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I’ve purchased a Windows 8 upgrade for my Windows 7 machine. While upgrading I ran into a problem.

The upgrade came to 100%, and then said “Your computer will reboot in a few moments”. After a few minutes it came up with a general error “Windows 8 Setup could not complete” and then it closed. My computer didn’t reboot, and Windows 7 just kept on running.

After removing some applications like my virus scanner (NOD32) and some other applications i tried again. After about an hour I got exactly the same error.

Then I found the following error:
ConX::Setup::Media::CWorkerProc::SetupThreadProc: An error occurred while servicing the boot files from [C:\$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows\BOOT]; status = [0x80070015][gle=0x00000015]

After a lot of searching I’ve found the following solution:
Add a drive letter to the 100MB system partition which resides at the beginning of your harddisk. I assigned the letter S.

After I did this, the setup continued where it previously stopped with an error, and Windows 8 was installed like it should.

When Windows 8 was completely installed, I removed the drive letter from the partition. After this, Windows 8 was running flawlessly.

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tweetdeck-02-676x535I’ve recently upgraded my Windows 7 installation to Windows 8. Unfortunately Tweetdeck wouldn’t connect to my account anymore and showed the not so useful error “Unable to connect”.

After a lot of searching I’ve found a simple and unlogical solution:

  1. Start Internet Explorer
  2. Navigate to https://api.tweetdeck.com
  3. Navigate to https://twitter.com
  4. Close Internet Explorer
  5. Start Tweetdeck
  6. Log in to your account

Now Tweetdeck works like it should, and profile images should appear again.