Windows 8 to go - on a USB stick

[Kodi]

Anybody got round the "Office Activation" problem when using Wintogo on a computer with different hardware.
Cheers
jimbo

I know this is not the answer you are looking for but if you only use office occasionally why not use "open Office" I believe it now reads word and excel files.

 

[Kodi]

If you want to know more about all that, read my little tut here:

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/5349-windows-8-go-setup-usb-flash-drive-usb-disk.html

Nice Tutorial Wolfgang!!!

Can't give the rep it deserves, have to spread it around first.

 

[whs]

If you want to know more about all that, read my little tut here:

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/5349-windows-8-go-setup-usb-flash-drive-usb-disk.html

Nice Tutorial Wolfgang!!!

Can't give the rep it deserves, have to spread it around first.

That is perfectly alright Keith. Shawn has asked me to also put it into the tutorial section, so I did. I like the PDF version better - fancier Word setup that you cannot do in the tutorial section.

 

[jimbo45]

Hi there

Not trying to be "The 5th player in a String Quartet" but perhaps you should mention in your EXCELLENT tutorial that if you are actually USING a W8 system to create the Windows to Go there is a BUILT IN ISO mounter
just right click in explorer and choose MOUNT.

If for some reason you don't see the Mount option you can still in explorer just double click the icon and chose open with Explorer.

Save the need for thrid party virtual CD / DVD type tools.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[GMan]

Just wanted to say excellent tutorial, whs!

 

[whs]

Thanks Jimbo for the suggestion. I did not even know that. Will investigate. I did not bother to search any further because the Virtual Clone Drive program was so dead simple. But a native facility is, of course, preferable.

 

[Hopachi]

Great work Wolfgang!

Thanks for sharing the pdf with us.

I didn't used any drive mounter just extracted install.wim from the iso with 7-Zip.

Thanks
Hopachi

 

[whs]

Great work Wolfgang!

Thanks for sharing the pdf with us.

I didn't used any drive mounter just extracted install.wim from the iso with 7-Zip.

Thanks
Hopachi

Yes, there are many different ways of doing it. I chose this one because I thought it would be easy even for people who are usually not playing around with the system files.

Btw: I have now posted the tut in the Windows 8 forum tutorial section.

 

[SIW2]

Good one again whs.

 

[whs]

Good one again whs.

Thanks. I am really having fun with my stick. Amazing how fast that thing is.

 

[SIW2]

You're gonna have to get the Enterprise Edition when 8 comes out.

I think that is the only one that allows it.

 

[whs]

You're gonna have to get the Enterprise Edition when 8 comes out.

I think that is the only one that allows it.

Are you sure. The CP is an Ultimate version - I think. I wonder though how that will work with the product key if you run it on different system. Will have to ask an EULA specialist on the Microsoft Forum.

 

[jimbo45]

Hi there
I hope it is the Ultimate version also that allows Win to go -- this sort of stuff can be incredibly useful to Independent travelling consultants who aren't licensed for an "Enterprise" thingy. In any case a lot of businesses might baulk at licensing indpendent external staff for the Enterprise stuff -- and this still would be a pain if you work at more than one site.

In fact I see this product being of FAR more use to FREE LANCERS AND INDEPENDANTS rather than to actual "Permie" corporate workers.

I include in the "Permie" foray those who also travel to different sites but are employed by a specific consultancy --these guys could get their stuff from their employer. I'm specifically referring to INDEPENDANT or FREE LANCE consultants who probably would be by far the biggest business users of this type of product.

I like the idea that irrespective of the OS you have at the client's site you've always got a static regular os with some applications that you can use wherever you go such as Office 2010 without having to spend loads of time learning outdated stuff you'll probably only use for a short time during that particular contract.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[jeff777]

Hi Wolfgang,

This is in reference to your issues trying to get windows 8 on usb drive. Let me ask you have you had any experience yet with windows 8 to go? I seem to be having an issue when booting off of the usb drive as the boot device I see the windows 8 splash screen come up and the little dots appearing, however it is just a continuous loop. Have you had any trouble with that?

 

[whs]

Jeff, I did that a while ago with the Windows 8 Beta and all I remember is that it worked. I have no idea why your's would not work. Must be a little glitch with the bootmgr.