Today I installed a new hard drive on my laptop. The drive was unformated, thought Win8 would walk me through formatting. Instead it formatted the hard drive automatically, pleasant surprise.
I guess Microsoft didn't want to waste anyone time no more in stopping and asking you to format the drive. I'm sure they saved 30 sec off the installation time
I guess Microsoft didn't want to waste anyone time no more in stopping and asking you to format the drive. I'm sure they saved 30 sec off the installation time
2 x Corsair Dominator 2GB DDR3 @1866 (Old DDR3 1600 Sticks, plan to upgrade)
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ATI 4850 (I know it's old, plan to upgrade, taking donations)
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Realtek ALC889
Monitor(s) Displays
Sony Bravia KDL-32EX500
Screen Resolution
1980x1080P
Hard Drives
1 x Corsair Force Series GT CSSD-F60GBGT-BK Windows
2 x Western Digital Caviar Black Sata III 750GB (Raid 0)Programs
1 x Western Digital Caviar Black Sata III 1TB - Media
2 x Western Digital Caviar Black Sata II 640GB (Raid 0) Mac OS X
4 x GELID Solutions FN-TX12-15 120mm Case Fan with Superior Temperature Control
1 x Corsair 140mm Case Fan
1 x SilverStone FP55B Aluminum front panel 5.25" to a 3.5" bay converter
1 x Ultra Card Reader
1 x Sony Blu-ray Burner BD-5300S-0B
1 x 2GB Internaly Installed Flash Drive For Mac OS X Boot
1 x Internal USB 3.0 Header to 2 USB 3.0 Female Adaptor
1 x ATI TV Wonder™ Digital Cable Tuner
2 x Corsair Dominator 2GB DDR3 @1866 (Old DDR3 1600 Sticks, plan to upgrade)
Graphics Card(s)
ATI 4850 (I know it's old, plan to upgrade, taking donations)
Sound Card
Realtek ALC889
Monitor(s) Displays
Sony Bravia KDL-32EX500
Screen Resolution
1980x1080P
Hard Drives
1 x Corsair Force Series GT CSSD-F60GBGT-BK Windows
2 x Western Digital Caviar Black Sata III 750GB (Raid 0)Programs
1 x Western Digital Caviar Black Sata III 1TB - Media
2 x Western Digital Caviar Black Sata II 640GB (Raid 0) Mac OS X
4 x GELID Solutions FN-TX12-15 120mm Case Fan with Superior Temperature Control
1 x Corsair 140mm Case Fan
1 x SilverStone FP55B Aluminum front panel 5.25" to a 3.5" bay converter
1 x Ultra Card Reader
1 x Sony Blu-ray Burner BD-5300S-0B
1 x 2GB Internaly Installed Flash Drive For Mac OS X Boot
1 x Internal USB 3.0 Header to 2 USB 3.0 Female Adaptor
1 x ATI TV Wonder™ Digital Cable Tuner
I think its a matter of assumptions. MS made the right assumption that somebody who was trying to install WDP on an unformatted hard disk would probably prefer everything done for them. One is free to partition per choice, then install. Different strokes for different folks.
2 x Corsair Dominator 2GB DDR3 @1866 (Old DDR3 1600 Sticks, plan to upgrade)
Graphics Card(s)
ATI 4850 (I know it's old, plan to upgrade, taking donations)
Sound Card
Realtek ALC889
Monitor(s) Displays
Sony Bravia KDL-32EX500
Screen Resolution
1980x1080P
Hard Drives
1 x Corsair Force Series GT CSSD-F60GBGT-BK Windows
2 x Western Digital Caviar Black Sata III 750GB (Raid 0)Programs
1 x Western Digital Caviar Black Sata III 1TB - Media
2 x Western Digital Caviar Black Sata II 640GB (Raid 0) Mac OS X
4 x GELID Solutions FN-TX12-15 120mm Case Fan with Superior Temperature Control
1 x Corsair 140mm Case Fan
1 x SilverStone FP55B Aluminum front panel 5.25" to a 3.5" bay converter
1 x Ultra Card Reader
1 x Sony Blu-ray Burner BD-5300S-0B
1 x 2GB Internaly Installed Flash Drive For Mac OS X Boot
1 x Internal USB 3.0 Header to 2 USB 3.0 Female Adaptor
1 x ATI TV Wonder™ Digital Cable Tuner
When did I say that? But remember in SF we do advise people to keep other hard drives disconnected during install because of windows proclivity to place boot files on other disks. And again this is WDP, not RTM.
I just hate when Microsoft thinks they know best. Thats all I am trying to say. I am just trying to understand there thinking about this. Sometimes when they do things I just go
2 x Corsair Dominator 2GB DDR3 @1866 (Old DDR3 1600 Sticks, plan to upgrade)
Graphics Card(s)
ATI 4850 (I know it's old, plan to upgrade, taking donations)
Sound Card
Realtek ALC889
Monitor(s) Displays
Sony Bravia KDL-32EX500
Screen Resolution
1980x1080P
Hard Drives
1 x Corsair Force Series GT CSSD-F60GBGT-BK Windows
2 x Western Digital Caviar Black Sata III 750GB (Raid 0)Programs
1 x Western Digital Caviar Black Sata III 1TB - Media
2 x Western Digital Caviar Black Sata II 640GB (Raid 0) Mac OS X
4 x GELID Solutions FN-TX12-15 120mm Case Fan with Superior Temperature Control
1 x Corsair 140mm Case Fan
1 x SilverStone FP55B Aluminum front panel 5.25" to a 3.5" bay converter
1 x Ultra Card Reader
1 x Sony Blu-ray Burner BD-5300S-0B
1 x 2GB Internaly Installed Flash Drive For Mac OS X Boot
1 x Internal USB 3.0 Header to 2 USB 3.0 Female Adaptor
1 x ATI TV Wonder™ Digital Cable Tuner
The one thing that I wish they would do is a unified installation of Windows. So that if you install a retail version of Windows you can just remove the hard drive and put it in your new computer. Thats what Apple does and I realy like that.
Side note: Do you watch F1? Q3 is on right now. Or are you a V8 Supercar fan. Bathurst 1000 is tomarrow.
2 x Corsair Dominator 2GB DDR3 @1866 (Old DDR3 1600 Sticks, plan to upgrade)
Graphics Card(s)
ATI 4850 (I know it's old, plan to upgrade, taking donations)
Sound Card
Realtek ALC889
Monitor(s) Displays
Sony Bravia KDL-32EX500
Screen Resolution
1980x1080P
Hard Drives
1 x Corsair Force Series GT CSSD-F60GBGT-BK Windows
2 x Western Digital Caviar Black Sata III 750GB (Raid 0)Programs
1 x Western Digital Caviar Black Sata III 1TB - Media
2 x Western Digital Caviar Black Sata II 640GB (Raid 0) Mac OS X
4 x GELID Solutions FN-TX12-15 120mm Case Fan with Superior Temperature Control
1 x Corsair 140mm Case Fan
1 x SilverStone FP55B Aluminum front panel 5.25" to a 3.5" bay converter
1 x Ultra Card Reader
1 x Sony Blu-ray Burner BD-5300S-0B
1 x 2GB Internaly Installed Flash Drive For Mac OS X Boot
1 x Internal USB 3.0 Header to 2 USB 3.0 Female Adaptor
1 x ATI TV Wonder™ Digital Cable Tuner
All Nicrosoft have to do is install of the drivers when the OS is installed. They tested this years ago with a early non-released version of Vista. They choose not to press forward with it and have not, as far as I am aware, of doing it again.
With the Mac, it crashes twice then it works in most cases. Sometimes it takes more restarts untill all of the drivers needed for boot are loaded.
2 x Corsair Dominator 2GB DDR3 @1866 (Old DDR3 1600 Sticks, plan to upgrade)
Graphics Card(s)
ATI 4850 (I know it's old, plan to upgrade, taking donations)
Sound Card
Realtek ALC889
Monitor(s) Displays
Sony Bravia KDL-32EX500
Screen Resolution
1980x1080P
Hard Drives
1 x Corsair Force Series GT CSSD-F60GBGT-BK Windows
2 x Western Digital Caviar Black Sata III 750GB (Raid 0)Programs
1 x Western Digital Caviar Black Sata III 1TB - Media
2 x Western Digital Caviar Black Sata II 640GB (Raid 0) Mac OS X
4 x GELID Solutions FN-TX12-15 120mm Case Fan with Superior Temperature Control
1 x Corsair 140mm Case Fan
1 x SilverStone FP55B Aluminum front panel 5.25" to a 3.5" bay converter
1 x Ultra Card Reader
1 x Sony Blu-ray Burner BD-5300S-0B
1 x 2GB Internaly Installed Flash Drive For Mac OS X Boot
1 x Internal USB 3.0 Header to 2 USB 3.0 Female Adaptor
1 x ATI TV Wonder™ Digital Cable Tuner
MS actually spent a fortune including drivers in win7, you would have noticed win7 installs a lot of drivers out of the box. But theres simply too much diverse hardware out there to include everything.
That's why I think they are trying to push for UEFI and specific hardware manufacturers, to reduce the development cost overhead for adapting to lots and lots of different hardware.
That's why I think they are trying to push for UEFI and specific hardware manufacturers, to reduce the development cost overhead for adapting to lots and lots of different hardware.
UEFI is one part of it. However they only need to include the drivers and nothing else. It would only take 1/2 to 1 GB. Well its late and F1 Qulifing is over so night.
2 x Corsair Dominator 2GB DDR3 @1866 (Old DDR3 1600 Sticks, plan to upgrade)
Graphics Card(s)
ATI 4850 (I know it's old, plan to upgrade, taking donations)
Sound Card
Realtek ALC889
Monitor(s) Displays
Sony Bravia KDL-32EX500
Screen Resolution
1980x1080P
Hard Drives
1 x Corsair Force Series GT CSSD-F60GBGT-BK Windows
2 x Western Digital Caviar Black Sata III 750GB (Raid 0)Programs
1 x Western Digital Caviar Black Sata III 1TB - Media
2 x Western Digital Caviar Black Sata II 640GB (Raid 0) Mac OS X
4 x GELID Solutions FN-TX12-15 120mm Case Fan with Superior Temperature Control
1 x Corsair 140mm Case Fan
1 x SilverStone FP55B Aluminum front panel 5.25" to a 3.5" bay converter
1 x Ultra Card Reader
1 x Sony Blu-ray Burner BD-5300S-0B
1 x 2GB Internaly Installed Flash Drive For Mac OS X Boot
1 x Internal USB 3.0 Header to 2 USB 3.0 Female Adaptor
1 x ATI TV Wonder™ Digital Cable Tuner
It would not be prudent for those who risk corrupting HDDs (no matter how small the risk) unnecessary, by not doing so. That said i don't know why people want to install an OS on a secondary HDD. What's wrong with the primary one?