This happened when I put SSD magician on. It isn't even win 8 compatible and the bloody upgrade assistant didn't tell me. I put in on with compatibility mode as sites suggested but it just crashed it. So I can't use my SSD software... Great. Seems you can only get into safe mode from windows... Which seems pointless. Having reinstall... Again.
So it looks like SSD Magician was the problem all along. Microsoft compatibility assistance is using a list of popular software. It can't know every freaking software that exists. Beside you don't need Samsung SSD magician. A 100% useless tool beside firmware update, which by the time a new firmware will be out, this tool will be updated for Win8. This tool is clearly designed for Windows XP and Vista. windows 7 supports SSD's and Windows 8 fully supports them.
Pookey/GB, firstly sorry to hijack the thread but It saves me making a new one for nearly the same thing. I have a computer that I acquired but its running linux, if possible I don't want to shell out for windows 7 to get windows 8, according to the website the upgrade is available as long as you have the windows 8 release preview installed..this uses a generic key. Do you know if that's the case ? And can you do a fresh install with the upgrade version... The link im talking about is. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows/buy?ocid=GA8_O_WOL_DIS_ShopHP_FPP_Light Just thinking its a cheap way to get a legal OS on this machine. " To install Windows 8 Pro, your PC must be running Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 Consumer Preview, or Windows 8 Release Preview " My main thing I wanna know is with the upgrade version can you do a fresh install, I have never been a fan of "upgrading" OS's, and have always done clean installs.
I've done a fresh install from my upgrade disk it activated with no hacks needed at all, I found it worked best on a completely clean HDD
Thats that question answered..now I just need to know if it works from the Windows 8 RC. What happens when you buy it, do you get an .iso to download that you can burn and boot from ? Never bought an OS in download format :/
Back on track... need to run Samsung magician as admin, in Win7 mode. As for clean installs.. yes.. I downloaded the upgrade.. burned it to disk, and have done a clean install to disk after booting from it. Works fine.
Yes, it uses from a set of generated key. But they seams not blocked. Microsoft specifically states that you can't do an upgrade from Win8 beta to final. The same story with Win7. I know some people forced the setup to do an update with some registry hack, but they ended up with a buggy experience with Win7. A clean install is needed. As mentioned you can do that with the upgrade license of Windows 8. So it's all good. To be 100% legit (and follow Bit-tech forum rules) remember you need a previous copy of Windows that you will no longer use while you are using Windows 8. You need a version of XP, Vista or 7. So if you have an old copy of XP and Vista somewhere, you are all good and 100% legit. enjoy Here is Windows 8 license agreement if you are interested: http://tinyurl.com/aw5y9vl
Got loads of XP COAS that have been removed from pc's I have scrapped and a few retail ones, think I also have a genuine vista or two knocking around too, that good enough lol. Just to 100% certain, do I need to install the release preview if doing a clean install, IE does it scan for it when doing a clean install ? Or should I just buy it, burn it and install it and then scrap an XP COA so i'm being a legal bunny. EDIT// Pookey, whats the difference between win8 and start8, they look very similar but I see you installed both.
After looking at the video of it.... apologize me, but why ? You don't need it even for the firmware updates. @modd1uk: Start8 is a start menu button for the desktop mode.
I got that..but pookey said he installed : Win8 -- http://windows8startbutton.com/ and start 8 -- http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/
When Pookey referred to Win8, I'm pretty sure he was referring to Windows 8, and not that software. Very silly name for a piece of software. Can't see MS being happy with them using that name.
Buy, run the setup within a genuine activated Windows to download the ISO and prepare a disk or USB flash drive. And apparently, just restart your computer, and run the setup by booting from the disk or USB flash drive, and you should be good.
I was indeed referring to Windows 8, yes. I have also installed Stardock's Start8, which is brilliant BTW. Boots straight to desktop and gives you a perfectly normal functioning Windows 7 start button.
