pipsqueaker117
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As stated in the title, my windows 8 setup is not working. I'm trying to dual-boot the release preview ISO with my current win 7 (64 bit), but I'm having... difficulties. The problem seems to be with the partitioning. Here's what my Disk Management looks like before partitioning.
(The loading circle is the computer shrinking the c drive)
The thing partitions fine (well, at least without showing any error messages), and I'll be left with about 130 gig of unallocated space on the hard drive, showing a black bar on top. I right click on it, select 'new simple volume', and go through the setup, giving it the letter G and the tag windows 8. It then pops up on the disk manager and in the explorer. I noticed that the layout is listed as 'simple' but the type is actually listed as "dynamic" something I think could be the heart of the problem (this is actually true of all the drives).
Another thing I noticed was that not a single one of the drives was primary, unlike many those I've seen on youtube tutorials. I also tried creating a logical drive using cmd, but nothing was created. If it helps I'm using an hp-2000 with amd processor. The laptop came with four drives already installed, one of which I deleted (the backup) to ensure that the cap on disks (sorry if this is bad terminology) caused the problem. Anyways, I boot into the installation mode, go through the installer, balh blah blah... After I select custom and attempt to sselect the G drive the things says "windows 8 cannot be installed as the selected drive contains one or more dynamic elements" (or something t that effect, I don't exactly remember). I've tried it again and again, but no dice.
Any and all help is appreciated
-Pipsqueaker117
(The loading circle is the computer shrinking the c drive)
The thing partitions fine (well, at least without showing any error messages), and I'll be left with about 130 gig of unallocated space on the hard drive, showing a black bar on top. I right click on it, select 'new simple volume', and go through the setup, giving it the letter G and the tag windows 8. It then pops up on the disk manager and in the explorer. I noticed that the layout is listed as 'simple' but the type is actually listed as "dynamic" something I think could be the heart of the problem (this is actually true of all the drives).
Another thing I noticed was that not a single one of the drives was primary, unlike many those I've seen on youtube tutorials. I also tried creating a logical drive using cmd, but nothing was created. If it helps I'm using an hp-2000 with amd processor. The laptop came with four drives already installed, one of which I deleted (the backup) to ensure that the cap on disks (sorry if this is bad terminology) caused the problem. Anyways, I boot into the installation mode, go through the installer, balh blah blah... After I select custom and attempt to sselect the G drive the things says "windows 8 cannot be installed as the selected drive contains one or more dynamic elements" (or something t that effect, I don't exactly remember). I've tried it again and again, but no dice.
Any and all help is appreciated
-Pipsqueaker117
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 7 64 bit