Actually Ray, that's exactly what I've been trying (with VirtualBox). It looks like it's starting to load and then I get a message that says that my system needs to be repaired. Go figure!!
I thought I'd try a stand alone hard drive to see if it will install on my computer at all.
Is your computer too pooped to puff? Has its git-up-n-go got up and went?
Stand-alone hard-drives aren't too expensive these days, so maybe that's the way to go....
Or get Easeus Partition Master and also EasyBCD (both freebies) and partition your present drive. If you have a lot of unused space on it, you can use Easeus to drag your present partition's right-hand end over to the left toward the used part (carefully!) until the drive is about equally divided. But don't give that new partition any name - just leave it with whatever letter it is given by Easeus. Then, when you start to install Win-8, it should look at your setup and ask you where you would like to put the Win-8. But if you've anticipated all that, and already named both of your partitions, then it will not ask and just choose the first one on the drive, and that will likely be your Win-7 one, which it will promptly overwrite with Win-8, and then you've got a problem! - Been there and done that - don't want to got back. It's a pain, wiping everything clean, and starting over to re-install Win-7 and then Win-8 to get them into the right order on the drive, because Win-7 or your oldest O/S should go at the beginning, next to the Boot Sector, so it will get recognized during booting. If a newer O/S was in that spot, it might not boot, or so the story goes.
Did I do something with the blog to get this behavior?
I just looked, and it has been turned off for verifications of comments, but it wasn't me....Maybe it was Google during their upgrades to this stuff. Now, I wish they'd fix the goddamned word-wrap so I don't have to go through the whole text line by line and get all the lines formatted to stay together or in their proper paragraphs. It's a nuisance having to go over it to eliminate gaps in the text where there shouldn't be any if it was working correctly. I don't mind playing 'Editor' but my kind of Editor is the kind that comes down from the hills after the battle is over, and shoots the wounded. I don't apply first aid usually. Haven't got the fixings.
Actually Ray, that's exactly what I've been trying (with VirtualBox). It looks like it's starting to load and then I get a message that says that my system needs to be repaired. Go figure!!
ReplyDeleteI thought I'd try a stand alone hard drive to see if it will install on my computer at all.
Hey, I just posted that without having to enter those 2 passwords. Did you do something about your blog to get this behavior?
ReplyDeleteHi, Tommy -
ReplyDeleteIs your computer too pooped to puff?
Has its git-up-n-go got up and went?
Stand-alone hard-drives aren't too expensive these days, so maybe that's the way to go....
Or get Easeus Partition Master and
also EasyBCD (both freebies) and partition your present drive. If you have a lot of unused space on it, you can use Easeus to drag your present partition's right-hand end over to the left toward the used part (carefully!) until the drive is about equally divided. But don't give that new
partition any name - just leave it with whatever letter it is given by Easeus. Then, when you start to install Win-8, it should look at your setup and ask you where you would like to put the Win-8. But if
you've anticipated all that, and already named both of your partitions, then it will not ask and just choose the first one on the drive, and that will likely be your Win-7 one, which it will promptly overwrite with Win-8, and then you've got a problem! - Been there and done that - don't want to got back. It's a pain, wiping everything clean, and starting over to re-install Win-7 and then Win-8 to get them into the right order on the drive, because Win-7
or your oldest O/S should go at the beginning, next to the Boot Sector, so it will get recognized during booting. If a newer O/S was in that spot, it might not boot, or so the story goes.
@ Tommy -
ReplyDeleteDid I do something with the blog to get this behavior?
I just looked, and it has been turned off for verifications of comments, but it wasn't me....Maybe it was Google during their upgrades to this stuff. Now, I wish they'd fix the goddamned word-wrap so I don't have to go through the whole text line by line and get all the lines formatted to stay together or in their proper paragraphs. It's a nuisance having to go over it to eliminate gaps in the text where there shouldn't be any if it was working correctly. I don't mind playing 'Editor' but my kind of Editor is the kind that comes down from the hills after the battle is over, and shoots the wounded. I don't apply first aid usually. Haven't got the fixings.