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Installed it the other day no problems. Installed CPU-Z and when it launched it crashed the OS...in no mood to mess with this any further lol. 
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i have downloaded it .. but i am unable to install it .. also created its boot able usb .. but when i start its setup it doesn't show any hdd or partition where do i install it
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I've heard someone had this problem too. They booted with live cd (windows pe), initialized and formatted drives (as nfs indeed). After that windows 8 boot dvd/usb was able to recognize them.
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Use ctrl+f10 or shift+f10 or something during setup, then start diskpart and use clean on the disk. No other live disk required.
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Unlikely, as boot.ini isn't used from Vista and up
Yep your right Dan!!! At the time of writing that I guess I was brain dead
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Today I disabled Windows 8 Defender and tried to install some free antivirus software: (as admin with 7 compatibility of course).
I tried to install AVG. It failed with severe error on the last stage of installation.
Then I tried to install Avast. From the first attempt it didn't even run, from the second attempt it bsod'ed with kernel error. Wonderful.
And finally I tried to install Avira. In the beginning it said I need to uninstall Windows Defender (pffft as if it was possible, it was off anyway). However it installed just fine and even did a quick scan. But after scan was complete avscan.exe gave "the instruction referred memory at blah and memory can't be read". As if I could do anything about the memory. Oh joy.
Ok so getting back to Windows Defender then, LOL happy day.
p.s. safely removing USB drives sometimes ain't as easy under W8 as I'd desire.
Just found a thread on MSDN so yeah AVG ain't gonna work (error I got was absolutely the same as theirs)
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Fo...l/thread/d85883bb-6d62-4efe-a600-cf250d739ee4
I tried to install AVG. It failed with severe error on the last stage of installation.
Then I tried to install Avast. From the first attempt it didn't even run, from the second attempt it bsod'ed with kernel error. Wonderful.
And finally I tried to install Avira. In the beginning it said I need to uninstall Windows Defender (pffft as if it was possible, it was off anyway). However it installed just fine and even did a quick scan. But after scan was complete avscan.exe gave "the instruction referred memory at blah and memory can't be read". As if I could do anything about the memory. Oh joy.
Ok so getting back to Windows Defender then, LOL happy day.
p.s. safely removing USB drives sometimes ain't as easy under W8 as I'd desire.
Just found a thread on MSDN so yeah AVG ain't gonna work (error I got was absolutely the same as theirs)
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Fo...l/thread/d85883bb-6d62-4efe-a600-cf250d739ee4
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Also, added the NEW 8012 build to the OP.
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Added to the OP, not sure why I didn't do this when I made the post
Maybe you were to excited
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Downloading right now. I will install it in a VM and if it performs well then I will install it in a partition like the previous build.
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using MSCONFIG you should be able to turn off that selection or the option to boot the os load screen at all, plus more besides and make that new type of boot permanent after testing it of course ive rid my pc of old os's boots this way many times
i didnt like win8 at all and metro is not for me
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Maybe you were to excited
I suggest digging out a spare hdd and use that instead of VM.
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WTF It says I don't have sufficient physical memory but I allocated 512 MB, even with 1 GB 
It even says the same in the physical machine *Goes to re download the ISO again*
It even says the same in the physical machine *Goes to re download the ISO again*
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its not system RAM it needs, its hDD space. sounds like it might want that 100MB partition for boot stuff.
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Nah finally was a corrupted ISO download, strange never happened me that
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Cool, thanks! I didn't knew that utility! effectively, the previous downloaded ISO had mismatched checksums. The new downloaded one matches fine
Now I am installing it!
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No offence but 8102 is the same as Sept 15 when it was released nothing new in it. Mine from the Sept 17 install reads 'Evaluation Copy. Build 8102_winmain_win8m3.110912-1733.92eb4451821f0730', and that was what I tried telling in the other post Windows Developer Preview is build 8102.......Just wanted the OP of the other thread to post in here.
PS
I seen in the other thread that if you ran win update in Win8 it goes to 8102,So yeah nothing new if you did that already. And mine has been reading 8102 since Sept 17 like I said it did an update .
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anyone got MSN or any other chat programs able to work? So far I can only run Steam. Games wise, Warcraft and the Curse add on manager are working just great and im noticing a little less memory usage when playing WoW and using a browser w/ 4 tabs open for FB games.
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mmm... I don't seem to be able to mount ISO images:
Was the option removed or something? Both Alcohol 52% and DaemonTools won't install properly so I'm left with no way to mount ISOs.
Was the option removed or something? Both Alcohol 52% and DaemonTools won't install properly so I'm left with no way to mount ISOs.
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I have been using the Developer Preview from the same night it went live on a MSI WIND U160DX Netbook as the default OS. It runs ok seeing that its not even a beta but a pre build. I have no problem installing Deamon tools and mounting ISO. The boot/resume time is ridiculously fast. Cant wait to try out the beta in January.
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i cant read that language, but try virtualclonedrive.
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No it wasn't. It works perfectly. When I right click on iso file it gives two options burn and mount. (in Windows 7 only burn).
Just checked: these options disappear and icon as well if you install some third party app that works with iso (7-zip, nero etc).
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