My school provides Windows 8 through MSDN. My system specs seem to fit the minimum system requirements for Windows 8. I ran the Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant, and it seems to indicate that my computer is compatible with Windows 8 (Screenshots).
When I run the Windows 8 installer, it says:
What can I do? I tried running the installer by booting from the Windows 8 installation DVD, but it just says to upgrade by booting Windows normally and then using the Setup program on disc.
I tried booting into Windows 7 Safe Mode and running the Windows 8 installer from there, but it shows the same error: Something happened. We can't tell if your PC is ready to continue installing Windows 8. Try restarting Setup.
Specs:
systeminfo | findstr /B /C:"OS Name" /C:"OS Version"
OS Name: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
OS Version: 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
systeminfo | findstr /B /C:"System Manufacturer" /C:"System Model"
System Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
System Model: MacBookPro5,5
Error log from compmgmt.msc:
- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="Windows Error Reporting" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1001</EventID>
<Level>4</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-10-28T23:20:20.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>29707</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>Frootmig</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data />
<Data>0</Data>
<Data>WindowsUpdateFailure</Data>
<Data>Not available</Data>
<Data>0</Data>
<Data>7.6.7600.256</Data>
<Data>80246008</Data>
<Data>07A0AFFA-CAC8-4D8B-B916-95289BEF9AC5</Data>
<Data>Download</Data>
<Data>101</Data>
<Data>Unmanaged</Data>
<Data />
<Data />
<Data />
<Data />
<Data />
<Data />
<Data />
<Data>0</Data>
<Data>0a38d140-2156-11e2-85ed-a3ac06a57d49</Data>
<Data>0</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
I used sha1sum to verify the ISO. Yep, it matches:
1ce53ad5f60419cf04a715cf3233f247e48beec4
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