Well friends, it isn't going as smoothly as I would have hoped. My Toshiba laptop has a proprietary app, HWSETUP, that controls the boot order. I wrestled with this when I installed Win8 RP. I was changing the boot order in the BIOS and not getting anywhere. Googling helped me uncover the app. All good.
Sadly, the Win8 retail is chokes and brings up an error message about not being able to update the boot order and that the install cannot continue. Through trial and error, involving switching back to Win7 so I could manually alter the boot order, I finally got Win8 to run. Actually, it was the "refresh install" that I think did the trick. Did a bunch of reading and found some great troubleshooting tips on Win8 installs.
1st problem - my user info is gone - since I formatted the partition. I'm prompted to sign in as Other User, but I have no idea what the put in. When I select to use a Microsoft Account to sign in, I use my Hotmail email and password, but get the error message that I must be online to make that work. Can't get the network installed if I can't sign in though.
Assuming I can successfully create a new user, or sign in as the mysterious Other User, how would I go about deleting the windows.old and windows.old.000 folders, which are taking up GOBS of space and don't have anything I need. I backed up all of the files I needed.
I am so grateful for any advice. This is really starting to work my last nerve.
