Installing Windows 8 .iso from DVD
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Has anyone tried it? Unfortunately I can't boot from USB (my motherboard is old and the BIOS doesn't provide this option), so I'm thinking about burning a DVD with that .iso file.
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Has anyone tried it? Unfortunately I can't boot from USB (my motherboard is old and the BIOS doesn't provide this option), so I'm thinking about burning a DVD with that .iso file.
There's no free lunch. Let's wait for the dinner. Take a look at Scattered Polaroids here in The Code Project.
Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira wrote:
I can't boot from USB (my motherboard is old and the BIOS doesn't provide this option),
Seems like cutting a DVD is your only option.
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Has anyone tried it? Unfortunately I can't boot from USB (my motherboard is old and the BIOS doesn't provide this option), so I'm thinking about burning a DVD with that .iso file.
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You can still use a bootable USB flash drive (though you still need to burn a CD). Step 1. Download and Install the Windows 7 USB download tool. CNET download page Step 2. Use the Windows 7 USB download tool with your Win 8 iso to make your flash drive bootable. Step 3. Download the Plop Boot manager. http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html Step 4. Burn plpbt.iso to a CD Step 5. Insert bootable flash drive and Plop CD Step 6. Use Plop bootloader to boot your USB drive. Step 7. Install Win 8. Step 8. Enjoy Windows 8 developer preview. I have done this, and it does work. (The Windows 7 USB download tool does not work correctly if you are trying to burn the x64 iso to your drive while using a x32 OS) (There are other ways to make the drive bootable, but they require at least the temporary use of a x64 machine)
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Has anyone tried it? Unfortunately I can't boot from USB (my motherboard is old and the BIOS doesn't provide this option), so I'm thinking about burning a DVD with that .iso file.
There's no free lunch. Let's wait for the dinner. Take a look at Scattered Polaroids here in The Code Project.
Hi! Do you really want to install Win8 Preview on a real machine? Using a virtual machine for this will give you a lot less headache. Yesterday I installed the preview with (a not up to date version of) VirtualBox and it worked (after switching from an emulated SATA disk to IDE). Most virtualization solutions let you mount an iso image as DVD, so no need to actually burn a DVD. The big advantage: You host system is untouched and you can delete the VM once you're done.
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Has anyone tried it? Unfortunately I can't boot from USB (my motherboard is old and the BIOS doesn't provide this option), so I'm thinking about burning a DVD with that .iso file.
There's no free lunch. Let's wait for the dinner. Take a look at Scattered Polaroids here in The Code Project.
I successfully installed Win8 DP on VMWare Workstation 8.0. Just select Windows 7 as target OS, and disable floppy disk. Games will not run good on VM.
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Has anyone tried it? Unfortunately I can't boot from USB (my motherboard is old and the BIOS doesn't provide this option), so I'm thinking about burning a DVD with that .iso file.
There's no free lunch. Let's wait for the dinner. Take a look at Scattered Polaroids here in The Code Project.
You don't need USB at all. This[^] method shows how to do it using Power Shell. I tried it out on a spare machine last week and it works a treat.
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Has anyone tried it? Unfortunately I can't boot from USB (my motherboard is old and the BIOS doesn't provide this option), so I'm thinking about burning a DVD with that .iso file.
There's no free lunch. Let's wait for the dinner. Take a look at Scattered Polaroids here in The Code Project.
My old spare notebook has no option to boot from USB, as yours, so I installed from DVD last Friday night. No problems at all, though the performance on that gray-haired old thing is really bad (probably 1GB of Ram is not optimal for Win8).
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Has anyone tried it? Unfortunately I can't boot from USB (my motherboard is old and the BIOS doesn't provide this option), so I'm thinking about burning a DVD with that .iso file.
There's no free lunch. Let's wait for the dinner. Take a look at Scattered Polaroids here in The Code Project.
I got the full-monty (4.8 gig) Win 8 ISO running as a VHD using VirtualBox, following the instructions here:[^] ... a link which I think was provided by another CP member (but I can't locate their post, sorry). Took me two attempts to get it right. Note that the screen shots in the article linked to above were not entirely consistent with the current release of VirtualBox: 4.1.2 I'm using a 6420 duo-core, with 4 gigs of ram, with 1 gig of ram allocated to Win 8 under VirtualBox: when I initially set Win 8 to use 2 gigs under VirtualBox, VirtualBox warned me I was, possibly, allocating too much memory. Win 8 is very slow on this machine, and Visual Studio Express 11 is dog-slow, as in unusable: but this is, after all, pre-beta. best, Bill
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Has anyone tried it? Unfortunately I can't boot from USB (my motherboard is old and the BIOS doesn't provide this option), so I'm thinking about burning a DVD with that .iso file.
There's no free lunch. Let's wait for the dinner. Take a look at Scattered Polaroids here in The Code Project.
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Has anyone tried it? Unfortunately I can't boot from USB (my motherboard is old and the BIOS doesn't provide this option), so I'm thinking about burning a DVD with that .iso file.
There's no free lunch. Let's wait for the dinner. Take a look at Scattered Polaroids here in The Code Project.
If you have Windows Server 2008 on your LAN, you could install Windows Deployment Services and put WIMs from ISO image on the server, then you'll be able to install Windows 8 from your network.
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Has anyone tried it? Unfortunately I can't boot from USB (my motherboard is old and the BIOS doesn't provide this option), so I'm thinking about burning a DVD with that .iso file.
There's no free lunch. Let's wait for the dinner. Take a look at Scattered Polaroids here in The Code Project.
To directly answer your question. Yes I have burned a DVD with the ISO. No problems. Why would there be? Bear in mind that the ISO is 4.8GB, i.e. too large to fit a standard DVD. You will need a dual layer burner. Like Bill, I installed to a VHD. In case you want to try this as well, here are a couple of links that I read before trying it. Guide to Installing and Booting Windows 8 Developer Preview off a VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) [^] Dual Boot Windows 8 from VHD using Windows Setup[^]. There is also a section on TechNet Virtual Hard Disks on Windows 7[^] with useful information. If you do try this bear in mind that when using the DiskPart command line, in the installer, the drive letters for your volumes can be different from the ones as seen by windows (if you have changed them in windows, use the diskpart command that lists the volumes to make sure that you are trying to mount the VHD from the correct place).
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Has anyone tried it? Unfortunately I can't boot from USB (my motherboard is old and the BIOS doesn't provide this option), so I'm thinking about burning a DVD with that .iso file.
There's no free lunch. Let's wait for the dinner. Take a look at Scattered Polaroids here in The Code Project.
Worked just fine for me.
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Has anyone tried it? Unfortunately I can't boot from USB (my motherboard is old and the BIOS doesn't provide this option), so I'm thinking about burning a DVD with that .iso file.
There's no free lunch. Let's wait for the dinner. Take a look at Scattered Polaroids here in The Code Project.
Thanks very much everybody! I'm gonna try it tonight.
There's no free lunch. Let's wait for the dinner. Take a look at Scattered Polaroids here in The Code Project.