Windows 8 Dev release

Risco said:

Can I install to an external USB drive? As in to be able to boot and run it from it?

I am a little unsure if you mean to Install windows 8 from a USB drive or actually run the OS from a pen drive?

If you do mean install from USB drive then this guide should do the trick:
Create Bootable USB or DVD - Windows 8 Developer Preview ISO

Sorry i can't be of more help with actually running Windows 8 from the pen drive

Regards,
JDobbsy1987

I played with a GUI pack a couple of weeks ago and I found it to be awful.

I can't install it in VMware Workstation.
"HAL - Initialization failure"

cluberti said:

I am quite taken aback at the number of people posting here who don't understand that this is not a fully-functioning OS, and that it's target audience with the current design is developers and OEMs, not consumers (and as such, it's going to have silly things that will affect usability - this build doesn't care about that, it cares about giving devs and OEMs a platform to start building things against).

I am also a little surprised at all the negative comments, this is a pre-beta, unpolished, platform for the sole purpose of getting developers to make apps for the Windows 8 tablet Metro UI.
If there are no apps for the Win8 tablet - metro, it will fail.

There are thousands of Windows 7/8 laptop/desktop apps already, I didn't expect them to focus on the laptop/desktop, yet.
I sincerely hope they do a lot more work on it and think they will.

I'm not sold on windows 8 in it's present form, but think it has definite possibilities.
If it is more customizable, turn off Metro and the choice of keep other functions, have a legacy Win7 start menu option, a much better way to switch between desktop and metro, then they will please most people.

Choices are what everyone wants, and should get.

Still waiting for Beta.

FWIW: I found on another forum a reference to creating a vhd and running the dev preview on your existing win 7 machine.

Dual Boot Windows 8 from VHD using Windows Setup | Concurrency Blog

is the web site that was referenced and it seems pretty straight forward.

rich

currently burning iso ,see you on the flip side.....soon...ish.

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.

richnrockville said:

FWIW: I found on another forum a reference to creating a vhd and running the dev preview on your existing win 7 machine.

Dual Boot Windows 8 from VHD using Windows Setup | Concurrency Blog

is the web site that was referenced and it seems pretty straight forward.

rich

Brink already has a tutorial for installing Windows 8 on a VirtualBox VHD.

VirtualBox - Install Windows 8 Developer Preview

If I was going to make separate partitions, I would just dual boot, that's just me.
VB just uses you current disk space, you can choose which partition if you have more than one.
I'm running Win8 on my SSD with one Win7 partition.

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.

Shawn has been busy, as usual.

How to Do a Clean Install of Windows 8
See #6.

How's that for a quick answer? :)

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.

boohbah

It should prompt you right after you select custom/advanced install just the same as 7.

Danny

excellent thanks ,i chose to keep files so that promt for custom didnt appear, luckily my instict to run away was sound,