Recent content by karlsnooks

From some other posts on this program, I've a strong suspicion that there exists or has existed two similar programs with the same name.

This is John Savill's procedure for a dual-boot installation. Q: How can I deploy Windows 8 to a virtual hard disk on my machine for easy dual-boot?

1366 x 768 required for snap feature. Just ran across this tidbit. Min resolution for apps is still 1024 x 768. Q: What resolution do the Windows 8 Metro UI and Snap feature require?

Now I hadn't heard of that term before which I find amusing. Nor did I know that you could locate the "charms" on the right side. http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2581-charms-bar-open-windows-8-a.html

Shawn, Ah ha, that answers a couple of questions for me. I didn't even noticed that Theog had written the tutorial. Thanks and sorry for the confusion on my part. karl

Shawn, I wish I knew why my uninstall did not work as advertised as I followed your tutorial to the letter. At the present, I don't have the time to sacrifice to make another run at it. When I get the time, then I'll make a sys img backup, install, and try to uninstall again immediately...

Sure hope you made a system image backup of your Win 7 before installing Win 8. I was lucky and had made one so I didn't lose much when the uninstall of Win 8 did not work "as advertised". You will notice that Shawn's snapshots always show a 100 mb reserved partition.

You probably had the 100 mb reserved partition. I did not and still don't.

Shawn, Had Win 7 Ultimate x64 with SP1 installed and fully uptodate. Installed Win 8 per your tutorial. Win 7 in a 50 GB partition Win 8 in a 50 GB partition with a VHD of 40 GB for the Win 8.

Zero changes to bootloader. Thanks for your interest.

How many times have your installed and then uninstalled Win 8. Perhaps Shawn would be interesting in hearing your approach.

theog, I was following Brink's procedure. When the procedure failed, then I tried doing a system repair using a Win 7 System Repair Disc.

Tried. Several times. No success.

Shawn, Don't recall the details, but when rebooted I got a msg indicating that boot mgr or boot loader missing and upon boot the dual-icon screen showed up where one would chose Win 7 or Win 8. Of course, choosing Win 7 resulted in the error msg. fortunately, I had a system image backup and a...

Shawn, Try it without the 100 mb partition. karl