Well, finally after hours with Microsoft on the phone with techs who, well english was not their 1st language-not their fault but made it tough on me.
I was asking how I could install win 8 pro upg on a blank SSD? Boy th run around.
 
But, well I bet you guys already know this or at least some of you do-
There is NO Win 8 Upgrade DVD-they never made one-they just call it that .
 
But it took 6 people before I was told that-the first 5 said you cannot do it???????

I installed W8, everything was hunky dory. Then woke up one morning, turned the pc on and no sound, no mouse, no keyboard. 

Did a "replace" restore which effectively wiped my "C" HD.  Disk image corrupt. The total. 

Took me three days to correctly re-install and re-activate everything.

All audio data is of course stored on a separate HD which is regularly backed up. Ouf !!!

So i'm now back to W7 and will not even think about re-up grading again in the forseeable future.

My 2€ cents.

Cheers,
Jerry

Yep, you can do a clean install. Just do a Google search for Windows 8 Clean Install and you'll find a bunch of articles on how to do it.

Scott

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Strat you really should have asked me. Unlike Vista that required 2 installs for a clean install of the upgrade disk Win 8 is just a simple matter of install it and be done.  For me it was the easiest install I ever did. Also for the first time I felt I could actually leave the room while it did its thing. 

As a matter of fact I don't no how to install it over another OS as an upgrade. LOL

I'm glad you got it all sorted out.

I had cause to call MS support some years back and the guy I got was in India. Clearly you did not get this guy because he was tenacious in his helping me. It took a long time and he even had to call me back but he did so quickly and he walked me through how to fix the problem. He was patient and thorough. I have nothing but respect for him and how hard he worked for me. 

   

I just did a clean install from an upgrade disc this morning

well, like I said you guys probably knew already (see op) I did search google-first 2 said no way-so I stopped. But actually had another issue-the iso that I downloaded was no good. Verified fine when I burned it to disk but that just verified he burn, not the iso itself. That really su^$5^.
Finally got my "other" copy-bought it on amazon weeks ago. Used that and even used the dowenload iso key. Worked fine.
I do remember when the key depended on the type of windows media-remember that crap-oem or with sp1 or w/o sp1.
Gues they didn't do that either this time.
 
I'm ok-my only regret is I may not have time tonoght to try my brand new Octacapture :-) Looks pretty though
 
Thanks guys. I will post back to the orig thread I started about the OC and USB 3.0 ports after I know for sure

John


Strat you really should have asked me. Unlike Vista that required 2 installs for a clean install of the upgrade disk Win 8 is just a simple matter of install it and be done.  For me it was the easiest install I ever did. Also for the first time I felt I could actually leave the room while it did its thing. 

As a matter of fact I don't no how to install it over another OS as an upgrade. LOL

I'm glad you got it all sorted out.

I had cause to call MS support some years back and the guy I got was in India. Clearly you did not get this guy because he was tenacious in his helping me. It took a long time and he even had to call me back but he did so quickly and he walked me through how to fix the problem. He was patient and thorough. I have nothing but respect for him and how hard he worked for me. 

 

Hey John
 
Actually the last guy I got was great!

Finally got my "other" copy-bought it on amazon weeks ago. Used that and even used the dowenload iso key. Worked fine.

That was a question I have not seen answered anywhere. So the boxed version Windows Pro Upgrade DVD's will work using a key purchased via the online upgrade assistant at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/upgrade-to-windows-8 ? I assume that the DVD you use has to match the version of the upgrade you downloaded. In other words if you use a machine running a 64 bit OS (XP, Vista, Win 7), which is going to download an ISO of the 64 bit win8Pro, you would only be able to use the 64-bit DVD version from the box to match with that key? Or were you able to use a key purchased from a 32 bit computer to install 64 bit boxed DVD or vice versa?

I think the boxed DVD version includes both 32-bit and 64-bit, although, I'm not totally positive about that.

Scott

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I received both in the Windows 8 Pro I ordered from MS. 2 DVDs.