[HLUG] Herefordshire Digest, Vol 1645, Issue 1

[Steve Bushell]

Do you have an upgrade version of windows, and not a full version?

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> On 14 Nov 2013, at 09:52, "Julian Robbins" <joolsr1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Its not really an answer as I don't use Windows 8, so cant help there too
> much .
> 
> But, have you considered installing Linux as your primary os, then
> (assuming you have enough ram), using VirtualBox to install Windows 8 on
> top on your Linux? With Virtualbox you can take whole disk snapshots of the
> virtual machine, so you can for example get it set up and before you make a
> major change on your virtualised Windows system, you can snapshot it
> beforehand, that way its simply to just revert a whole OS install/upgrade
> if required. The snaphot is just a large file in the linux filesystem, so
> the snapshots are entirely safe.
> 
> There are other ways to do this - I use KVM, using virt-manager which has
> better performance but doesnt have the 3D capabilities that VirtualBox has.
> 
> Otherwise you could use Ghost or Clonezilla to make an image of the disk
> and then just copy it to another disk. As long as the disk you are
> transferring it to is bigger than the original disk it works fine.
> 
> 
> Julian
> 
> 
> 
> On 13 November 2013 23:48, Sean Parry <sean at seanparry.free-online.co.uk>wrote:
> 
>> Has anyone got any ideas on this?
>> 
>> I just built a new Windows 8 system today. It came up and ran like a
>> dream. However it will not load windows 8 onto the new hard drive. Without
>> having an earlier copy of windows on the drive. So it looks as if I might
>> end up having to buy a new copy of windows XP, just to over right it, with
>> Windows 8 in order to get it to load!
>> 
>> Sean
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>>> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 18:02:18 +0000
>>> From: Steve Horsfield <horsfield.steve at gmail.com>
>>> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group."
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>>> Subject: [HLUG] Please Miss my pen has stopped working
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>>> GIMP is glorious and buckshee, but judging from the online forums, finding
>>> that it won't write, won't draw and won't paint for no obvious reason is a
>>> fairly common occurrence. Sometimes it has something to do with its
>>> multitude of layers and the solution appears to lie in selecting  the
>>> right
>>> layer, but my favourite solution to the not writing, not painting, not
>>> drawing problem is to choose 'All' from the 'Select' menu. So often it
>>> works, I've no idea why.
>>> 
>>> Steve Horsfield
>> 
>> I just built a new windows 8 system today. It came up and ran like a
>> dream. However it will not load windows 8 onto the new hard drive. Without
>> having an earlier copy of windows on the drive. So I it looks as if I might
>> have to buy a new copy of windows XP, just to over right it, with Windows 8
>> in order to get it to load!
>> 
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