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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......
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.
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.
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.
Last edited by Brink; 28 Sep 2011 at 13:25. Reason: replaced link with one of ours for the same thing.
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