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Triple booting win8, win7 and ubuntu

Hi guys I have just downloaded win 8 from Microsoft but I want to triple boot my laptop is that please help.
Extra info : ram 4gb
Hard disk 320gb
Core 2duo processor
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You can dual boot win8 and win7 its a breeze, i just did follow this simple steps posted on microsoft-news.com

just make three partition on your laptop...one for each.. or you can install Ubuntu through wubi on windows 7 and windows 8 on a separate partition.. am currently using like this...

Easiest way is to install ubuntu inside windows 7 and use VMware to instal Windows 8 on virtual machine.

I did that today. Could go without windows eight tho.

thnx everyone i run win8 in VMware..

rajatbajpai0072 said:
Hi guys I have just downloaded win 8 from Microsoft but I want to triple boot my laptop is that please help.
Extra info : ram 4gb
Hard disk 320gb
Core 2duo processor
Sent from my GT540 using xda premium
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Its actually pretty simple.Just dual boot windows 7 and 8.Im sure u knw how o do this.Then install Ubuntu alongside 7 through the boot setup!

If you had a newer CPU, I'd suggest using Client Hyper-V (from Win8) to run the other OSes virtually, but the Core 2 family lacks second-level address translation, which means Hyper-V messes up desktop performance so MS made SLAT mandatory on client (non-server) builds if you want Hyper-V.

rajatbajpai0072 said:
Hi guys I have just downloaded win 8 from Microsoft but I want to triple boot my laptop is that please help.
Extra info : ram 4gb
Hard disk 320gb
Core 2duo processor
Sent from my GT540 using xda premium
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I had my windows 7 installed , and then i installed ubuntu. Now , lets say you installed windows 7 on a LocalDrive (c):, then in this drive there will be some files.
wubildr
wubildr.cfg
wubuildr.mbr
These are the files that gets your ubuntu booted.
So just install windows 8 normmally on some other drive. (note: dont keep any operating system in same drive. Make a 100gb for windows 7 , 50gb for ubuntu(if you not compiling any big projects) and 100 gb for Windows 8 , and the rest 70 gb a 4th hard drive )
You can store songs and stuff in any drive you want.
NOTE:
When you boot up your computer,this is what happens,
1) Bios awakes all the hardware("Goodmorning mouse,keyboard harddisk, any other devices connected too (except your internet router) )
2)Bios finds a operating system and boots up its "SELECT OPERATING SYSTEM"(called bootmanager).(in my pc when i use windows 8 and shut it down, the next time i start pc i get windows 8's boot menu. but if i use windows 7 and shut it down , and next time when i turn on my pc i get windows 7's bootmenu, You wont get ubuntu boot menu on startup)
3)Go to Windows 8 , open my computer . Now you will see that the drive on which you installed Windows 8 is now C drive..
4) Find out on which drive you had your windows 7, open it, go to program files. and use which ever software you had without reinstalling it, Like lets say if i want photoshop, then i will go to windows 7 drive, open program files, then Adobe, then photoshop cs5 and here there will be photoshop.exe, i will create shortcut on desktop (use this method only when the software publisher have not published the software for windows 8, eg TeamViewer , they released their software for windows 8 , so i wont link it to desktop from my windows 7 files.. I will download a new one.. )
Thats it.. have fun buddy..
Check this out.
Google EasyBCD. And then download that software. so if you ever mess up , then you can make a new entry in your bootmanager and name it what you want. lets say you mess up with ubuntu, and in boot menu ubuntu option doesnt come, then you go to windows 7/8 and then open up EasyBCD , make a new entry , name it Ubuntu(or what ever you want) and then point it out to "wubildr.mbr" (remeber , make backup of the three files i told above..) Also you can change the names of existing OS. Like Windows 7 can be changed into Hello, This is Windows 7 . Then this will appear in your boot screen..
Hope i helped. I know you booted windows 8 in VM, but VMs are slow... I just gave you extra info so u know what to do if you mess up on install new OS again

rajatbajpai0072 said:
Hi guys I have just downloaded win 8 from Microsoft but I want to triple boot my laptop is that please help.
Extra info : ram 4gb
Hard disk 320gb
Core 2duo processor
Sent from my GT540 using xda premium
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It is easy install Ubuntu alongside win7 and install windows 8 to a different partision

you can install them separately, each on a partition
it is very normal and easy
i did it, i installed windows 7 then 8 then ubuntu
just make sure to install ubuntu after all because of the grub boot loader

Win 8, then Hyper-V as many different OSs as you have space for, its quick, painless, you don't need to worry about Linux over zealous bootloaders screwing everything up, unless you are running several at the same time even a moderate spec'd PC with the correct hardware requirements will run them both without much of an issue.
one thing I miss from 7 is the ability to run XP programs right of my desktop, I have some USB hardware that only supports 32bit XP, on 64 bit 7 I VM'd with XP mode, had the program icon that used said hardware right on my 7 desktop, double clicked, and for all intensive purposes it ran and worked the hardware as if it was on that very os
pretty impressed I have to say, alas it doesn't work like that on 8 which is a shame

Can you run Windows 8 on VM on a w7 system?

Has anyone tried to run the Win 8 developer preview on a VM under Windows 7? If so, how does it run?

works fine on virtualbox
runs fairly smooth but im not allocating a lot of resources to it so it would run better with more power

I gave it one core of an i7 and 1GB ram in virtualbox and it runs pretty smooth.

Thanks guys.
As soon as I can figure out how to remove win 8 dual boot from my laptop I am going to try the VM. Right now it crashes when it cannot find the external drive on boot. Anyone know which files I have to restore so that the system does not come up with the Win startup screens?

I couldn't get it to work with VMware 7, so I just used VirtualBox and it worked.

StarbuxMcCloud said:
I couldn't get it to work with VMware 7, so I just used VirtualBox and it worked.
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Doesn't work with vmware 7, but is fine with vmware 8.

It works with virtual box I haven't tried with vmware.

I cant get it working on Virtualbox, what am I doing wrong?

stressfreesoul said:
I cant get it working on Virtualbox, what am I doing wrong?
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Make sure your computer's virtualization is turned on. I don't remember what the exact name was, but go to your bios and check for virtualization and make sure it says "enabled".

stressfreesoul said:
I cant get it working on Virtualbox, what am I doing wrong?
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Follow this guide:
http://www.sysprobs.com/guide-install-windows-8-virtualbox
I was getting errors until I followed that guide. It worked perfectly after that.

w8 only works. with vmware version 8. If you got the driver boot error try this:
1. create new vm (disable automatic start)
2. deactivate floppy drive
3. start vm

thx for the info I was wondering if it works on virtualbox I guess I something to do today

[Q] Installing Windows Phone SDK on Atom

I have Samsung Ativ Smart PC notebook (tablet transformer) based on Intel Atom Z2760 and Windows 8 x86 core.
Windows Phone SDK 8.0 required Windows 8 x64, Hyper-V and hardware virtualization. But if I don't need Windows Phone Emulator, I don't need Hyper-V and hardware virtualization.
Is there a way to install Windows Phone SDK without Emulator?
(Sorry, translated from Russian)

oh
The windows phone SDK comes with a complete set of tools, so while installing you can't CHOOSE what you want or not....
You have just 2 options-
1 : Install it with every thing which is present in the SDK.
2 : Maybe after installation TRY to delete/uninstall the phone emulator separately but at first you HAVE to let it install completely.
Hit thanks if you got me..!!

SUDALV said:
I have Samsung Ativ Smart PC notebook (tablet transformer) based on Intel Atom Z2760 and Windows 8 x86 core.
Windows Phone SDK 8.0 required Windows 8 x64, Hyper-V and hardware virtualization. But if I don't need Windows Phone Emulator, I don't need Hyper-V and hardware virtualization.
Is there a way to install Windows Phone SDK without Emulator?
(Sorry, translated from Russian)
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did you ever find a solution to this? I am having the same issue...

[HELP] Installing Windows 8 over Windows XP

I have a desktop computer about 4 year old, running Windows XP. It has hardware robust enough to run Windows 8. So, I created a bootable usb drive using Windows 7 usb tool in my laptop running Windows 7 HP x64. The usb drive works fine on my laptop, both while booting from it as well as using it while already booted on Win 7 to install Windows 8. But when I insert it to my desktop, and run setup.exe, it shows that setup.exe is not a valid win32 application. And if I boot from it, just shows the Windows 8 logo and does nothing, even if I leave it for a couple of hours, I have purchased Windows 8 for both my pcs but I am not able to install it on my desktop. Help.
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Windows XP 32-bit will likely be unable to start the 64-bit setup.exe file, you'll have to boot the installer from the USB stick or from a DVD.
or use a 32-bit ISO and install a 32-bit version of Windows 8.

As nbates said you can't run apps with different architecture. Make sure you have the right settings set in the BIOS (make the USB device bootable) and install again. I think that there was an app called Wintousb or something like that. That's the best app for making a bootable usb.
EDIT:
WinToFlash, that's how the app is called
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nbates66 said:
Windows XP 32-bit will likely be unable to start the 64-bit setup.exe file, you'll have to boot the installer from the USB stick or from a DVD.
or use a 32-bit ISO and install a 32-bit version of Windows 8.
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Since Windows XP both a 32Bit and a 64Bit version exist. OP therefore should clearly specify which machine have what OS version running...
EDIT:
Another worthwile freeware tool is WiNToBootic - the ultimate Windows Boot Disk Maker

jwoegerbauer said:
Since Windows XP both a 32Bit and a 64Bit version exist. OP therefore should clearly specify which machine have what OS version running...
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yeah since XP 64-bit was mostly unpopular i'm assuming they're using 32-bit XP.

cheema1234 said:
hello my name is garry . i have IBM destop with 1 GB ram Intel pentium 4 processor 3.00E GHz (3000.0 MHz) MOTHERBOARD intel 865GV. i was trying to install window 8 pro on this but when i was trying to install on it it shows your system doest support NX compatible .i know what is this but i want just ask can we install window 8 without NX .do u have any solution for this i mean bypass this NX .i have found these error code while installation.Error Code: 0x0000005D
Parameters:
0x0306170A
0x756E6547
0x49656E69
0x6C65746E
please help me
Thanks
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Watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-5kVNwPUo4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwLGNZ1PNrU
HTH

[Q] Windows or Linux on Acer Tablet

Hello,
Is it possible to run, either though virtual machine or by dual boot, to run another system such as Linux (Ubuntu) or Windows 98 or Windows XP?

TheRPGLPer said:
Hello,
Is it possible to run, either though virtual machine or by dual boot, to run another system such as Linux (Ubuntu) or Windows 98 or Windows XP?
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You already can run Linux on this tab, it's not practical but you can. As for Windows, 98 and XP are not Arm compatible so there is no go for those. The only possibility is Windows 8 RT and it only runs on their official hardware.

skurtov said:
You already can run Linux on this tab, it's not practical but you can. As for Windows, 98 and XP are not Arm compatible so there is no go for those. The only possibility is Windows 8 RT and it only runs on their official hardware.
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okay thank you. do you have any tips to run linux on this tablet? I'm not at all new to how android runs (5 android devices of mine are hacked) but I am completely new to this inconia tab. What would I need to do?
EDIT: Never mind I can chroot Linux to run it.