Hello,
So I installed Windows 8 Pro 32-Bit as a virtual machine on VMware Workstation 9, so I can try the new OS before deciding if I want to upgrade my Windows 7 laptop to it. I played around with it for several days, until one day (well actually, it was just today) the OS failed to start up. It said it is diagnosing the OS and then a blue screen popped up (I'm not sure if this is considered a BTOD or whatever), titled "Automatic Repair" telling me that "Windows couldn't load correctly" and advising me to use the Windows Restore function to fix the problem. After pressing the "Restore" button I see the boot screen (blue Windows logo on black background), after dozens of minutes, a blue screen returns and it says that "Automatic Repair couldn't repair your PC" and offers me to instead try some "Advanced options".
ANYWAY, I'm not asking for advice on how to fix the problem, since I can easily just reinstall Win8 on VM without losing anything important really. What I am wondering is - was this problem that I had most likely caused by some kind of virtual machine error (maybe I didn't shut the virtual machine properly one time), or was it caused because Windows 8 really is a bad OS?
So I installed Windows 8 Pro 32-Bit as a virtual machine on VMware Workstation 9, so I can try the new OS before deciding if I want to upgrade my Windows 7 laptop to it. I played around with it for several days, until one day (well actually, it was just today) the OS failed to start up. It said it is diagnosing the OS and then a blue screen popped up (I'm not sure if this is considered a BTOD or whatever), titled "Automatic Repair" telling me that "Windows couldn't load correctly" and advising me to use the Windows Restore function to fix the problem. After pressing the "Restore" button I see the boot screen (blue Windows logo on black background), after dozens of minutes, a blue screen returns and it says that "Automatic Repair couldn't repair your PC" and offers me to instead try some "Advanced options".
ANYWAY, I'm not asking for advice on how to fix the problem, since I can easily just reinstall Win8 on VM without losing anything important really. What I am wondering is - was this problem that I had most likely caused by some kind of virtual machine error (maybe I didn't shut the virtual machine properly one time), or was it caused because Windows 8 really is a bad OS?
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