[W8 32b] TF810c issues/hints/solutions/advice - owners thread - Windows 8 General

If there are other owners of TF810 here, perhaps we could exchange our experiences about this device.
As awesome as it is it has its weak points, mainly (IMHO) due to bugs in the system itself and poor support form Asus.
My issues:
1. Sleep/hibernate - most of the time 9 out of 10 time - my TF810 just hangs and does not want to wake up.
If I pres Win button on tablet I do get vibration but nothing else happens. I have to press & hold power button for few seconds. After that I got to do it again, but this time it vibrates and starts to boot from scratch.
2. Dock does not seem to be actually charging tablet. I left the two connected for 1 night (unplugged) with tablet and when I woke up in the morning (TF810 was not shut down prev. evening) what I found is this:
http://sdrv.ms/123sQCx so it seems that during night nothing happened
3. Few times so far when dock and station were connected I have lost ability to use cursor and touch pad.
4. one time so far (I had to use restore point) I have lost touch gestures on the tablet. Touch itself was working - I could move Modern UI screen, start apps. But I could not close any of them with touch or get Charm bar up swiping from the right.
Did anyone else had similar problems?
One more thing:
If I would have to reinstall Windows 8 on this device from scratch - how do I do it?
I have not noticed any Win8 activation/serial key.
I have noticed that there is a hidden partition (actually there is few of them) on the C: drive - if I would have to start W8 from one of them - how?
Lastly...
I suppose that with limited space on this device it would be best if I could backup (what is important from those hidden partitions on cloud/nas drive) in case I will need it in future. This way I could get this space back and if needed lod backed up stuff to USB stick/micro sd card and restore form there,
Does any one knows step by step guide - since it is expensive device and Asus support is shy (to say the least) I would love to make sure I do not f..up something...

The key might be printed on a sticker in the battery compartment.
Right click on My computer > properties. Does it show "Windows 8 Pro 64bit" ? If not What is the operating system?
The recovery that you are talking is a separate partition or a folder on C drive?. Does it have a single file named RefreshImage.wim?

marvelprash said:
The key might be printed on a sticker in the battery compartment.
Right click on My computer > properties. Does it show "Windows 8 Pro 64bit" ? If not What is the operating system?
The recovery that you are talking is a separate partition or a folder on C drive?. Does it have a single file named RefreshImage.wim?
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There is no such thing as battery compartment on TF810 + if you would read title of my post you would not ask about the system (especially that TF810 runs Atom Z2760).
Anyway, on your main question and my issue - this is how 64GB drive built in this system looks like:
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=9B14B7F8CBC1A2BE!16032&authkey=!ACGHuYfKHyZ5fpM
So there is few GB that I could get back...
Just how?

Thing is you want to delete that partition and do a clean install
Whenever I have tried the clean install or Reset option Under settings > general, Win8 asks for a product key

marvelprash said:
Thing is you want to delete that partition and do a clean install
Whenever I have tried the clean install or Reset option Under settings > general, Win8 asks for a product key
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Sorry but I do not follow...
I do want to get rid of this partition - it is 8GB. |Considering my drive is only 64GB - it is a lot of space I could use.
I need to be sure (before I do that) that I will be able to get W8 back on TF810 if I need to.
DVD I got is with W8 Pro (both 32/64bits) and key has been used so it will not work.
With Asus I have not seen key anywhere

I did some research and according to it Windows 8 comes with OEM Activation 3.0. It means that your product key is embedded in bios. Problem solved
Also MS has provided its own tutorial to copy recovery partition to USB drive for Surface pro.It should not work for you
http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-US/support/storage-files-and-folders/create-a-recovery-drive
After this you can format the 8GB partition and label it so it will show up as a new partition.
If you want to merge it with C, you will have to "Delete everything and re-install Windows" under settings > general and delete both partitions during re installation
There are a number of tools that can merge partitions without re installing but I haven't used them on Win8 so not sure about their compatibility

marvelprash said:
I did some research and according to it Windows 8 comes with OEM Activation 3.0. It means that your product key is embedded in bios. Problem solved
Also MS has provided its own tutorial to copy recovery partition to USB drive for Surface pro.It should not work for you
http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-US/support/storage-files-and-folders/create-a-recovery-drive
After this you can format the 8GB partition and label it so it will show up as a new partition.
If you want to merge it with C, you will have to "Delete everything and re-install Windows" under settings > general and delete both partitions during re installation
There are a number of tools that can merge partitions without re installing but I haven't used them on Win8 so not sure about their compatibility
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Thanks for the link - I'll read it now.
Merging without re installation is the most tempting option...

Aomei Partition manager is the one that I used on Win7 for this. It is pretty good. However I haven't tried it on 8 yet.
to be sure this article confirms that you will not need a product key http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-33642_7-57554240-292/windows-8-moves-to-bios-based-product-keys/

marvelprash said:
Aomei Partition manager is the one that I used on Win7 for this. It is pretty good. However I haven't tried it on 8 yet.
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Thanks. I got to buy 8GB stick first (and 64GB micro SD card). I chave checked - Indeed I got Recovery option as described by MS.

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woopsie HDD help needed!

Hi....i was going to format my shift and since i never used the vista recovery option from the bios i downloaded gparted and made a live cd usb and booted it up, deleted every single partition uncluding the hidden one that i could see and in total i had one big unallocated partitionless harddrive which i saved the changes and rebooted.
I then inserted a usb stick with windows 7 on it and proceeded to install, i created a new partititon and windows asked to create that 100mb system reserved and i then proceeded with the installation which took more than twice as long as it has ever done before.
Is this due to my gparted fiddling? Because at the second stage of installation, the unpacking of files it went quick and smooth up to 38% and after that slow as hell, unlike ever before during any version install...
And now that i finally had that part of the installation behind me it proceeded to automatically reboot for the final stage and when it did reboot after the RAM and basic BIOS tests it reported bad SMART status and i pressed F1 to continue and everything resumed as it should...
But I cannot find any settings in the BIOS to turn of the SMART checking so what can I do now?
Did i not delete the MBR? as I thought it would have gone with the partitions...
And why did the installation go so incredibly slow this time?
now I just got a Blue Screen & Ataport.sys message.
Could it really be such bad timing that the computers HDD has started to fail at the same time i deleted the partition or is this a software issue and not a hardware one?
What version of Windows 7?
I accidentally downloaded a RC/ Checked Debug version which had the same problems on an original untouched HDD.
If you are using correct version, then try repartitioning woth another tool liek acronis disk director. Format completely. Reboot, then re-partition , install windows 7 (RTM available tomorrow)
oh you sound a bit more optimistic than over at hd guru forum, check what they wrote when i published my thread over there:
http://forum.hddguru.com/htc-shift-recovery-partition-gives-false-smart-bios-error-t12907.html

HTC Shift and Android... is there a way?

Hi to everyone,
I'd like to buy this device, now it's street priced at 500 euro but before I do that, I would like know if there's any way to get it into the Android platform.
As far as I read nobody speaked about that and for that I opened this thread.
What do you know about?
Cheers,
If you are thinking of trying Android like what have been tried on other devices (i.e. via SD card loading) there lies the first essential problem. There is no SD card on mobile side. Crack this and you probably can start on the Android issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=440036
sev7en said:
Hi to everyone,
I'd like to buy this device, now it's street priced at 500 euro but before I do that, I would like know if there's any way to get it into the Android platform.
As far as I read nobody speaked about that and for that I opened this thread.
What do you know about?
Cheers,
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Hi. I use a translator from Russian into English so that not worry.
I did so.
Download the Android x86 with http://android-x86.googlecode.com/files/eeepc-20090820.iso.
Install an image through unetbootion on USB stick. Start. Start the installation on the hard disk. Formatted for ext2. Rebooted. Yes, with the appearance of the boot to choose the first row, press the "e" (for her editing) and another "e". Append the following line to vga = 788. Press Enter. Then click "b" to boot. When you boot, you will need to press the button and select the video mode, I chose 8. And voila.
Camera works. Better than eeepc900. (It also tried to) the rest did not try it, they say you can start the WIFI, but I'm not good at Linux.
Maybe someone will try harder to establish all the drivers?
nice finding! but everyone is still wanting to replace windows mobile with android or other linux.
propsan said:
Hi. I use a translator from Russian into English so that not worry.
I did so.
Download the Android x86 with http://android-x86.googlecode.com/files/eeepc-20090820.iso.
Install an image through unetbootion on USB stick. Start. Start the installation on the hard disk. Formatted for ext2. Rebooted. Yes, with the appearance of the boot to choose the first row, press the "e" (for her editing) and another "e". Append the following line to vga = 788. Press Enter. Then click "b" to boot. When you boot, you will need to press the button and select the video mode, I chose 8. And voila.
Camera works. Better than eeepc900. (It also tried to) the rest did not try it, they say you can start the WIFI, but I'm not good at Linux.
Maybe someone will try harder to establish all the drivers?
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This seems to be an installation on the PC side of the Shift. I think the poster knows how to install full linux on the PC side. He is interested in Android on the snapvue side.
sniveri said:
nice finding! but everyone is still wanting to replace windows mobile with android or other linux.
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It would be great. I saw somewhere on the internet post installation Androida place for WM. If turn out otpishus. While hardly on the side of wm memory only 50 mb (if I'm not mistaken) and for Androida need more.
Yep and we don`t even have bootable kernel yet, unless Neutron83 has founded out something, as he was working with this. There is another topic about this..

[Q] Boot Loop, help?

IN MY INFINITE WISDOM, I replaced my build.prop with the one from a Motorola Xoom in an attempt to get Sketchbook Pro to show up in the market. Now my tablet is boot looping.
I backed the original up in the same directory, as build.prop.OLD. If I could mount system and replace the file with a PC, I'd imagine that the tablet would work again. How could I do that?
However, THERE IS ANOTHER COMPLICATION! I used the 'Acer Phone Disabler' app to remove the telephony drivers, which means that I cannot flash a rom or the tablet will brick. I'm not sure what this means for Nandroid backups.
The tablet has the leaked stock 3.1 rom installed, it's rooted, and it has Clockworkmod recovery.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Oh god.
I used ADB to pull my build.prop.OLD, renamed it to build.prop, and pushed it back. Now... the tablet boots up, and it shows the Android "Welcome" screen. Clicking the only button available doesn't work. It just highlights as if it is selected, and doesn't do anything when I lift my finger up.
I DO have a Nandroid backup from several weeks ago of the same rom, but from BEFORE I removed the telephony drivers. I am only going to try restoring it as a last resort; does anyone have any ideas? Remember, flashing a rom would result in a brick because I used Acer Phone Disabler. Is a nandroid backup safe?
Thanks guys. I'm really hoping this tablet isn't too screwed.
I'm hoping someone else chimes in here but I am under the impressing that the nandroid backup would override any changes you could make as long as you don't break recovery. As far as my experience goes if you had a backup of your current configuration you could do an "advanced restore" and only restore your "system"
Sent from my A500 using Tapatalk
Restoring just system worked! My homescreen is back to stock but all my apps are still installed, so I don't really care. Thanks a bunch, I was so worried.
COOL!!!
Glad I could help.
Sent from my A500 using Tapatalk
Help needed for a boot loop
Well as said in the video, i reuse an existing thread about bootloop...
I'm stuck in a bootloop with an iconia A500... but let's look at the steps that got me there...
The First mistake was to answer yes to my friend who asked me to connect his Vodafone k3565 to his iconia A500, but as i read Android was linux based and i did use linux a lot as a student, i didn't even imagine it could go wrong...
Tablet was stating to run :
Android 3.1
Bernel 2.6.36.3-00009-9dddf6f2
Build 4.015.05-EMEA-CUS3
i did root with iconia root 1.3
then added Busybox and a terminal program.
reboot, try a SU and could access the devices
Here is the second mistake... i should have wondered how to restore to normal state before starting, because i don't have any SD card that suit the device ( mine are normal sized ones, you know.. Stamp sized :/ )
Then i got to the thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1058846&page=7
and i used an usb key to transfer it to the device, but before applying the files i took a look to them and found 3 of them would overwrite actual system files, so i did a backup of them :
/system/build.prop
/system/etc/apns-conf
/system/bin/rild
and looking at the build.prop i saw differences in the values of the one on the A500 and the one in the package so i decided to get only the missing lines from the new system.zip file and add them to the original file
And here is the 3rd mistake, and i guess the reason of the problem : i did that merge on a windows computer, and i fear it did add those pesky CRLF at the end of lines, turning my build.prop into a build.prob(lem).
I'm not sure, as i didn't check before it was too late.
rebooted and... boot loop, with 1 times out of 2, the little android with yellow triangle and exclamaition mark.
Cried, runned in circles, then looked on forums to find a solution.
Reboot with Power+Volume gives :
"Erasing cache before SD update...
SD update cmd:recovery
--update_package=sdcard:update.zip
Booting recovery kernel image"
Then i get the android with gears for a few seconds, then below him is a bar like the one in the android store when you download a file, then half a second later, again the exclaimation mark.
I also tried plugging a keyboard to hit the home key...
( in fact two : Logitech G110 and trust easy scroll silverline )
no difference, maybe because those are gaming keyboards and they arent loaded soon enough by the tab, or maybe it crashes before keyboard loading.
Tried then to install ADB using post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1155664
hoping i could use the USB cable to put the backup files back in place but when i plug the device into the windows host, it recognises an unavailable USB MTP device, whose properties say "Acer iconia tab a500" in the "signaled bus description"(translated from french display, may be something else in english)
I manually force added the Acer ADB interface, but both the devices are unavailable to windows, with a warning sign, stating "this device cannot start (code 10)"
"Adb shell" answers "Error:device not found",which is expected, as windows can't see the devices properly
the strange thing is that, with USB plugged from A500 to PC, the Android with exclaimation stays forever, while without the cable, the system boot-loops
so i'm at this point :
i have a boot looping device, and the backup of the modified files on an USB key, and no way to put them back on device.
I found on the forums a lot of different .imgs that could be put on the /system to reload the device but none with EMEA-CUS3. So if i overwrite the files, i can't go back
I read you need a SD card to patch the device but not all of them work...
And my only computer with a SD slot uses a big one, not micro one, so i also need an adapter to write on the sd card.
Is someone near me (belgium/postcode 4000) having a SD ward working with the device who could lend it or help me doing the job ?
else
i saw in a nearby store ad "Sigma SDHC 4Go" or "Sigma SDHC 8Go", with apparently an adaptor for a normal sized SD slot, can anyone confirm it works or it don't work for sure ?
else
Can anyone tell me an SD card know to work, and being sold currently with an adapter so i have a chance to find one in a store near me ?
Is there a way to create an update.zip that will only update the files i did overwrite ?
if not, has someone an image for the same system i have ?
Well... lots of questions, but i'm very worried, especially as the device is not mine and not working anymore atm.
-> update
Looking closer at the modem (Vodafone k3565) it has a trap that says "SD card" so i guess i won't need an adapter... still need the reference of a SD card known to work for the restoring.
[bump] and more :
this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=834144
lists working SD cards, but don't tell with which device. i'd take the guess it applies to the iconia A500 and take the list to the shop to see if anyone is available...
Did you install the Acer USB driver, found here? http://www.acer.co.uk/ac/en/GB/content/drivers
You might need to go into device manager after installing and right click/update drivers on the tablet, then manually direct it to the Acer driver folder. That's what I did, then ADB worked.
Haemdaer said:
Well as said in the video, i reuse an existing thread about bootloop...
I'm stuck in a bootloop with an iconia A500... but let's look at the steps that got me there...
The First mistake was to answer yes to my friend who asked me to connect his Vodafone k3565 to his iconia A500, but as i read Android was linux based and i did use linux a lot as a student, i didn't even imagine it could go wrong...
Tablet was stating to run :
Android 3.1
Bernel 2.6.36.3-00009-9dddf6f2
Build 4.015.05-EMEA-CUS3
i did root with iconia root 1.3
then added Busybox and a terminal program.
reboot, try a SU and could access the devices
Here is the second mistake... i should have wondered how to restore to normal state before starting, because i don't have any SD card that suit the device ( mine are normal sized ones, you know.. Stamp sized :/ )
Then i got to the thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1058846&page=7
and i used an usb key to transfer it to the device, but before applying the files i took a look to them and found 3 of them would overwrite actual system files, so i did a backup of them :
/system/build.prop
/system/etc/apns-conf
/system/bin/rild
and looking at the build.prop i saw differences in the values of the one on the A500 and the one in the package so i decided to get only the missing lines from the new system.zip file and add them to the original file
And here is the 3rd mistake, and i guess the reason of the problem : i did that merge on a windows computer, and i fear it did add those pesky CRLF at the end of lines, turning my build.prop into a build.prob(lem).
I'm not sure, as i didn't check before it was too late.
rebooted and... boot loop, with 1 times out of 2, the little android with yellow triangle and exclamaition mark.
Cried, runned in circles, then looked on forums to find a solution.
Reboot with Power+Volume gives :
"Erasing cache before SD update...
SD update cmd:recovery
--update_package=sdcard:update.zip
Booting recovery kernel image"
Then i get the android with gears for a few seconds, then below him is a bar like the one in the android store when you download a file, then half a second later, again the exclaimation mark.
I also tried plugging a keyboard to hit the home key...
( in fact two : Logitech G110 and trust easy scroll silverline )
no difference, maybe because those are gaming keyboards and they arent loaded soon enough by the tab, or maybe it crashes before keyboard loading.
Tried then to install ADB using post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1155664
hoping i could use the USB cable to put the backup files back in place but when i plug the device into the windows host, it recognises an unavailable USB MTP device, whose properties say "Acer iconia tab a500" in the "signaled bus description"(translated from french display, may be something else in english)
I manually force added the Acer ADB interface, but both the devices are unavailable to windows, with a warning sign, stating "this device cannot start (code 10)"
"Adb shell" answers "Error:device not found",which is expected, as windows can't see the devices properly
the strange thing is that, with USB plugged from A500 to PC, the Android with exclaimation stays forever, while without the cable, the system boot-loops
so i'm at this point :
i have a boot looping device, and the backup of the modified files on an USB key, and no way to put them back on device.
I found on the forums a lot of different .imgs that could be put on the /system to reload the device but none with EMEA-CUS3. So if i overwrite the files, i can't go back
I read you need a SD card to patch the device but not all of them work...
And my only computer with a SD slot uses a big one, not micro one, so i also need an adapter to write on the sd card.
Is someone near me (belgium/postcode 4000) having a SD ward working with the device who could lend it or help me doing the job ?
else
i saw in a nearby store ad "Sigma SDHC 4Go" or "Sigma SDHC 8Go", with apparently an adaptor for a normal sized SD slot, can anyone confirm it works or it don't work for sure ?
else
Can anyone tell me an SD card know to work, and being sold currently with an adapter so i have a chance to find one in a store near me ?
Is there a way to create an update.zip that will only update the files i did overwrite ?
if not, has someone an image for the same system i have ?
Well... lots of questions, but i'm very worried, especially as the device is not mine and not working anymore atm.
-> update
Looking closer at the modem (Vodafone k3565) it has a trap that says "SD card" so i guess i won't need an adapter... still need the reference of a SD card known to work for the restoring.
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The reason "some" SD cards don't work is down purely to formatting. Normally, reformatting them in an Android phone sorts it out. Not always, but normally. Don't worry about the GEN3 stuff too much, it's just regional variations anyway... More important to get the tab working again, no?
Yes i did ( on 2 different computers, just to be sure )...
and still the device is not recognised as "adb device".
Windows shows a "USB MTP Device"
Tried to manually add the "ACER Composite ADB Interface" and "ACER Fastboot Interface" to the installed peripherals, it shows with yellow exclaimation mark, never shows up running.
Without any useable answer about one week later, i did buy a Traxdata 2Gb SD card with adapter ( the cheapest i found with an adapter from micro SD to normal SD ) and flashed with the Emea_Gen3 ROM from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1113878.
Now the tablet works, but is telling me 4.010.42-COM-GEN1 instead of the previous 4.015.05-Emea-Cus3.
Seems to work correctly, so i go on with the modem connexion.

[Q] Stop Windows 8 from " Picking System to Boot"

Background: So I was running Windows 8 Built 2400 and I wanted to upgrade the new built. I decided to Download BluePoison and download windows built 8400 from there. I put it in a bootable USB and ran it but something when wrong and didn't let me install it. So I decided to go to windows 8 official website and download the official windows. I install it and everything work then I rebooted.
Now when my pc rebooted It let me to a blue screen where its gave me 3 options: (1) Windows 8 Volume 2 (2) Windows 8 Volume 2 (3) Choose Options { can remember exact name }. When I choose (1) it boots up regularly. When I pick (2) it gives me and error that windows can run cause a file its missing ( Im pretty sure this is some left over from the installation that fail)
So does anyone know how I can stop thing and just let windows boot into option (1) automatically
Open explorer, right click Computer, hit properties, hit advanced system settings, then hit the settings button in the Startup and Recovery group.
Sent from my LG-LS670 using XDA
ShadowEO said:
Open explorer, right click Computer, hit properties, hit advanced system settings, then hit the settings button in the Startup and Recovery group.
Sent from my LG-LS670 using XDA
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Thank You. That work
Is there anyway to deleted the leftover from the other operation system?
peconaut said:
Thank You. That work
Is there anyway to deleted the leftover from the other operation system?
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if its installed to a different partition then right click in the bottom right corner of desktop to give you the quick menu, go to disk management and delete the no longer needed partition.
It would be wise to make sure you know which one it is, check in My computer, you will see the drive you are currently using Windows from will have a blue windows logo on it. Then expand your existing partition to use the space
If you somehow installed it on the same partition or it just went wrong then check for Windows.old folders, its unlikely that Windows will have installed to the same folder
Also hit Win-R to bring up the Run dialog box
type in MSCONFIG
Goto Boot
select the dead OS and delete it
dazza9075 said:
if its installed to a different partition then right click in the bottom right corner of desktop to give you the quick menu, go to disk management and delete the no longer needed partition.
It would be wise to make sure you know which one it is, check in My computer, you will see the drive you are currently using Windows from will have a blue windows logo on it. Then expand your existing partition to use the space
If you somehow installed it on the same partition or it just went wrong then check for Windows.old folders, its unlikely that Windows will have installed to the same folder
Also hit Win-R to bring up the Run dialog box
type in MSCONFIG
Goto Boot
select the dead OS and delete it
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When I press Disk Management and there four Volume ((C: ),HP_TOOLS(F: ),RECOVERY ), and System. So I don't know which one to deleted.
I also check and there not Windows.old folder I believe I deleted it.
When I Press Win-R and Go to MSCONFIG. I deleted the dead OS
SO DO I deleted anything in Disk Management
peconaut said:
When I press Disk Management and there four Volume ((C: ),HP_TOOLS(F: ),RECOVERY ), and System. So I don't know which one to deleted.
I also check and there not Windows.old folder I believe I deleted it.
When I Press Win-R and Go to MSCONFIG. I deleted the dead OS
SO DO I deleted anything in Disk Management
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nope, I wouldn't delete any of them
if you want to be sure, open up a command console
type in diskpart
then type list volume
it will give you a list of all your volumes.
if you can copy it or take a screen shot and post it here we can take a look
The drives you have listed tho look like valid partitions that HP would install for recovery purposes so whatever happened with the other install it doesn't look like it changed anything other than messing with the boot config.
dazza9075 said:
nope, I wouldn't delete any of them
if you want to be sure, open up a command console
type in diskpart
then type list volume
it will give you a list of all your volumes.
if you can copy it or take a screen shot and post it here we can take a look
The drives you have listed tho look like valid partitions that HP would install for recovery purposes so whatever happened with the other install it doesn't look like it changed anything other than messing with the boot config.
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Here its a pick. Also I agrre with you that the other partitions are for HO recovery purposes. DO you believe since I deleted the dead OS from MSCONFIG and deleted Windows.old folder that there should not be any leftover from the previous instillation
peconaut said:
Here its a pick. Also I agrre with you that the other partitions are for HO recovery purposes. DO you believe since I deleted the dead OS from MSCONFIG and deleted Windows.old folder that there should not be any leftover from the previous instillation
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yes, from what you've told me that sounds like it should be it
dazza9075 said:
yes, from what you've told me that sounds like it should be it
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Thanks for your help
Any time mate, my pleasure

Installation issue on windows tablet

Hello guys,
Yesterday my DigiLand DL801W asked me for the win10 update, so i downloaded the update, let it configure, then it asked me on what drive i wanted it, i picked my sd card, so it was installing itself so i let it for diner, when i came back my tablet was rebooting evry 4 seconds, it starts, do the loading circle, then a window pop up like 0,5 sec and it say after restoring your previous version of windows and reboot
Does anybody know how to stop that?
Thanks
EquimoX said:
Hello guys,
Yesterday my DigiLand DL801W asked me for the win10 update, so i downloaded the update, let it configure, then it asked me on what drive i wanted it, i picked my sd card, so it was installing itself so i let it for diner, when i came back my tablet was rebooting evry 4 seconds, it starts, do the loading circle, then a window pop up like 0,5 sec and it say after restoring your previous version of windows and reboot
Does anybody know how to stop that?
Thanks
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That generally means there was an error while it was updating to Windows 10. I would recommend updating your BIOS (which worked for my computer) and/or update important drivers. Unfortuneately, there is no one size fits all answer to this problem (to my knowledge).
IronManMark20 said:
That generally means there was an error while it was updating to Windows 10. I would recommend updating your BIOS (which worked for my computer) and/or update important drivers. Unfortuneately, there is no one size fits all answer to this problem (to my knowledge).
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Ok thanks, but, how do i update my bios or even my driver if my tablet is like rebooting every 4 seconds?
Do i need to do a keyboard combinasion at the start screen with the loading circle?
EquimoX said:
Ok thanks, but, how do i update my bios or even my driver if my tablet is like rebooting every 4 seconds?
Do i need to do a keyboard combinasion at the start screen with the loading circle?
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Ah, I missed it was in a loop. I hate to break it to you, but if it is stuck at the loading circle, it could be a very low level problem. Do you have recovery media?
IronManMark20 said:
Ah, I missed it was in a loop. I hate to break it to you, but if it is stuck at the loading circle, it could be a very low level problem. Do you have recovery media?
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What do you mean by very low level problem?
No i don't,
I got the win 10 files on my flash drive, can't i see if there a log or something that say what is the error who caused this?
EquimoX said:
What do you mean by very low level problem?
No i don't,
I got the win 10 files on my flash drive, can't i see if there a log or something that say what is the error who caused this?
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Essentially, your computer goes through a few steps when it is starting up. First, it loads the BIOS, which is stored on a chip on your motherboard. Then it loads an OS loader. Then it loads Windows. You can see here for more on the process (if you want an indepth look). When it is loading Windows it goes through a few steps, as mentioned in that post. Normally, when there is a problem with booting, you can try to go into Safe Mode by holding the F8 key. You should give this a try. If that doesn't work, you have bigger problems. At that point it is very likely that Windows is broken such that the built-in tools are not able to , and you will have to recover or re-install. You will then probably want to create recovery media.
EDIT: As to a log, I do not think you would be able to find one. I don't know of any error checking at that level, since it hasn't loaded much of the operating system. Of course I could be wrong.
IronManMark20 said:
Essentially, your computer goes through a few steps when it is starting up. First, it loads the BIOS, which is stored on a chip on your motherboard. Then it loads an OS loader. Then it loads Windows. You can see for more on the process (if you want an indepth look). When it is loading Windows it goes through a few steps, as mentioned in that post. Normally, when there is a problem with booting, you can try to go into Safe Mode by holding the F8 key. You should give this a try. If that doesn't work, you have bigger problems. At that point it is very likely that Windows is broken such that the built-in tools are not able to , and you will have to recover or re-install. You will then probably want to create recovery media.
EDIT: As to a log, I do not think you would be able to find one. I don't know of any error checking at that level, since it hasn't loaded much of the operating system. Of course I could be wrong.
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I don't have any data on this tablet, so i might just do an re-install, do i just need to put windows on a usb stick or do i need to do something else?
EDIT: I just looked at the files on the sd card, there is files with text in them:
"rollbackinfo" in folder "Rollback":
[Flow]
CurrentPhase=SafeOS,Start
CurrentOperation=32,end
OperationResult=2147943792
[BootEntries]
DownlevelCurrent={2D27CA4F-9B99-11E3-9D11-9483277031A5}
DownlevelDefault={2D27CA4F-9B99-11E3-9D11-9483277031A5}
[BootManager]
Timeout=30
[OldOS]
ConnectedStandby=Yes
Compressed=Yes
[RecoveryPartition]
Backup=Yes
Info.Rec=0,10658775040,4859101184
InfS=0,240123904,10418651136
And another named "location" on folder "WIMBoot.backup":
[WinRE Location]
Partition offset=10658775040
Relative path=\Recovery\WindowsRE
On the second one can't i just put another location and install a full brand new windows on it?
i guess you have access to another PC, if so use the media creation tool (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10) to create a bootable USB stick and try reinstalling win 10
Sequeezer said:
i guess you have access to another PC, if so use the media creation tool to create a bootable USB stick and try reinstalling win 10
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It won't even notice the usb stick, it only want the sd card, because when i remove it, it says to me to put it back in and press ok on a dialog window
Did you ever get this figured out? I'm dealing with the exact same issue here.
Silent Patriot said:
Did you ever get this figured out? I'm dealing with the exact same issue here.
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No, still got that stupid boot loop...
EquimoX said:
No, still got that stupid boot loop...
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Update:
They sent me back a replacement tablet with 8.1 on it and forgot to send back my 32GB SD card. Just a tad miffed. I know I'll get it back, but am extremely concerned about allowing the new one to try and update to 10.
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Gave up and got an RMA to send it in for repair. Should get it back with Windows 10 loaded on it. FYI - the standard warranty is only 90-days, and I'm within that timeframe, so it's covered. Hope yours is as well, but not sure how they're handling this for out-of-coverage units.
I also same problem. Please help me to get my table PC again.

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