Windows 8.1 x64 setup error: could not configure windows

I am trying to install Windows 8.1 and I get the following error after first reboot during setup:

Windows setup could not configure Windows to run on this computer's hardware

I have the following specs:

CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 3.2 GHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology GA-890GPA-UD3H Rev: 2101
BIOS: Award/Modular BIOS v6.00PG

Anybody know how I can get more information about this cryptic error? (any debug-verbose mode on Windows setup?)

Nikos Tsokos

Posted 2014-02-19T23:29:12.853

Reputation: 101

upload the logs: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh824819.aspx

– magicandre1981 – 2014-02-20T05:07:59.960

Answers

The answer in my case was to unplug all other hard disk drives. Specifically i had extra internals and externals hard disk drives pluged in on my initial attempt to install windows 8.1

Nikos Tsokos

Posted 2014-02-19T23:29:12.853

Reputation: 101

Source: microsoft.com

Make sure you have enough RAM, and Hard Disk Space, and other HW requirements

Windows 8.1 If you want to run Windows 8.1 on your PC, here's what it takes:

Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2 (more info)

RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)

Hard disk space: 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver

Suing

Posted 2014-02-19T23:29:12.853

Reputation: 162