They sold me 8.1 but was only 8.0 ; ASUS= Bull!!

"Best Buy" (the store) was deceptive and said I was getting an 8.1 machine laptop but it was only 8.0. I treated the machine as an 8.1 and all downloads from Microsoft updates refused to down load 8.1 saying that I was in fact only in 8.o!!

I thought I was in 8.1 and set up the machine as if it was 8.1.

Much turmoil ensured and I returned it and they wanted to charge me extra to install 8.1 (I attempted to down load 8.1 but each time there was a different down load problems from " not able to connect to update", to after 4 to 5 hours of downloading, and the update said "unable to complete update").

This was an ASUS laptop model X55iMA which also said that I was "connected but was not charging". This indicated to me that It was was a flawed machine ( I really do not know as I am n XP person).

I have a 2 year extended warranted and they treated me with scorn and duplicitness on my part.

This may have been an honest mistake on their part but their reluctance to accept my empirical data tells me that they do not want to be an honest broker to remedy the problem.

I called their Geek Squad and they said to simply bring it in for a check up and free update to 8.1, but once I went into the store they wanted the name of the geek squad person and his I.D. number!

They said that this was a necessary protocol to insure proper procedure and anti "lost control" measures. This means anti-con artist measures.

I hope I am wrong as they always were always in the past honorable.

 

This is indeed sounds like a fraud. Have you tried to upgrade via the ISO trick?

 

No, as the store has the machine and said they will up-grade it overnight. If they fail I will ask for a refund.

 

why blaming ASUS ?

 

The Box it came in stated it was Windows 8.1. And the store said it should have been an 8.1.

 

Why not call Asus customer service and request the proper CD's?

 

As the box clearly states that it is an 8.1 machine the manager agreed with me that there should be no charge. I will try to get ASUS to cough up a disk with the OS or an image of their system.

As I am completely in the dark as to how Windows 8.1 operates I will be doing a lot of reading of their Adobe based operators manual. It seems that there are extra partitions which may be restore images of some sort. I do not know how to get the capture screen function to work yet so I cannot show you the hard drive and it's divisions. I think I got the image.

EDIT: I now see that it is a restore image on one of the partitions. At least I have this.

The image came up before the text, sorry. I hope to learn uploading on 8.1 better.

 

cortez,

That certainly looks like a Win8.1 system. Disk Management has two small Recovery partitions (as does Win8.1) and you have a Start button. Does Window report itself as Win8? Where do you see Win8? Right click the desktop computer icon, click Properties. Look at Windows edition.

On the desktop, is the computer icon called "Computer" or "This PC"?

 

Sorry for your problem. Microsoft is so screwed up with Windows 8, 8.1, and Update 1 that no one seems to know what is going on. They have all kinds of problems, so it's no wonder BestBuy, Asus or anyone else involved with selling pc's with Windows has difficulty knowing what they are selling. Microsoft bear the vast majority of the responsibility for this - they rushed Windows 8, 8.1 and Update 1 too fast without thinking of the users at all. Their wonderful Windows Store is having so many problems that it's laughable. Hang in there, eventually you will get it figured out. It took me a week and many Microsoft calls to get Update 1 installed on one of my pc's. (The others went fine)

 

Yes the "system" item (when left clicking the windows icon) does state it is a Windows 8.1.

Now the real work learning the quirks of Windows 8.1 begins for me (I still have 2 XP machines and still use them with SBIE and so far no real problems).

I must admit I am a dinosaur in regards to 8.1.

 

If the system states 8.1 and you have the task bar what is the issue here?

 

cortez,

We are confused because we don't know when your Disk Management screenshot was taken. Was it after the computer was unpacked or after you took it back to the shop?

 

After the shop added the 8.1

Seems to working OK now.