I have windows 7 installed on my dell studio 1555, now I want to install windows consumer preview in a different partition so that my system becomes dual bootable. But I want to know if I want to uninstall windows 8 how can I do that without damaging windows 7 installation?
@topgear, I will try this, thanks
@Vyom, thanks for suggestion, but actually my processor does not support hardware virtualization which is necessary to vrtualize windows 8
Well actually I have tried to install this on oracle virtualbox first, it shows the error that your processor does not support hardware virtualization technology, then I came to know from researching that windows 8 needs hardware virtualization technology to run virtually
Well actually I have tried to install this on oracle virtualbox first, it shows the error that your processor does not support hardware virtualization technology, then I came to know from researching that windows 8 needs hardware virtualization technology to run virtually
Use Latest trial version of vmware(this one also 8) and test windows 8 with it,do not worry about hardware virtualization as it is needed in Microsoft's virtual pc.
Well, i didn't have to follow a guide to uninstall it. I had XP in dual mode with win 8. And i had to remove win 8.
What I did was to format the drive on which win 8 was installed and then use the following commands in recovery console of windows XP to get back the bootloader of XP:
^^ Believe it or not, but those three commands were easy to type in for me, than to figure out what to do in EasyBCD, without the fear of messing it up more.
Well, i didn't have to follow a guide to uninstall it. I had XP in dual mode with win 8. And i had to remove win 8.
What I did was to format the drive on which win 8 was installed and then use the following commands in recovery console of windows XP to get back the bootloader of XP:
Ok if you are curious about Windows 8 I have been using the Consumer Preview right form the day it was out(+ downloading time). I am using the 64bit version. In a word it is Good. As can be expected form a pre-release version there are a lot of internal issues which do not affect the over all feel of it. You will experience it when installing softwares. Nothing major though can be solved by changing the compatibility settings.
here is the list of the shiny things in windows 8 :
1. The Booting process is much faster than Windows 7.
2. Next comes the Lock Screen. Its beautiful. (Check out Lock screen images on Google.)
3. The arrow keys slides the Lock Screen upwards and you get the Login boxes. You can have a Microsoft mail account (Live, Hotmail etc) which syncs online or a local account like before. I obviously choose the online account. In case you lose internet connectivity you will fall back to the local account without any hassle.
4. Directly after this comes the Start Screen with all them tiles and whatever some of them 'live' like Mail, People, Messages Whether etc. which sync in the background. These are my favourite things in Windows 8.
The Apps :
Mail : common mail client for all providers.
People :this cute thing rounds us all your contacts / friends from social networks / mail contacts etc. and give you links to see their updates upon clicking them. You can also chat with them no matter where ever they are signed into in Messages.
Weather : don't worry about it not available in India yet. same for Xbox Live Games, Music , Video which I think are just libraries to organise your Collection.
For Music and Video you can select a file and Open it with these Apps which are useless only pause play buttons. WMP does it better.
Also Internet Explorer 10 : looks sexy with options for basic browsing the web. Right Click only has three options.
Also there is no X button on the right top corner to close an app. Pressing the windows key brings up the Start Screen where you get to select something else you want to work on. Apps move in to the background and if you want to close them, you have to hover to the left edge of the screen which slides out the a panel where all the open apps are shown. You can switch to one here or right click and close.
The Start Screen can be reached by pressing the Windows key on the keyboard. It contains tiles for the desktop and My Computer (which will bring out the desktop). No windows Orb on the desktop. My computer has been redesigned on the top bar. Includes buttons to Computer management, Control Panel etc.
Most important feature is the Charms panel which comes up when you reach your pointer to the right top or bottom. Search Share Start Devices Settings are the options there. Search is nice you can search for files and Apps there. Share : I keep getting nothing can be shared form your desktop right now.
Most important one is settings : That's where the power options are hidden.
More or less this is a fine version of windows. Don't buy It if you are not really interested in upgrading I'd say. It will take some good amount of time getting used to this Windows. Don't lose patience.
I wasn't getting any sleep so I typed all this. If you liked it give me some reputation. Else tell me I'll make a sexy PDF in Adobe InDesign CS5.5 with nice pictures and stuff and send it to you so that you can view it in the inbuilt PDF reader in Windows 8. Yes ?
If you liked it give me some reputation. Else tell me I'll make a sexy PDF in Adobe InDesign CS5.5 with nice pictures and stuff and send it to you so that you can view it in the inbuilt PDF reader in Windows 8. Yes ?
VM is good method to test OS..but the important point to remember is sufficient hardware is needed so that a good amount or RAM & HDD space can be allocated to the Guest OS
