Been there! I had a manky old beige ps2 kb under my bed for years for just those occasions after the first time I was caught out.
Whats your worst experience of installing windows
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Been there! I had a manky old beige ps2 kb under my bed for years for just those occasions after the first time I was caught out.
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When I plug my Galaxy S3 into my computer during start-up it hangs my computer and severely restricts my system. I recently left it plugged in during a Windows 8 install. After wondering why it had taken over six hours (unattended) and was still not complete, I figured out the problem. 
Oh and I opened my disk drive to retrieve the Windows 8 installation disk after shutting my system down. Just as I stuck my finger into the central hole the drive closed.
Oh and I opened my disk drive to retrieve the Windows 8 installation disk after shutting my system down. Just as I stuck my finger into the central hole the drive closed.
Otherwise known as virtual machines... sorry someone had to say it.
About 4 years ago a neighbor asked me to install 7 over their XP and pop a bit more RAM in it.
RAM installed fine, Windows XP booted - no immediate issues.
Windows 7 goes in, upgrade goes fine for around 30 minutes then BSOD.
Boots PC, BSOD.
Try again, no power.
Removes RAM modules, uses untouched RAM I had lying around - W7 boots no issues.
No data on the disc, except for Windows 7.
RAM installed fine, Windows XP booted - no immediate issues.
Windows 7 goes in, upgrade goes fine for around 30 minutes then BSOD.
Boots PC, BSOD.
Try again, no power.
Removes RAM modules, uses untouched RAM I had lying around - W7 boots no issues.
No data on the disc, except for Windows 7.
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Windows 8. The horror.
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My worst experience was installing Windows for Workgroups 3.11 across 15 different systems. None of them had the same hardware, so an image wasn't possible. Wait -- an image wasn't possible because there was no way to image back then. DOS 6.22 was installed first from (5?) 3.5" floppies, then WFWG. OS consisted of 26 3.5" floppies, waiting for each one to finish and swapping in the next. No drivers were integrated, which meant manual installation and configuration of video, network, sound, and (gasp!) a modem. IRQ conflicts were always fun to deal with.
Luckily there were no post-build patches to deal with, and anti-virus ran off just one floppy with no problem.
Luckily there were no post-build patches to deal with, and anti-virus ran off just one floppy with no problem.
Definitely this one to be honest, Countless times this has happened.
Windows 8 is awesome, I took my SSD out my PC to check how my friends would run with one & it booted straight off the bat no blue screens on loading!
Win8 has legacy drivers etc..also check AMD's website probably find there are 13.1s available,end of the day its down to AMD or laptop manufacturer not Microsoft for AMD Radeon drivers so don't know why you are blaming Win8.
I would say WinXP,reason why?. still holds the BSOD record for any OS I have owned.
I had to do a re-install of the NT Small Business Server for a company I used to work for (there was no backup domain controller at that time). Shut down all the client PC's early so I could hopefully get it all done by midnight. Everything that could go wrong went wrong including managing to screw up the backup of Exchange server which I couldn't recover. Spent too much time trying to find out what was wrong on a crappy 50k dial-up connection. I eventually fell asleep at my desk at about 6am with the prospect of having to explain to everyone how I had lost the entire companies emails when they arrived.
I had to keep lieing that I "might" be able to get the emails back later knowing full well they were lost forever, muttering about "hardware issues" and other random jargon. I wasn't popular for a quite some time but managed to blag my way out of serious trouble. NT was the pits.
I had to keep lieing that I "might" be able to get the emails back later knowing full well they were lost forever, muttering about "hardware issues" and other random jargon. I wasn't popular for a quite some time but managed to blag my way out of serious trouble. NT was the pits.
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Trying to install Vista, and it was telling me I had to format the drive a particular way (to some funky format which I was unable to do initially). Several hours later and forum advice I found a tool I could format the drive with.
After it was all installed... I then went through the install process again.. and what do I find... it would let me install it with the original format type that it initially refused me to install on! I was a little mad.
lol... right there with you
(I'm getting used to it now 
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After it was all installed... I then went through the install process again.. and what do I find... it would let me install it with the original format type that it initially refused me to install on! I was a little mad.
Seeing the stupid tile screen after first time of installing window8 and then noticing the start menu button missing bug in it..
lol... right there with you
(I'm getting used to it now )Now you need to try one the new w8 mobile phones....lol... right there with you
I had a play with one in my local phone shop at the weekend...
Lets just say I put it back down a lot faster then I picked it up...