Windows 8 Dev release

Glad you caught it in time.

actually i realise that i didnt BOOT from the disc and that was why , previously i didnt see the first screen about selecting keyboard etc, not long now......

Yay! this is coming from win 8 dev. bit strange int it

boohbah said:

Yay! this is coming from win 8 dev. bit strange int it

Welcome to the future :)

I installed it on a separate hard drive and have a dual boot with my Win 7. First impression is "ugh" - and this is from someone that spent their entire working career in computers (since 1962) and is conditioned to accepting change. I've never given any previous OS an "ugh". This "apps icons" as used for a phone is OK (I have an Android phone) but not for a Desktop production computer.

I'll reserve any more than the "ugh" until I have more time to work with it.

boohbah said:

quick question, at which point in the installation does it ask which drive you want to install to? ,as when it got to the install section there was no prompt, i panicked and cancelled, there is no way im overwriting my 7 installation.

Of course you have an image on an external drive?

I used acronis 2012 to clone my win 7 disk to another disk and then booted that disk. And then ran the upgrade.

works but not many of my old programs would work. Can't seem to find office 2010 anywhere on the disk.
But then I guess I will wait for the real beta..

rich

Has anyone tried the method on this blog?
Dual Boot Windows 8 from VHD using Windows Setup | Concurrency Blog

Can the VHD be located anywhere or MUST it be mounted in the W7 OS partition?

I only have 15 GB available in that partition.
I have 100s of GB available in other partitions.

lehnerus2000 said:

Has anyone tried the method on this blog?
Dual Boot Windows 8 from VHD using Windows Setup | Concurrency Blog

Can the VHD be located anywhere or MUST it be mounted in the W7 OS partition?

I only have 15 GB available in that partition.
I have 100s of GB available in other partitions.

I used a similar method. This is the simplest I've seen to not use a virtual machine app or installing directly to your machine (as primary OS).

Windows 8 VHD - Create at Boot to Dual Boot with - Windows 8 Forums

I think it should be able to be outside of your smaller partition. Besides, among the last steps is to set the boot data. At first, I thought this was too simple to work as easy as it does.

well after a couple of hours playing ,i think it is really nice, its very fast and im not sure about all the apps but several of them are good and i have figured out how to pin my firefox to the start page so thats a bonus,
the weather app is nice after puting in my reigon i have a animated beach scene quite nice

Win7User512 said:

I used a similar method. This is the simplest I've seen to not use a virtual machine app or installing directly to your machine (as primary OS).

Mister Goodcat | Installing Windows 8 Developer Preview as bootable VHD

I think it should be able to be outside of your smaller partition. At first, I thought this was too simple to work as easy as it does.

Thanks Win7User512. :)

The article seems to use a different partition.

I'll image my operating systems and then give it a try on the weekend.

I'd Rep you, but there doesn't seem to be a button on this thread.