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windows 7 clean install from windows desktop, infinite boot loop
location: 7forums.com - date: May 4, 2013
Hi, Im getting infinite bootloops when i trying to do a clean install of windows 7 i did this with no CD just installation files from my old desktop and got no recovery disk or installation disk or what so ever if any could help me pls... thanks
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Volume Slider for Desktop Side of Windows 8
location: winsecrets.com - date: February 22, 2013
I'd love to be able to adjust or mute the volume on the desktop side of Windows 8 with just one click. I swear that I've seen little slider widgets that would allow me to do such a thing but after waaay to many hours of searching I've haven't been able to find one. Does anyone know of anything that might work for me? TIA.
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Windows 7 dual boot to Windows 8, using Win. 8 upgrade
location: winsecrets.com - date: February 21, 2013
Trying to do something, leaves me a bit undecided if it can be done. This is a new Dell Inspiron, Windows 7 with 64 bit OS. Microsoft offered that when I bought this laptop, I could buy Windows 8, for $15, which I did. Unfortunately, even with almost 19 years of computing experience, I missed the term UPGRADE, in Microsoft's offer, and got a downloaded upgrade to Windows 8, which means over writing Windows 7, which I don't want to do. Microsoft changed Windows 8 a great deal from what I've read, so my plan had been to partition my HD, which I already did, but when I got the upgrade, I found an upgraded Win. 8, MUST be installed over the existing Windows 7. No good. I want both, Win 7 to use, and Win 8 to learn on. But I thought of this meth
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Error installing dual boot windows 8 with windows 7
location: 7forums.com - date: October 13, 2012
So, yesterday i tried to install windows 8 in dual boot with my existing windows 7.. Unfortunately the installation somehow failed.. Here is the detail.. I tried to install windows 8 in my laptop, HP envy 4.. First of all, here is my disk management screenshot before i installed the windows 8.. [img]http://s10.**************/glyqd24zp/Disk_management.jpg[/img] Notice that i wanted to install it in W drive.. Fist question, can i install windows 8 in W drive? Notice that W drive is an extended partion from logical c, which my Windows 7 loacated in.. If yes, than move to the next question .. If no, how can i make my hard drive partition so it can make another primary partition? I don't want to delete recovery and HP tools partition, s
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How do I dual boot with Windows 8 Release Preview?
location: microsoft.com - date: January 31, 2012
I want to try Windows 8 Release Preview, but I don’t want to install over my current version of Windows.  How can I dual boot so I can go back and forth between the two?
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Windows 8 Release Preview doesn't boot on Pentium 4 and doesn't run Metro apps on AMD64
location: microsoft.com - date: June 8, 2012
I tried to install Windows 8 RP on an old Pentium 4 (x86 3GHz). If I run the installer from Windows 7 it says that my CPU isn't supported. So I tried booting from DVD. It shows a "Windows®" logo and then some error codes saying that my PC needs to restart and I have to hold down Power button. I also tried extracting the installed from sources\boot.wim with 7-Zip: it installs and restarts with the old CP "betta" logo, but on the second restart it shows the RP "Windows®" logo and error codes. It reverted Windows 7. I tried installing Windows 8 RP (x32) on a laptop with an old AMD64 CPU. This laptop has a broken Hard Drive, so I tried installing to an external USB one. Windows Setup says that USB isn't supported, so I used my other P
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Question- upgrading win7HP/win8 preview dual boot to win7/win8 pro
location: 8forums.com - date: October 26, 2012
I currently have Win7 & Windows 8 preview in separate partitions on the same machine. I am trying to figure out the best way to install Windows 8 pro on my system and keep my current dual boot setup with Win 7 intact and stay legal. So....I have a 3 licence family pack of windows 7 of which I have used only 1 licence. Is there some way I can use one of the remaining win7 licences to upgrade win8pro over top of the Windows 8 preview and keep my current dual boot win7/Windows 8 setup(legally) and without messing up my current Win7 installation (or Win 8 preview installation for that matter)? Is there any advantage in getting the OEM version instead?
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Weird Windows 7/Windows 8 Dual Boot problem
location: 7forums.com - date: January 16, 2013
So I have Windows 7 on an SSD that is Disk 0. I decided to make a dual boot with Windows 8 for Hyper V because I have a class where I need to setup VM's with it (but thats not the point). Anyway, I wiped my secondary hard drive (Western Digital 300gb HDD) and created a partition to load Windows 8 on. After that I installed it with no problems and was up and running in a few minutes. So I never switched back to Windows 7 in the Bios because I was busy setting up some servers on HyperV but this morning I go to switch the boot order in Bios from my HDD to the SSD with Windows 7. No errors came up, it just went straight back to Windows 8. So I restarted the computer again to check bios again, same problem. So I checked fdisk and found tha
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Window 7 Pro and Windows 8 Pro Dual Boot (No option at boot up)
location: 7forums.com - date: January 30, 2013
I am not getting the screen asking me to choose which Operating system at boot up. It gives me no options and just Boots straight to the C drive where I have Windows 7 Pro. In preparation I shrunk the Volume of the C drive and created a new partition (E) in which I made it a simple volume NTFS . I then installed Windows 8 Pro from the CD ROM and everything went fine. However when I re boot it just Boots straight into Windows 7 Pro and no mention of Windows 8. I tried to use Easy BCD 2.2 and now I have three entries (1) Windows 7 (2) Microsoft Windows 7 (3) Microsoft Windows 8 When I select Windows 8 at boot up I then get an error telling me the boot Load EXE file is corrupt I am really stumped, I have loaded windows 8 four times and s
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If I Dual boot Windows 8 with Windows 7...
location: microsoft.com - date: April 23, 2013
If I Dual boot Windows 8 with Windows 7, do I still need to download drivers for the Windows 8 part?
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