Windows-8 on Separate Drive

[Toppack]

I was thinking about how to put W-8 on a removable (external USB) hard-drive,

and found this interesting article about doing that:

(I did Not think about putting W-8 on a DVD and changing BIOS to boot from DVD)

That way it will be completely Isolated from W-7,

and I think this will be better than setting up a Virtual-Machine method.

 

http://www.pcworld.com/article/240119/how_to_download_and_install_windows_8_on_a_new_partition.html

 

Virtual-Machine method using VirtualBox:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/240117/how_to_download_and_install_windows_8_into_a_virtual_machine.html

[Mr Bean]

hi there

 

yes I just installed it on a spare drive , pulling out all others and no modem on

do i like it well think so ??

 

very fast and so far stable. test it on the net after I, install my protections ..

see how we go.

Mr Bean

[Toppack]

Have you tried running any Graphics software on W-8 yet?

I was wondering if programs like Photoshop or Photofiltre have any problems with W-8?

If those have compatibility problems I may wait about installing W-8,

until that gets fixed?

[Mr Bean]

programs like Photoshop

never use them nor interested to but I say thy should??

 

only thing I am finding is the older type programs some just will not run

 

but one thing this is a developer version not even a Beta as such,if you do Not Or any one reading This, understand MS protocols then better left alone ,This is not for the New user

nor a fully blow OS that would be re least to a normal user

its experimental only.

Mr Bean

[Toppack]

Yes, the only reason I wanted to Test W-8 was it's supposedly great new Graphics capability.

And I've read that graphics programs are not even running properly with it.

 

I purchased an external-drive box to put W-8 on,

but now that I find out about it's extreme limitations, :-(

I'll probably Wait for the Full version. :roll:

 

Oh well, I Now have a good External-drive to use on another computer. :lol: