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S.T.A.R.S. said:
Hey imagine this lol :D:

Microsoft decides to remove the partition manager so you can install Windows 8 immediately,but once the installation starts,you realize that entire HDD is being formatted and that ONLY one partition is created which will be big as the entire HDD and on which Windows 8 will install.A second later you realize: "OH SH!T ALL MY DATA IS GONE!!!"

LOL!!!
Oh man I wish I can see people's face in that moment :D:D:D

Anyway I am just kidding lol.Microsoft will surely put partition manager.I hope lol because if they don't that is going to be the worst Windows ever xD
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it tells you it is going to wipe everything. And I meant I havent found the partition manager for use inside windows.
 
wolfeking said:
it tells you it is going to wipe everything. And I meant I havent found the partition manager for use inside windows.
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Huh thank God :P
Well let's hope Microsoft won't forget to put partition manager inside Windows ^^

I remember when I tryed first Windows Vista beta edition.They forgot to put calculator program in them xD I guess they have been focused on so much other stuff that they simply forgot on a simple calculator xD
 
S.T.A.R.S. said:
Huh thank God :P
Well let's hope Microsoft won't forget to put partition manager inside Windows ^^

I remember when I tryed first Windows Vista beta edition.They forgot to put calculator program in them xD I guess they have been focused on so much other stuff that they simply forgot on a simple calculator xD
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yea. And I saw somewhere when I was trying to find paint, that on first release they had forgot Calc, notepad, Paint and wordpad. but apparently they fixed it pretty fast, or just included 7's versions.
 
It's so funny actually.How is it possible they forgot Paint,Notepad,Wordpad and Calculator lmao!
Or maybe they did it on purpose because they have been working on newer version of them,but still...not to put Paint,Notepad,Wordpad and Calculator in Windows OS anyway to me is like I am listening a music without speakers lol.I use Paint (almost every day),Notepad,Wordpad and Calculator every day.I can't live without them haha!So they could at least put XP versions inside while they are working on newer versions :P

God knows what they will forget to put in Windows 8 :P
 
they did put visual studio 11 in there. lol, and lots of useless apps. Reminds me of iOS, but without the Istore. They have windows marketplace included, but its not operational, so no finding apps I actually want.
 
The partition manager is still there, in the exact same place it is in 7, windows 8 will overwirte the bootloader but you can still choose which os to go into or you put it back the way it was before win 8.
 
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god this is pretty cool, now i'm gunna try out some games in a sec after downloading, but this looks awsome, if it works well enough with games i'm gonna remove the partition and try to go full win8 and ubuntu
 
jonnyp11 said:
god this is pretty cool, now i'm gunna try out some games in a sec after downloading, but this looks awsome, if it works well enough with games i'm gonna remove the partition and try to go full win8 and ubuntu
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I wouldn't wipe 7 off your comp, this build is unstable, significantly so, although it may be fine for now you are likely to run into problems. Off course you can always reinstall 7 but it may be best to just install it on a separate partition.

Also it is worth noting that ms will release a beta soon enough and that will be much more stable.
 
yeah, I've already been having some issues with it, mainly, how do i close programs opened from the new menu, i don't see any form of buttons, onlt thing i can do is cntrl alt del and then end them.
 
cause 8 detected the card, which tells me that it is working to some extent. It may just need better drivers, or a wire tightened or something. Ill tear it apart soon and check everything to see exactly whats wrong.
 
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yeah, I've already been having some issues with it, mainly, how do i close programs opened from the new menu, i don't see any form of buttons, onlt thing i can do is cntrl alt del and then end them.
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You're not supposed to close Metro apps. When you switch away from them they are suspended so they use very little resources. I'm not sure if the OS will close them at some point if memory is needed but they are normally left suspended in memory so that they can quickly be resumed.
 
8 is a Full copy, not OEM (reactivated on an AMD machine just fine).
Also, having trouble getting a CCC to work. Downloading a beta to try, but not expecting much.

edit: beta driver installed fine. Going to try MOH and see how it performs under 8.
 
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CrayonMuncher said:
I think in windows 8 the apps just stay open, kinda of like how they do on a smartphone.

I could have sworn someone in this thread said it wont work on anything below the system requirements, but I seem to have found this.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/16/windows-8-aint-fussy-runs-on-macs-surface-128mb-ram-banana/
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didnt say it wouldnt run, I said it wouldnt install from desktop. and below is evidence.
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wolfeking said:
didnt say it wouldnt run, I said it wouldnt install from desktop. and below is evidence.
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I thought you were saying that windows 8 performed a system check to ensure it met the system requirments, where as in the link I posted they had it running on 128MB of ram.
 
I hope that is just temporary.Because if Windows 8 will need minimum 1 GB of RAM to even install at all then that just sucks lol!
 
well as they were pointing out above, and i did, if you boot to the cd/usb then it will install, i got it on my personal computer and family comps in my sig, and although a little messy sometimes with my xp 2400+, it seems to be a good bit faster still then xp ever was. also i noticed it actually pics up my wifi adapter on win8 without the drivers on there, and my adapter doesn't even have win7 supporting adapters, so that was a nice supprize, especially since currently when i boot, it won't let me go to xp, and if i remove the hdd with win 8 it goes to a screen with like a grub command prompt style thing, so it like destroyed my win-xp boot file thingy somehow even though i did the advanced/custom install stuff and on a separate hdd too, anyone got any ideas, would my win-xp upgrade disk be able to repair it and fix this?
 
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