Symptom:

Customers installed Win8 and got the following error:

“We are not sure what happened, but couldn't finish installing windows 8 Consumer Preview. We've set your PC back to the way it was right before you started.”

Resolution:

Running setup from the root of the media within an existing Windows installation assumes that you want to perform a clean installation with data migration.

Running setup from the sources folder gives more of a Windows 7-like experience where it asks you what you want to do.

Symptom:

You try to install Windows 8 (CP), and encountered the following error:

"We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one.  For more information, see the Setup log files."

Resolution:

Try to following methods:

1)Check if you have an SD Card in the system. If you do, you remove it and run setup again.

2) Once the setup fails to find the partition, just close the setup window (the top-right-hand side red X does the job).

From that point, you should be brought back at the initial setup screen.Choose "Repair" then go to the advanced tools and start the command line.

Start DISKPART.

Type LIST DISK and identify your SSD disk number (from 0 to n disks).

Type SELECT DISK <n> where <n> is your SSD disk number.

Type CLEAN

Type CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

Type ACTIVE

Type FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK

Type ASSIGN

Type EXIT twice (one to get out of DiskPart, the other to exit the command line tool)

Symptom:

When you backup a VHD to a network share which is a local drive, it may fails with the following error:

The backup operation to \\server\b$\daily\a\ is starting.
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
The backup of volume System(C:) could not be completed.  Error: The requested operation could not be completed due to a file system limitation
The backup operation stopped before completing.

In the event log, I get the following:

VDS Basic Provider: Unexpected failure.  Error code: 490@01010004

and

Backup: The backup operation that started at '?2010?-?05?-?17T20:54:42.085886000Z' has failed with following error code '2155348041' (None of the source volumes were backed up.).  Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

Root cause:

It's not possible to specify as a Destination Folder a share that is located on the machine (Like \\LocalHost\ShareName) where you are running the backup (in this case, it's the WSB Backup). When you try this, the backup will fail just after finishing the
enumeration of the files (after the snapshot creation and the Writer Initialization) and just before starting the I/O backup operation (i.e: Copying from source to destination). The reason is because we DO NOT SUPPORT opening VHDs from a LOOPBACK SMB CONNECTION.

During a normal Backup Operation, we create on the Target a VHD and we mount it. This VHD will be filled by the content of the source. When we target the backup to a VHD on the network, if the share is on a local drive, we try to make a loopback SMB. By design, this is not supported, and will not work.

Solution:

You need to use either LOCAL Drive or Remote SHARED FOLDER on OTHER Server on your Network.

For by pass this kind of limitation, you can use a complete backup software for Enterprise like System Center Data Protection 2010.

This is an interesting issue of Windows 7.

Some customers reported that in the Power Options they have chosen 'Never' for 'Turn off the display'. However it keeps resetting itself to 20 minutes.

After further investigation, it was proved to be a compatibilty issue of HD Tunes Pro. That software is for hard drives testing and each time any test starts it resets power options.

Recently, many customers reported the Windows Firewall issue. This seemed to be caused by a wide spread malicious application.

Symptom:

The error message "Windows Firewall can't change some of your settings. Error code 0x80070424" will pop up when you try to change the Windows Firewall settings. In the meantime, when you restart the system, it might pop up an error saying that "Base Filtering Engine Service" could not be found in the system.

Please note that the same error code could pop up when you try doing anything in Windows Defender.

Resolution:

Download the registry files (You can also export HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\BFE from another working Win7 PC)
1055.BFE.reg

0677.mpssvc.reg

Launch and import them to registry

Restart your PC

Now,open RUN and type

regedit and click ok

go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\BFE

Right click on it-permissions

Click on ADD and type

Everyone and click ok

Now Click on Everyone

Below you have permission for users

Select full control and click ok

Now,open RUN and type services.msc and click ok

start base filtering engine service and then windows firewall service

Good luck

Note:Modifying REGISTRY settings incorrectly can cause serious problems that may prevent your computer from booting properly. Microsoft cannot guarantee that any problems resulting from the configuring of REGISTRY settings can be solved. Modifications of these settings are at your own risk...

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