calguyhunk Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 ...a very generous and a good friend has gifted me a retail key. :) For Win 7 or Win 8? :P I'm stuck on Windows 8 cause I can't boot into Windows 7 after I changed my motherboard If you're using the same storage drive, download Easy BCD and get back the "Boot into Win 7" option. You'll have to use Daz's loader to re-activate your Win7. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted October 27, 2012 Administrator Share Posted October 27, 2012 ...a very generous and a good friend has gifted me a retail key. :) For Win 7 or Win 8? :P 8 of course. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ck_kent Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 Nope! Too lazy to read all the "solutions" to make it activated. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eugene88 Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 I'm stuck on Windows 8 cause I can't boot into Windows 7 after I changed my motherboard If you're using the same storage drive, download Easy BCD and get back the "Boot into Win 7" option. You'll have to use Daz's loader to re-activate your Win7. ;) I already have the option to choose between Windows 7 and Windows 8 during startup but when i choose Windows 7, my PC will crash and restart when the starting windows logo animates for a while Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calguyhunk Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 I guess you gotta use the "Repair MBR" option or something. If I remember correctly, on MDL, Daz has a tut on how to troubleshoot similar issues on dual booting with Vista. Dunno how much of that applies to W8, but it's definitely worth giving a go, I think :think: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calguyhunk Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 OK, so I installed and activated Win8 Pro yesterday. Apart from the obvious WTF's, it's got a few quirks, that I've discovered thus far.1. It'll not recognize the hardware "Sleep", "back", "forward" keys. Actually, the sleep button, unlike XP and W7, turns the PC off, but in a funny way. As I start up again, it somehow boots back into Win8 logoff/logon screen (not the blue windowed startup screen) without going through any boot options as if it was just logged off and not powered down. Weird ;)I use a cheap Taiwanese keyboard (Genius) and I'm pretty sure checking their website for Win8 drivers will be an exercise in futility, so I haven't even bothered ;)2. Took multiple re-starts for it to recognize my gfx driver. Installed GPU, LAN and Realtek sound drivers. But the display kept looking all groggy and resolution challenged :P (1024x768 instead of the native 1360x768). Even updated my monitor drivers (LG W1953T), even though that was clearly not the problem. Suddenly as I was tearing my hair out scouring the net for solutions, explorer.exe restarted by itself and everything was hunky dory. :)3. A couple of times, booting into Win8 de-activated my Win7 (activated with Daz's Loader). Had to re-activate a couple of times. Also, Win8 has a mind of it's own when it comes to the Boot options menu. Kept using it's own bootloader instead of following my settings. Had to re-build the boot files to get my settings to work. So far so good. Hopefully, it'll stay that way ;)The whole thing feels more like a toy than a productivity tool as of now. Interesting, but too time consuming to get anything done. In any case, I hate the non-availability of Aero natively ;)For whatever it's worth, running WIn8 Pro x64 Build 6.2.9200.16384 updated today :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonar Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 late voting - switched to windows 8 already.away from metro/apps windows 8 is worth changing to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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