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Posted 02 April 2012 - 06:26 AM

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  Posted 02 April 2012 - 07:46 PM

tank u
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  Posted 03 April 2012 - 12:20 AM

I keep on getting to the Windows Recovery Environment! I am using Windows Vista for this one.
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  Posted 03 April 2012 - 07:38 AM

Doesn't work
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  Posted 06 April 2012 - 01:16 AM

what happens to your original OS,tried the VM and can't find my original OS.WINDOWS 8 CONTROLS SYSTEM NOW.Guess I'LL HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE RELEASE OF windows 8 AND BUY IT. TO STRAIGHTEN OUT MY SYSTEM AGAIN.
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  Posted 06 April 2012 - 04:48 AM

yes, vmware player 4.0 does play win 8 because that is how I checked out the consumer preview
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  Posted 09 April 2012 - 11:07 AM

Doesn't work!
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  Posted 14 April 2012 - 01:28 PM

I can't get it to work.
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  Posted 15 April 2012 - 07:24 PM

its asking me for a pruduct key. what should i do
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  Posted 15 April 2012 - 07:25 PM

its asking me for a product key, what should I do?
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Posted 20 April 2012 - 01:15 AM

Type in the product key.
Read the article again.
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  Posted 30 April 2012 - 08:05 PM

Doesn't work
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  Posted 17 August 2012 - 10:34 PM

I also tried to install all 3 preview versions without success. Each hung shortly after the install process began. I have a 64bit PC with Win. 7. At the time, I have VirtualBox installed and it is the 32bit version as the warning note when I downloaded VB stated the 64bit version would not run on Windows 7. I believe I was using VB 4.12 at the time, don't recall. Now I am using 4.18. I will check to see if the 64 bit version will run on Win. 7 and, if so, give it a try.
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 10:44 PM

View Postbobc4012, on 17 August 2012 - 10:34 PM, said:

I also tried to install all 3 preview versions without success. Each hung shortly after the install process began. I have a 64bit PC with Win. 7. At the time, I have VirtualBox installed and it is the 32bit version as the warning note when I downloaded VB stated the 64bit version would not run on Windows 7. I believe I was using VB 4.12 at the time, don't recall. Now I am using 4.18. I will check to see if the 64 bit version will run on Win. 7 and, if so, give it a try.


Went back to check and according to the Oracle site, VB 4.18 supports both 32 and 64 bit H/W. So I am at a loss why it hangs. I allocated 30GB for the VM and 2GB for RAM.
It requested and accepted the product key provided at the MS download sites and starts installing and then hangs - left it on one night all night and the next day it was still hung up.
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