Installing Windows 8

tres · 26 Aug 2014 at 21:44

Hi all,

I have an SSD that I'm not sure if it's playing up.

Problem started with Windows & apps crashing a lot. Historically it was a RAM voltage issue, but then chkdsk showed lots of errors. It couldn't repair, so I've formatted the SSD and want to try again with Windows.

But, I don't have a blank DVD to burn my Windows image on to (legit, dreamspark copy). I do have the image file however.

I somehow had a spare installation of Windows on another HD, and want to use the working HD to attempt to copy the Windows image to the SSD. Can you do this? 'pre'-copy the necessary installation files from the image to the SSD, for installation on the SSD?

Within this temp Windows HD, it shows the SSD to have no errors.

tres · 26 Aug 2014 at 21:47

Ah, ignore me. It's just randomly restarted again, therefore I am guessing it's another RAM issue.

Quartz · 26 Aug 2014 at 22:57

Make a bootable USB key.

tres · 27 Aug 2014 at 09:00

For future reference (if anyone else finds this thread by searching)

1) Format hard drive (NTFS)
2) Copy these from the Windows 8 media to your hard disk:
-Boot
-Sources
-Bootmgr
3) Make the hard disk bootable by typing this into cmd, with X as your new hard drive letter
diskpart
list disk
select disk X
list partition
select partition X
active
exit
X:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 X:
4) Restart, and choose the hard drive as the bootable drive. This will start a fast installation of windows