Yesterday I upgraded to Windows 8 out of boredom. It was all fine, I just wanted to redo it with a fresh installation. So tonight I burned the ISo to a DVD as normal and formatted my hard drive. I the. Installed Windows 8 onto the computer.

After setup goes through it's thing, it gives a 10 second countdown and then restarts. When it comes on, it doesn't load past the windows loading screen. I turned it off after 30 minutes and then turned it on again. After exactly an hour of letting it sit, it restarted automatically and still won't boot past that screen.

I then redid the windows 8 setup. Same thing, won't go past the boot screen.

Is it possible the ISo image was bad? Or my hard drive is failing or failed?

It's my only computer here at school and I need it working for homework tomorrow.

Thank you to anyone who can help, I'm writing this on my
Phone at 3:30 am.It's also an HP Pavilion p6210y, with an Amd radeon 6770 graphics card and a corsair power supply.Was the ISO from a reliable source? (Where did you get it?)
The ISo was from Microsoft them selves. After I purchased the upgrade, they GAVE you an option to download an ISo image before hitting install. I downloaded it, then installed windows 8 keeping my setting and files.

Also I just RAN the diagnostics on my bios boot part and it all passed.



So I loaded the disc again and hit repair my computer. I'm "resetting my pc" right now. We'll see how this works.Have you read this?

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c03457468&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=4006020Aw man I didn't ever find that. I purchased my computer in December of 2010.

So basically my hardware can't run Windows 8 if its a clean install, but it can if it's an upgrade going from 7 to 8 without wiping everything?

That makes absolutely no sense to me.

Any recommendations? I can reinstall Windows 7 again, no problem, but I paid for Windows 8.It seems that with all the limitations of reduced or non functioning of apps associated with the transition from 7 to 8 (via either method of 8 install) you WOULD be better served functionality wise by reverting to 7 on that particular computer. Hopefully you backed up all your ORIGINAL data that you wanted to keep before you tried the upgrade. I know the loss of your money that will occur if you follow this route is not welcome however hopefully you were able to get the 8 upgrade at the relatively low price it is currently being offered at.truenorth
P.S. While i recognize that it doesn't help you now perhaps others reading the linked site that ST gives will alert others to what can be the consequences of such an upgrade and they will research well before doing this conversion.I'll always be able to upgrade to Windows 8 in the future, since I have the product key I purchased. I guess I'll keep an eye out for when they fix the issue with older HP computers.