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Link Removed That's the link from the web page. I phoned Microsoft and explained to the the lady I was having trouble downloading the trial version, only to be told they do not give technical help with trial versions!!! Speaking to the lady from Microsoft was an ordeal. First she was so faint...

I have windows 7 on my old laptop, so I thought I would give windows 8 a try. If I liked it I would buy a product key. The evaluation download from ms doesn't seem to want to work on the wiped hard drive. Saying that I could not get it to work when vista was installed.

It was 32bit

Thanks for replying. I will try what you mention.

Burnt it on win 7 (burn to disc). Got the iso file from the windows site.

Thanks for the reply. I looked at the specs for 8/8.1, the old machine should run them!!!. Over the weekend I wiped the hhd clean. I tried the win 8 dvd again but it did the same thing just loaded the files and nothing else. Yes I might have to upgrade.

I downloaded win 8 iso and burnt it to a dvd, went into bios and selected boot from cd/dvd. It starts (loading files......) loads twice, then screen goes blank. Left it for 3+ hours screen still blank. Re-started pc, (I have Vista Home Premium) inserted iso disc, run setup.exe, hit install now...

Cheers for all your help and as you say hope it doesn't break again.

Thanks for that and will do.

reset to time before last batch of critical updates were installed. It finished but said (failed to restore) So I rebooted after failed to restore, it must have done something as all seems to be well at the moment. I looked at the update history and saw update today 22nd KB3150513. But failed 7...

At the moment it's restoring files and settings, and system restore initializing. been doing this for about 10 mins. It's 10pm this side of the pond so I'll post tomorrow.

I've done that but it's still no go. windows security and maintenance just came up. File history is off. Also it has 2 options.... troubleshooting and recovery. Under troubleshooting it has (find and fix problems) and under recovery it has (refresh your computer without effecting your files, or...

reply was pinging water.com 209.10.103.203 with 32 bytes of data. Then 4 times request timed out, then says ping statistics for 209.10.103.203, packets sent = 4 received = 0, lost = 4 (100% loss) Sorry for delay.

Pressed ctrl+r no window opened.