the night before I was heading out to San Francisco to cover Google’s I/O conference. ![]() ![]() After waiting a few hours, I forced the machine to shut down and got a prompt at startup saying that Windows would undo the RP installation and return me to CP.Ģ. At the tail end of a seemingly-nominal installation, the Release Preview installer, it got stuck at the “Finalizing your settings” screen. Months after successfully installing the Customer Preview of Windows 8 in a separate partition of my ThinkPad X120E (and somewhat regretting that it required me to wipe out Lenovo’s recovery partition), I finally got around to trying to install the Win 8 Release Preview Microsoft shipped at the end of May. Here’s what happened, in 10 painful steps.ġ. Little-known fact about me: For the past two weeks or so, I haven’t been able to use the ThinkPad I bought last summer. ![]()
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