Windows 8 stable enough to use as Main OS?

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Ambroos

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I was planning to try it out in VirtualBox, but never knew about the VHDs. Does anyone know if VHDs work and is safe to do in bootcamped Windows 7 on a Macbook Pro?

Should work perfectly on a Macbook Pro or on any computer really!

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While both are free, VPC7 has usability issues compared to VirtualBox, especially for non-Windows guests - does Hyper-V address this even a little by comparison?

That's an excellent question, but until a few days ago I had assumed that VPC was essentially just the desktop implementation of Hyper-V. I'm not sure :blink:

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Ambroos

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Thanks! I will try it out in VirtualBox first to see if its worthy to install on a VHD.

Virtualbox would actually take longer and work much less smoothly since you wouldn't have proper access to all your hardware, and it'll run like **** without proper video drivers... VHD is pretty straighforward you know...

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Axel

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If you don't even know about dual-booting, you have no business even messing with a Developer Preview build of an OS. If you're not a developer, you shouldn't be messing around with it.

Plus, bro, can't you take 3 seconds and give your two drives labels?

I'd say that's a bit harsh. If you don't mess around with things you'll never learn. I learnt most things on computers by messing them up and having to fix the mess.

To the OP. If you're going to experiment with a pre-beta OS as a rule of thumb just don't expect it to work properly. Expect the worst. Expect it to be terrible and prepare for a full format and reinstall of your original OS. If you have that in the back of your mind then you won't be dissapointed. :-)

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Virtualbox would actually take longer and work much less smoothly since you wouldn't have proper access to all your hardware, and it'll run like **** without proper video drivers... VHD is pretty straighforward you know...

I know that it won't be such a good experience if installed in a VM, but thanks for the advice.

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McKay

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Another stupid question, is it possible to install Windows 8 to an external USB Harddrive? I have an unused 500GB USB Drive sitting around.

Could I;

1.Install Windows 8 to it

2. Set BIOS to boot from USB

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Thunderbuck

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Another stupid question, is it possible to install Windows 8 to an external USB Harddrive? I have an unused 500GB USB Drive sitting around.

Could I;

1.Install Windows 8 to it

2. Set BIOS to boot from USB

That would actually be a totally AWESOME approach. Unfortunately, at least for now, it probably won't work.

It DOES look like this is going to be implemented in some form, though.

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Ambroos

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Another stupid question, is it possible to install Windows 8 to an external USB Harddrive? I have an unused 500GB USB Drive sitting around.

Could I;

1.Install Windows 8 to it

2. Set BIOS to boot from USB

Windows 7 didn't support it, so I strongly doubt Windows 8 will. It'd require a complete rewrite of the USB stack in Windows...

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Darrian

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I plan on installing it as my primary and sole OS in a few hours when I get my grubby little hands on it. I should think it should run just as well as Windows 7, with some extras. AFAIK they haven't changed the driver models any so Windows 7 drivers should work. If I have any major issues over the next few days you can be sure I'll post something about my troubles and probably will go back to Windows 7 depending on the severity, but as long as there aren't any glaring incompatibilities I don't foresee any major issues. They made sure to repeat several times that it is fully compatible with any program Windows 7 can run.

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I plan on installing it as my primary and sole OS in a few hours when I get my grubby little hands on it. I should think it should run just as well as Windows 7, with some extras. AFAIK they haven't changed the driver models any so Windows 7 drivers should work. If I have any major issues over the next few days you can be sure I'll post something about my troubles and probably will go back to Windows 7 depending on the severity, but as long as there aren't any glaring incompatibilities I don't foresee any major issues. They made sure to repeat several times that it is fully compatible with any program Windows 7 can run.

Exactly my thoughts, albeit I'll be installing on another partition. Unless there is a really annoying bug that prevents my daily use, which isn't a lot, hopefully I can work with it as my main OS. But if it proves too cumbersome, then I will just have to let it go until a more stable pre-beta build comes along over the next couple of months.

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DeadEndAccount

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Reiterating what others have already said - it is a pre-beta version which has still a long way to go before it is stable and feature complete. IMHO wait till at least minimum of Beta 1 before using it for every day stuff.

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BoDEAN

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Running it now without problems. Here is a live preview I did on Google+

You can watch the YouTube video :)

404. That?s an error.

The requested URL was not found on this server. That?s all we know.

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neufuse Veteran

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I'm sorry, but anyone who calls this a PUBLIC BETA should NOT be running this OS.

it's more like a public run and crash.... had it since last night and could not get it to install in any VM's x86 or x64 not sure why just kept getting the light blue :( screen... get it working on normal hardware and its flaky at best with the ability to crash it randomly

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