[NickyP]

Hi, Many thanks for your hard work and guidance! I have a Chuwi Hi8 Pro. I generally followed your clean installation guide with a few differences and managed to succesfully clean install the latest version of Windows (April 2018 version 1803). I had removed Android beforehand for space reasons, but when I tried to install the 1803 “upgrade” it failed spectacularly and managed to destroy Net Framework in the process. This in turn caused many apps to fail. I tried many times to repair/upgrade, then gave up and decided to bite the bullet and re-install W10 from scratch. It turned out to be pretty painless.

Here are a few differences in the process I employed:

• The Windows Creation tool was directly used to download W10  and create the USB drive. I did not need Rufus. I accepted the automatic naming of the drive given by the tool.
• Before starting the process I made a backup of all the drivers (non microsoft) on the tablet with Double Driver, and reinstalled them after W10 installed.
• I used a 2-hub c type USB (power supply attached) with a keyboard/mouse dongle and the USB drive created by the Windoes Media Creation tool. I did not need a wi-fi dongle. Note: the USB Drive had been previously formatted to NTFS but maybe the creation tool reformatted it to something else, I did not check.
• When I was ready to do the install, with the hub, kb/mouse dongle and USB drive attached, I powered up the tablet and pressing “esc” on the keyboard brought up the BIOS. I think it was the last page of the BIOS where there was a “boot override” option. I chose my sandisk USB drive and away it all went, without any sort of hitch. On one of the many reboots it spent a lot of time “getting ready” (seemed like an age, maybe 15 minutes?) and I was beginning to think something had gone awry when it suddenly finished and went on to the next stage.
• It is still 32 bit Windows (as the original installation was) , I did not chance installing the 64 bit as I had read somewhere that the BIOS is incompatible on my particular tablet, even though the machine itself is 64 bit.

I think those were the main differences. Everything could not have gone more smoothly.

Thanks again for your excellent guide which made the whole process much less daunting!

 

[NickyP]

I bought a goldenfir 128gb 2242 drive from ali express because it was cheap and was the right size. Worked great for one week – now it’s not recognized in the BIOS. It was failing sometimes to boot after only a few days (booted into a shell command system) – but usually a reboot worked – until now. After working on something all afternoon and trying to save the work resulted in a complete freeze and now no booting at all.

In Disk Management it now shows as uninitialized  and I cannot initialize it.

Thank goodness I had made a macrium boot usb and a backup so I could install back to the eMMC.

I was having close down problems and was having to keep the power button depressed to close the machine down. Not sure if this contributed to the issue.

 

[NickyP]

It was not touchpad blocker causing this problem -the problem came back.
However after more research, this is working, thanks to Philip Tory http://www.tomsguide.com/answers/id-3226598/acer-aspire-shut-completely.html

1. Type Control Panel in the search box.
2. Click “Control Panel”.
3. Click “Power Options” (the view mode should be small icons)
4. In the left menu, click “Choose what the power buttons do”.
5. Click “Change settings that are currently unavailable”.
6. Scroll down to “Shutdown settings” and Uncheck “Turn on fast startup”.
7. Click “Save changes” and exit.

The blue light goes out almost immediately so I’m very hopeful the problem is solved. Again I will confirm in a day or two.

[NickyP]

Thanks …but no the ssd is hardly one third used. I have found the culprit I think…I turned off the pad blocker software and the problem goes away. Turning it back on causes the problem to return. I will report back in a day or two to confirm this was the cause of my problem. Thanks !!

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