How did you setup your Win 8 install?

[verbal kent]

Dual booting with win7 ultimate on an acer AO722. Installing on a clean build amd desktop tonight

 

[Cookieman]

Set mine up as a dual boot using a spare hard drive.

 

[Lee]

Tell us about your Win 8 (Dev) setup

Tell us about your setup using Win 8.

You can do this using just verbiage or screen shoots. I thought this would be a good time for members to start showing how they have setup Win8. Also let us know if it is being used in a VM, main OS, or dual boot.

I'll get things started:

Dual boot with Win 7
Office 2010
Photoshop CS5
Faststone Imagine Viewer
Winamp
iTunes
MP3Tag Editor
Adobe Acrobat 9

Will post updates as apps are added.

It will be interesting to see what others are doing.
Please no comments on the UI; this is so others can see what you have and ask questions pertaining to the different installs.

Thank you for any and all comments (okay I know all you guys from Sevenforums so keep it clean).

 

[Lee]

I installed as a dual boot using 2 separate drives, first unplugging the Windows 7 SSD drive then installing Windows 8 on the other formatted spinner drive. After Windows 8 installation I reattached the Windows 7 drive.

Only drawback is I do not have a boot order menu but have to use Bios boot order menu options (F8) on my Asus mobo to boot into either Windows 7 or Windows 8.

As others have alluded to the installer will let you choose a separate partition on the same drive but not a separate drive.

Not sure why you could not install on separate drive. I have four 500 gig HDD's and it is installed on the second thus I was able to set it as a dual boot on two different drives.

 

[Konceptz804]

Have it running in virtual box on my elitebook 8440p and as the primary OS on a Dell D630.

 

[fantastic]

Dual boot with Windows 7 install first then windows 8 in custom mode

 

[Dwarf]

Clean installation Multiboot with Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows 8 7989, all 64-bit.

I recommend using the WindowsDeveloperPreview-64bit-English-Developer version (the largest of the available downloads). The applications work with this version.

The installer functions in the same way as Windows 7, so should cause no problems. I installed from a USB key, created in exactly the same way as those for Vista and Windows 7.

 

[Konceptz804]

Clean installation Multiboot with Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows 8 7989, all 64-bit.

I recommend using the WindowsDeveloperPreview-64bit-English-Developer version (the largest of the available downloads). The applications work with this version.

The installer functions in the same way as Windows 7, so should cause no problems. I installed from a USB key, created in exactly the same way as those for Vista and Windows 7.

I'm going to try that, as I've said in another post, using the regular x64bit preview the apps stopped working after about an hour or two, and the resolution is well above 1024 x 768. I'll report back if that makes any difference.

 

[sjaak327]

Dual boot with Windows 7, I simply replaced the Server 2008 R2 installation I had running on a second harddrive with Windows 8. Funny though, I get the new boot screen, and it boots into Windows 8 (I changed the delay to 5 seconds), when I choose Windows 7, it reboots (as in I see the bios screen) and then boots straight into Windows 7. Maybe it is the crappy Alienware bios messing up here, but I thought it was funny in any case, it just adds about 20 seconds additional boot time to Windows 7, just as if they want me to run Windows 8, which in this way boots up much much quicker then 7

 

[xxxdannyxxx]

Dual boot with Windows 7, I simply replaced the Server 2008 R2 installation I had running on a second harddrive with Windows 8. Funny though, I get the new boot screen, and it boots into Windows 8 (I changed the delay to 5 seconds), when I choose Windows 7, it reboots (as in I see the bios screen) and then boots straight into Windows 7. Maybe it is the crappy Alienware bios messing up here, but I thought it was funny in any case, it just adds about 20 seconds additional boot time to Windows 7, just as if they want me to run Windows 8, which in this way boots up much much quicker then 7

Mine does the same, select seven and back to the bios to load. I don't know if It would make any difference setting seven as the default OS in msconfig/boot or whether that would mess the multiboot selection screen up?

Danny

 

[Butteredpopcorn]

I set up mine on a Asus 1005hab with a clean install. It had Linux before. It took about 10 minutes from the time I pressed install to where it asked me my settings.

 

[ZenixNet]

Vitural Box and Dual Boot (40 GB partition)

 

[FSeal]

Set mine up on my secondary "guest" machine using dual boot with an old HD put in as disk 0, with original W7 root drive moved to drive 1.

Nicely installed a dual boot menu to switch between the two.

P.S. FIRST POST! Freaky having to start all over as an Ubernoob

 

[russjr08]

Dual Boot for me

 

[Max Peck]

Virtual Box on my i7 machine but I'm about to try a dual-boot set up on an older HP laptop I have. I also have a tablet PC but it's one of those chinese-made ones. I need to figure out if it will let me set up a dual boot on it. No CD-ROM drive on it ... wonder if it would boot to a USB stick?

-Max

 

[Billman87]

I went for broke, Raided 2 Agility 3 60GB's on Sata 6Gbit and 2 on the 3Gbit ports for swapfile. Primary OS no dual booting.
100 percent driver support few minor bugs encountered. boot time under 30 seconds power off in less than 10.
Installed from USB DVD drive as my internal drive failed to read the disc.

 

[Un1x3384]

I installed on my custom built tablet, made from a MSI Wind U100 netbook. 1.6GHz single core, 1.5GB RAM, resistive touch. Had Windows 7 installed on it before, so this is a great upgrade!

 

[synaptix]

I went all in.

Straight Windows 8 DP x64 B#8102, no dual booting. This may change in the future if I ever see fit.

 

[Un1x3384]

Anyone know if the Samsung Galaxy Tab (7" size) with Android 2.2 will run Win 8? If so how do you install it since there is no dvd player or usb connection?

Windows 8 will not run on ARM tablets yet because the Win8 developer preview only supports x86.

 

[mikedl]

I created a partion on my C drive (running Win 7) with Partition Manager boot disk and then installed Win 8 to the new partition.

No issues. Dual boot is working fine. I like the new OS choice screen.