First OS

nineteenforty4 · 23 Aug 2013 at 22:38

Hi

I was just wanting to know, can you use the windows 8 preview, downloaded to a disc, as the first OS for a computer? Has anyone done this?

Its just microsofts student version requires a microsoft OS beforehand. (which is retarded imo)
Or would you have to use linux as your first OS then download the preview to get the student OS?

Thanks

nineteenforty4 · 23 Aug 2013 at 23:18

Really? damn
I cant get any xp to install on a new pc
for gods sake I only need an os for 10 minutes, bloody microsoft

thenewoc said:
I would have thought it would have an option for fresh install.

yeah but its £140 extra............
cause thats how to attract new customers........

nineteenforty4 · 23 Aug 2013 at 23:40

thenewoc said:
prob quicker to boot from a linux distro cd.

yeah I was thinking using linux to start the thing but if I cant download a trial version of a MS OS then I'm screwed because thats a requirement.

I hate my uni, first MS's email system that dosent work, now demanding I run a particular OS

nineteenforty4 · 23 Aug 2013 at 23:54

d_brennen said:
Have a cuppa

Right so linux
then install what with the key? a preview version?
then download win8
is that right?

thenewoc said:
If you got xp

I have xp on a very old pc that cant have wind 8 on it and I cant get XP to move cos its oem

nineteenforty4 · 24 Aug 2013 at 00:07

d_brennen said:
Nonono, download the version you own if you haven't already

I have windows xp oem can I download that? I was told I couldn't

and I haven't done anything yet I'm ordering the parts in a few days (I'm £60 under, without taking it from other bank accounts, so I'm waiting for payday)
I just want to know if I can do it and how to.

nineteenforty4 · 24 Aug 2013 at 00:15

d_brennen said:
Just use the Windows 8 image you will get when you buy it, anything else is adding complications to something fairly straightforward

I'm not the one making it complicated!!!
Microsoft requires you to have a microsoft OS installed before doing this. :mad:

nineteenforty4 · 24 Aug 2013 at 00:28

I do despise MS now almost as much as my uni

why cant they just do things simply

nineteenforty4 · 24 Aug 2013 at 01:35

Glaucus said:
Your trying to cheap out and use it for something it was meant for.

I'm trying to get the student version which I'm required to get for my studies.....

nineteenforty4 · 24 Aug 2013 at 01:46

Glaucus said:
If its oem then you don't need an os.

The oem is on the old pc

and you could download it with a trial microsoft OS installed so its not a case of needing a liscence

nineteenforty4 · 24 Aug 2013 at 01:49

Glaucus said:
What version are you trying to install, just becuase you can download it, doesn't mean that's what it's designed for.

Tell us what version you are trying to install.

Student version which is what I've been told to get.

nineteenforty4 · 24 Aug 2013 at 01:53

Yes

also "Windows 8 Consumer Preview, or Windows 8 Release Preview"

nineteenforty4 · 25 Aug 2013 at 22:17

Deus Ex said:
Which uni you at and why is it so bad out of curiosity?

I wont say which one, but they only email things out to us, never say in person and the emails along with the whole IT system is terrible, you can not get an email for weeks you can be unable to log in to ANY computer for days, you can upload stuff, go back to the page see its uploaded get a confirm email days later and you lecturer still cant see the document on the their end.

We are also required to do so much irrelevant rubbish, like I have to learn the mathematics used for computer programming - nothing to do with our course at all! Maybe the goons that run our systems should do it instead.