[anderson7]

i have windows 7 installed on my C drive and want the fresh install windows 8 in my D drive. But i try to install windows 8 fresh copy it has only the upgrade option.
It starting upgrade windows 7 to 8, anybody know how to install windows 8 as dual boot with windows 7.

This post has been edited by bcappel: 13 March 2012 - 09:17 AM
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[Rommel]

anderson7, on 13 March 2012 - 04:10 AM, said:

i have windows 7 installed on my C drive and want the fresh install windows 8 in my D drive. But i try to install windows 8 fresh copy it has only the upgrade option.
It starting upgrade windows 7 to 8, anybody know how to install windows 8 as dual boot with windows 7.

Unplug C:

Install 8 on D:

Plug C: back in.

Set default drive in bios.
During boot, I think F8, will allow you to change to the other drive.

This post has been edited by bcappel: 13 March 2012 - 09:17 AM

[orlbuckeye]

anderson7, on 13 March 2012 - 04:10 AM, said:

i have windows 7 installed on my C drive and want the fresh install windows 8 in my D drive. But i try to install windows 8 fresh copy it has only the upgrade option.
It starting upgrade windows 7 to 8, anybody know how to install windows 8 as dual boot with windows 7.

I didn't install Winodws 8 in a separate partitian but I installed on a virtual machine as a clean install and not an upgrade. I would never install a BETA as an upgrade since it will eventually expire and when the released produce comes out it will be a clean install. I would thing if you tell it to install to D the boot manager will automatically be updated and allow you to edit it.

Yes I found this article that tells you how.

http://lifehacker.co...-8-side-by-side

This post has been edited by bcappel: 13 March 2012 - 09:17 AM

[LincolnSpector]

Hi, folks. Sorry I got to this so late.

I strongly recommend installing it in a virtual machine. Oracle VMVirtualBox already supports Win8 as a client.


Lincoln

[LiveBrianD]

LincolnSpector, on 23 March 2012 - 10:09 AM, said:

Hi, folks. Sorry I got to this so late.

I strongly recommend installing it in a virtual machine. Oracle VMVirtualBox already supports Win8 as a client.

Lincoln

The virtualbox video driver doesn't seem to work there though (you're stuck with the standard VGA driver), at least with 64-bit Windows 8. Try vmware player instead, I have vmware workstation (not free) and that works just fine with Win8 64-bit.

[LincolnSpector]

LiveBrianD, on 23 March 2012 - 02:52 PM, said:

LincolnSpector, on 23 March 2012 - 10:09 AM, said:

Hi, folks. Sorry I got to this so late.

I strongly recommend installing it in a virtual machine. Oracle VMVirtualBox already supports Win8 as a client.

Lincoln

The virtualbox video driver doesn't seem to work there though (you're stuck with the standard VGA driver), at least with 64-bit Windows 8. Try vmware player instead, I have vmware workstation (not free) and that works just fine with Win8 64-bit.

That's weird. I've installed it twice now, and have had no such problems.

Lincoln

[LiveBrianD]

Hmm... it installed for me, but in device manager, I found the driver wasn't actually running, some conflict or something, and it showed an error.

[orlbuckeye]

LincolnSpector, on 25 March 2012 - 08:11 AM, said:

LiveBrianD, on 23 March 2012 - 02:52 PM, said:

LincolnSpector, on 23 March 2012 - 10:09 AM, said:

Hi, folks. Sorry I got to this so late.

I strongly recommend installing it in a virtual machine. Oracle VMVirtualBox already supports Win8 as a client.

Lincoln

The virtualbox video driver doesn't seem to work there though (you're stuck with the standard VGA driver), at least with 64-bit Windows 8. Try vmware player instead, I have vmware workstation (not free) and that works just fine with Win8 64-bit.

That's weird. I've installed it twice now, and have had no such problems.

Lincoln

I installed the 32 bit Windows 8 and i have no problem with my ATI graphics card going to max resolution. The one problem I do have is it doesn't see my Cam.

[GamerSim]

I was trying to install windows in the virtual box and I manged to get up to the step where I open the thing I made and I got it open but it didn't start installing Windows 8 like the intrusions said it would instead it just shows this picture of fish. So I'm not sure if I did something wrong or what. But if someone could help me out that would be great.

[LiveBrianD]

It shows the fish for a few moments, and then boots into setup (which looks like it did with Vista and 7, only uglier). Is there any hard drive activity? (look at the bottom right of the virtualbox window)

[orlbuckeye]

anderson7, on 13 March 2012 - 04:10 AM, said:

i have windows 7 installed on my C drive and want the fresh install windows 8 in my D drive. But i try to install windows 8 fresh copy it has only the upgrade option.
It starting upgrade windows 7 to 8, anybody know how to install windows 8 as dual boot with windows 7.

I would never dual boot a Beta product because it EXPIRES. I recommend you install VirtualBox by Oracle and install Windows 8 as a virtual machine. No if you have a spare pc thats different.

[waldojim]

orlbuckeye, on 19 April 2012 - 11:59 AM, said:

anderson7, on 13 March 2012 - 04:10 AM, said:

i have windows 7 installed on my C drive and want the fresh install windows 8 in my D drive. But i try to install windows 8 fresh copy it has only the upgrade option.
It starting upgrade windows 7 to 8, anybody know how to install windows 8 as dual boot with windows 7.

I would never dual boot a Beta product because it EXPIRES. I recommend you install VirtualBox by Oracle and install Windows 8 as a virtual machine. No if you have a spare pc thats different.

Windows 8 runs like crap in a virtual box - runs great as a stand alone OS though.

[LiveBrianD]

It seems to run well under VMware workstation 8 though. (I think lincoln mentioned that it works well in the latest version of vmware player, which likely has the same brains as WS 8.) Note: I recommend fullscreening it, because otherwise the hotcorners are a HUGE pain to deal with. The performance seems pretty good, though I still hate that metro UI (which will likely make the whole thing fail).

This post has been edited by LiveBrianD: 19 April 2012 - 05:37 PM

[waldojim]

LiveBrianD, on 19 April 2012 - 05:37 PM, said:

It seems to run well under VMware workstation 8 though. (I think lincoln mentioned that it works well in the latest version of vmware player, which likely has the same brains as WS 8.) Note: I recommend fullscreening it, because otherwise the hotcorners are a HUGE pain to deal with. The performance seems pretty good, though I still hate that metro UI (which will likely make the whole thing fail).

Yes, we know you hate Metro.

Though I don't think for a second you went into this with an open mind.

[LiveBrianD]

waldojim, on 19 April 2012 - 05:40 PM, said:

Yes, we know you hate Metro.

Though I don't think for a second you went into this with an open mind.

I'm not saying the metro interface is entirely bad. For instance, I found it works well... on a phone (wp7 - I still prefer android's UI a little more, though I'll admit that wp7 is pretty good, but they don't have many verizon devices anyway). It's optimized towards touchscreens, not the mice and keyboards the majority of their userbase has, and feels a bit awkward there, plus it's confusing at times. What could possible go wrong?

This post has been edited by LiveBrianD: 19 April 2012 - 05:48 PM

[LincolnSpector]

waldojim, on 19 April 2012 - 05:31 PM, said:

Windows 8 runs like crap in a virtual box - runs great as a stand alone OS though.

I found it to run fine in a virtual box. It would probably run better outside of one, but that's true with anything.

Lincoln

[waldojim]

LincolnSpector, on 20 April 2012 - 07:52 AM, said:

waldojim, on 19 April 2012 - 05:31 PM, said:

Windows 8 runs like crap in a virtual box - runs great as a stand alone OS though.

I found it to run fine in a virtual box. It would probably run better outside of one, but that's true with anything.

Lincoln

I found that most of the gestures were broken, as a touchpad isn't emulated worth anything, as such, all the features that make 8 usable on my laptop were all disabled/broken...

[LiveBrianD]

I found that I couldn't get the video driver to work for win8 in virtualbox - it was effectively stuck with the standard VGA driver (however, you still get aero that way, oddly enough). Admittedly, I did this on a desktop, and thus didn't have any gestures to emulate.

[waldojim]

LiveBrianD, on 20 April 2012 - 02:29 PM, said:

I found that I couldn't get the video driver to work for win8 in virtualbox - it was effectively stuck with the standard VGA driver (however, you still get aero that way, oddly enough). Admittedly, I did this on a desktop, and thus didn't have any gestures to emulate.

This is because it won't auto-disable at the moment. Same problem with my AMD Ahtlon-XP, except that with AERO and no video driver, the machine was worse than unusable.