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to give some meaning to the thread.... here is the link to download the files
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso
Sorry for some noobish questions, but how does the preview work? It's free and obviously not quite finished for release, so is there limited functionality? Does it only last for a certain amount of days? Once the actual Windows 8 is released, do you have to pay for it, or do you have the option to pay to upgrade it to the finalized version? It doesn't really go too much in depth with the FAQ...
Im doing loading now, Uggg, trying to remember how to mount it to a USB with Nero so I can in stall it off of my 6gig USB thumbdrive.
I just installed it on another partition and it wiped out my boot manager for windows 7. Anyone have any ideas on how I can get that back without having to reinstall win 7?
no need for anything fancy to install off usb...
simply plug usb into comp.
on a windows machine.... right click and format the usb drive as fat32 quick.
then open up a command prompt type the following commands pressing enter after each one obviously.
diskpart
list disk
select disk # (where # is the # of your flash drive)
select partition 1
active
then you can close the command prompt
then simply extract the entire contents of the ISO into the flash drive.... you can use 7zip or winrar to open the iso then simply copy and past the files to the flash drive.... then on your comp boot to the usb "hard drive" and walla installing from flash drive without needing any fancy programs.
got your win 7 disk? or even a windows recovery enviroment disk (all you need is a command prompt off a disk of somesort... hell you might even be able to do it within win 8.
in a cmd prompt... type bootrec /rebuildbcd