Windows 8 Dev build

Old BIOS did not let you choose individual drives, it was primary IDE master and that's all, maybe checking further drives. There's also a rule I don't remember about DOS, maybe it wanted to be on a primary partition on the first drive. But the BIOS is dumb, if it lets you choose the drive it will probably believe it's the first one..

I kept a DOS partition for long, a custom MBR made by a freeware partition tool would allow a very crude multiboot. I was so proud of this because I could flash BIOSes very easily, and thought having the swapfile on fat32 was marvelous, of course in the end I would update graphics card's BIOS which would not change anything, and I would make my computer swap when running the heaviest games.
 
dos = primary partition on 1st physical drive, primary partition on 2nd physical drive ect
then logical drives on extended partitions.
the goes back to the 1st physical drive and looks for additional primary partions, then does the same for additional drives.
 
Arwin said:
I think the biggest draw of Windows 8 will be the 'App Store'. I think when the consumer version is out I'll go for it and use my $15 upgrade option, get an SSD (postponed that just for this) on my new PC and see where I end up.

Is it possible to change the boot setting so that if I boot from SSD, I get Windows 8, and if I boot from my main drive, I get my current Windows 7 setup?
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I'm pretty much in the same boat, I.e waiting for 8 before getting an SSD. I always try to wait for an os upgrade to coincide with a hdd upgrade. Great idea about dual boot though, I'm definately not ready to give up 7 yet but want to give 8 a proper chance to win me over. First new os ever though that I'm not completely certain about wanting to upgrade.
 
surely when you install win 8 it will see your previous o/s and give you the option of what drive to install to and dual boot with a menu of which o/s to start much like previous o/s's. No need to invoke the bios boot menu
the only thing i didnt like about the vista install was I had xp drive 1 c: and a blank formatted drive d:
previous o/s's would install onto the second drive and be labeled d:,
so old os = c: new o/s = d:

when I had xp on c: and installed vista onto the second drive, I would boot into xp and it would be c: then boot into vista expecting it to be d: but vista would re-label the drive c:
so I had the following
xp =c:
vista =c:
instead of
xp = c:
vista =d:

even though vista was installed onto the second drive, I wasnt happy with that
It also put a hell of a lot of files onto c: with the permission set to owner/creator and the were a nightmare to delete
 
I'd be tempted by a 32GB ssd, though the idea would be more to run linux mint cinnamon on it :eek:

But seeing how 8 scales down to tablets it would be very interesting if it was lightweight enough to run on 32GB. I don't hold my breath though, tablets will actually lack the desktop and win32. But Windows 7 can be run at that size ; only I wonder how much it would creep up under the weight of updates and .dlls

Win 9x was better, you could better choose components at install so if you didn't want e.g. wordpad you unchecked the box!
Ideally give me Metro IE if you need but not desktop IE, no wordpad, no windows media player and even no notepad if I feel like using some freeware or opensource with features like line numbers, tabs, syntax coloring and opening damn unix text.
 
WinSxS folder in Windows bloats the install size without actually using that space using hard links so files are counted twice. Is this fixed in 8?
 
Hmm, I'm debating whether to virtualize Windows 8 on my Retina MacBook Pro or just stick with Win 7 (I have keys for Professional editions of both).

I dislike the removal of the start menu, however is it true that Win 8 has much better support for multitouch than 7? So scrolling, pinch to zoom and other gestures are much more fluid than they currently are (which is spotty, at least on my intuos5 touch tablet)
 
I was amazed to find out I had some multitouch operation on an old (but amazing on its own ways) piece of crap, an eee PC 901 with 4GB + 8GB ssd. It's on linux mint 12 lxde and a buddy, its owner, told me I could use two fingers and simulate the scrollwheel this way (and even middle-click).

I was dumfounded so in my opinion, go for recent software. I know windows 8 has two start menus already, Classic Shell and Start8, even though I never used windows 8.
 
Classic Shell would be perfect if it had "favorites" in the menu, as in 98 and XP. For a few years I totally relied on that feature, I would always use it to get to the music folder, the movies, the collection of tools and drivers etc.
 
Bludd said:
WinSxS folder in Windows bloats the install size without actually using that space using hard links so files are counted twice. Is this fixed in 8?
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:oops:

Is it me or the clock loses synchronisation all the time and needs to synchronise very often with time servers?
Is it connected somehow with stop responding of this service or somehow connected with how the central processor executes. :???:

In Windows XP the problem is not so emphasised - it gets a little bit inaccurate but not that much as in Windows 7- dozens of seconds... :oops:
 
Sometimes large drifitng clocks are an issue of your cmos battery so you might want to check or replace that. I haven't had those extreme drifting clock issues since switching to higher quality motherboards.
 
If you have $882 to blow you can use the full version, called Server 2012, it's more flexible in how you install and use it.
Else you probably have to hack it away.
 
Well I don't know. you at least have stuff like server core, minimal GUI :
http://blogs.technet.com/b/server_c...configuring-the-minimal-server-interface.aspx

license for $882 allows one physical host and two VM.
If you have a lot of money you can use Server Windows as a desktop, as usual, I would do it long before getting a high end car just because I don't want to feel crippled and like funny features.


I wonder how you control access to the store, even in windows pro or home.
If you believe only the Administrator can install software then it should be logical that a limited user be disallowed to run it. You want to rid of it altogether, well it could be one more disabled component sitting on your OS drive, maybe taking a few megabytes. The store probably just is an "app" and the sandbox, libraries, take more space.

As a lenient but strict admin you could allow the user to install things from the app store, but not allow him/her to install regular programs, and even forbid the user to run executables on user accessible folders including usb drives. (like noexec mounting in linux/unix, I hope Windows has that?)
So, the user could run sandboxed toys and tools akin to iphone apps or widgets, but be subject to the admin's tyrannical rule for everything else :).
 
Blazkowicz said:
Classic Shell would be perfect if it had "favorites" in the menu, as in 98 and XP. For a few years I totally relied on that feature, I would always use it to get to the music folder, the movies, the collection of tools and drivers etc.
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But it already has Favorites. In fact, you can add ANY folder, any item from your file system to it. Just go to the "Customize Start Menu" tab.
 
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