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paulsutcliffesw
Hi.
I picked up up a second hand laptop yesterday running windows 8 and I've been trying to get it all updated. I've run into some problems.
First off, it was second hand so has no restore disks. Or optical drive at all for that matter (it's a Samsung ultra book type.)
I tried to do the 8.1 update today which unfortunately failed as I hadn't seen I'd not switched the power on on the wall so it powered down midway. This then led to it trying to restore the previous version of windows which didn't work. It then asked to use a restore point but hung half way through that too. I did a holding the power button down reset and that brought it back to life, except, I can no longer connect to windows update and the store won't install any apps. It won't let me retry the 8.1 update either.
Ive been doing some googling and found the update troubleshooter which does show some errors but not how to fix them. I've also tried the sfc /scan now but that doesn't work either and returns an error.
Can anyone help me with getting this machine updated and running as it should please? I really would appreciate it.
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I picked up up a second hand laptop yesterday running windows 8 and I've been trying to get it all updated. I've run into some problems.
First off, it was second hand so has no restore disks. Or optical drive at all for that matter (it's a Samsung ultra book type.)
I tried to do the 8.1 update today which unfortunately failed as I hadn't seen I'd not switched the power on on the wall so it powered down midway. This then led to it trying to restore the previous version of windows which didn't work. It then asked to use a restore point but hung half way through that too. I did a holding the power button down reset and that brought it back to life, except, I can no longer connect to windows update and the store won't install any apps. It won't let me retry the 8.1 update either.
Ive been doing some googling and found the update troubleshooter which does show some errors but not how to fix them. I've also tried the sfc /scan now but that doesn't work either and returns an error.
Can anyone help me with getting this machine updated and running as it should please? I really would appreciate it.
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