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I apologize if this sounds rude, but I'm just curious (as a computer tech): What programs are lacking in Windows 8 that you used in Vista? Nearly every program that works in Vista could work in 8, and some programs may have just changed names or been wrapped up with other programs. Also...

Do you know if you are booting via UEFI or legacy-BIOS? You can check pretty quickly by starting up "disk management" (just type that in the start screen and it'll pop up in settings as "Create and format hard disk partitions") and checking whether your hard drive is formatted as MBR or GPT...

I think maybe this post floated under your radar SIW2 so I'm just pinging you with a quote... does this forum have a private message system!?jimbo- I'm still not convinced Windows to Go or a vhd is really what I want- I can fit a boot.wim file in a few hundred megabytes on a flash drive with a...

Well, I'd never even heard of Windows to Go until you mentioned it, haha... I'm not sure. It doesn't seem like Windows to Go is designed to be a preinstall environment but rather a fully usable system (which would lack the preinstall environment features like being a ramdisk, dism, etc) that I'd...

What? If you start the installation with the USB drive, after it completes the first stage and reboots you can remove the USB drive. Once that first part is done if you boot to your hdd the installation will continue.

After your machine reboots for the first time you can remove the USB stick.

Any luck on ever putting together this preinstall environment? Also, any tips/tutorials available on how to do what you're doing? I'd like to setup a nice custom recovery pe for use on a multiboot usb... figured out the usb but the PE I'm using is still the stock and it's... well, just a command...