I spent many days several months ago trying to upgrade from 8 to 8.1. Every attempt failed, I'd fix the error, and try again. New error. Repeat process. New error.
After a while I gave up.
Now I want to go to Windows 10. I have to get to 8.1 first.
I updated all of my drivers and BOIS.
Then I tried to go from 8 to 8.1.
After more than 48 hours of "Downloading", I read more troubleshooting. Found an entry which suggested cleaning out Windows Store cache. Did it, that stopped the download.
Started downloading again. It's been 24 hours now.
More reading. Found an entry suggesting that I download 8.1 to a USB drive. Am doing that now.
If the USB drive creates properly, what do I do next?
Remember, my goal is to get to Windows 10.