Can not install Windows 8 ( 0x101-0x20017 )

[Arthas Chill]

Hey there people.

I'm trying to install Windows 8.1 Pro on my old laptop.
It's ASUS X50SL. It meets all requirements. Intel Core Duo, 4 GB of ram and etc.
My CD/DVD drive is broken/ drivers not working properly.
This means I can't boot it from a disc. So I'm using a USB flash drive.
I used Windows 7 USB tool to make flash drive bootable.
Booted up Windows 8.1, Windows logo is showing up, it stays there for a minute or so and then crashes, a blue screen with a sad face. Tried installing 8.1 while in windows, just executing setup.
After everything is done, files copied, laptop restarts and comes up with a message that it didn't install. In the corner is an error with a name of 0x101-0x20017.

Do you have any ideas how to install Windows 8.1 to my laptop?

 

[ronintexas]

Windows 8.1 gives this error when a previous version of windows has a "recovery partition" on the hard drive. Reading through Microsoft's site, basically you need to backup your hard drive's data first, then remove all secondary drives, and then get to a command prompt. From there:
Enter diskpart, Select [disk number of your HDD], Clean. This removes all partitions from the hard drive and will allow Windows 8.1 to install.

 

[Arthas Chill]

Windows 8.1 gives this error when a previous version of windows has a "recovery partition" on the hard drive. Reading through Microsoft's site, basically you need to backup your hard drive's data first, then remove all secondary drives, and then get to a command prompt. From there:
Enter diskpart, Select [disk number of your HDD], Clean. This removes all partitions from the hard drive and will allow Windows 8.1 to install.

I formatted every partition of the hard drive and I got that error.

Edit: After Windows 8.1 setup failed I installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.
Deleted all partitions and made two new. C and D. And then tried installing Windows 8.1 Pro and yet I got the same error.

 

[ronintexas]

You must remove both partitions to install - the drive should be "clean" (no partitions), and the error should go away.

 

[Arthas Chill]

You must remove both partitions to install - the drive should be "clean" (no partitions), and the error should go away.

When I boot Windows 8.1 setup from a flash drive on laptop startup it shows windows 8 logo.
Stays there for a minute and then crashes my laptop. I don't even get the setup.

That error I wrote here is from Windows 8.1 setup while installing it from Windows 7, while just executing setup file from USB flash drive.

 

[ronintexas]

Windows 8.1 has an issue that is all over Microsoft's website - the error you described is because Microsoft doesn't remove the other partitions correctly - so whether you boot from the USB or install from Windows - those partitions exist on the hard drive and will result in the error.

The only way to get past the error is to remove all partitions on the hard drive, then run the install.

 

[Arthas Chill]

Windows 8.1 has an issue that is all over Microsoft's website - the error you described is because Microsoft doesn't remove the other partitions correctly - so whether you boot from the USB or install from Windows - those partitions exist on the hard drive and will result in the error.

The only way to get past the error is to remove all partitions on the hard drive, then run the install.

But why I can install Windows 8.1 to my other laptop?
Well it's a netbook. HP Mini PC.
It had 2 main partitions, and two other: 1 for system backups ( 5GB) and another one for windows files (~300 mb)
I had no errors while booting from the same flash drive, neither did I while installing Windows 8.1.

I'd just go and delete all partitions and try this out, but I re-installed windows 7 yesterday, downloaded all updates, drivers etc which took me like 3 hours.
I just don't want to re-install Windows 7 and set up everything as it were before if it still doesn't work after partitions are deleted..

 

[ronintexas]

Here is the string - you can read through it....

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-windows_install/windows-81-update-fail-error-8x80070002/810de299-8305-4a98-87bd-7d7f22bb9a27