Hi, I have already successfully upgraded mine into Windows 8.1 Pro with WMC from the Store. It took me about 4 days to download Windows 8.1 Pro with WMC from the Store. Now, the problem is my friends are suffering from a very slow connection because of some network capping in our area that made their download seems so very very slow and next to impossible. What I have in mind is what if I can just share the downloaded files from my computer and transfer it to their devices in order for them to continue the upgrade without needing to download individually such a huge file size from the store. The problem is I don't know where to locate such files for the Windows 8.1 Pro with WMC upgrade downloaded from the store or is it even possible? And also if ever there's such a solution for this my computer was upgraded from Windows 8 Pro with WMC to Window 8.1 Pro with WMC while one of my friends only has Windows 8 Pro. Will those files from my computer with WMC work to upgrade my friend's Windows 8 Pro to Windows 8.1 Pro without WMC?
From what ive seen you get an ESD not a wim/iso, and if that isnt enough the store deletes the 4gb esd file right after extracting it to ~bt.sources (dosen't even wait for install to complete.
1. The downloaded files already deleted from your system. 2. The downloaded files can be used for another upgrade (or even clean install with some trick), but the activation state will be lost. 3. The downloaded files are Edition specific, you can not use Pro WMC to upgrade to Pro only, you will always get Pro 8.1 WMC.
They really should stick with the laggy download from the store. It's a pain in the rear, but it's the best way to upgrade. The MSDN iso upgrade will work, but since you have to install using default keys matching Win8.1's 26xx group, you'd have to re-activate. With the store upgrade, you wouldn't need to re-activate.
Oh then it's sad to hear that. By the way, I'm downloading a Windows 8.1 Pro ISO now via torrent (I'm out of town connected in a fast wifi) with a file name SW_DVD5_Win_Pro_8.1_64BIT_Eng_Intl_MLF_X18-96633 in the intention of giving it to my friends for them to upgrade using this ISO. Will this work? I don't know if this is what referred to as the MSDN ISO cause I am not so familiar with it.
Can someone enlighten me? I've been browsing on torrents searching for a Windows 8.1 ISO to download and got confused about this "Rollup" thing I came to notice some people are posting about. Now I don't know if I'm downloading the correct ISO.
The above ISO is Pro VL you won't be able to install WMC as addon. Don't download it. Check the The Windows 8.1 Repo for Retail Links. Thanks
Okay thanks. Save me the time of downloading the wrong version. Edit: I have downloaded this: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.8.1.RTM.X64.ENGLISH.DVD-WZT RELEASE DATE: 08/21/2013 BUILD: 6.3.9600.16384.WINBLUE_RTM.130821-1623 FILE: Windows_8.1_EN-US_x64.ISO SIZE: 3,899,295,744 byte SHA-1: BC2F7FF5C91C9F0F8676E39E703085C65072139B MD5: F104B78019E86E74B149AE5E510F7BE9 I have a question. What is that Rollup-1 all about? I can't find it stated in my downloaded ISO. Is it necessary?
Unfortunately not .. There has been plenty written on it already here on the forum .. You have 3 choices 1) wait for retail rollup 1 ISO 2) dig in and read and learn about the process 3) Run your download as is and reinstall when the new ISO with rollup 1 is realeased My advice run what you have until the new release
Downloaded the upgrade file for win81 x64 WMC in .esd form from store. Believe this file is not specific to individual PCs. Can this (encryptd .esd file) be used to upgrade other PCs with same version of win8 without losing activation.