Tech explained - How to install Windows 8 from a USB drive

[keithwalton]

It seems I've been a bit silly. I hadn't downloaded the latest version of Oracle, even though it told me it was the latest.

Updated to 4.1 and it worked straight away.

Looks quite good tbh, it's a MASSIVE change from the standard Windows layout, but it works... Pretty decent stability and performance considering it's. Pre-Beta release.

Had a little mess about with the latest Ubuntu too, that's amazing! Even running in a VM it's faster, more responsive and better looking than W7.

Pre-beta ??? its way past the beta stage, big hint in the name 'release preview' ms have done things differently this time around. This is now the 3rd 'preview' version which are considered like release candidates in terms of functionality.

Though the developer preview was more like a late beta in terms of content missing and placeholders.

[McPhee]

Pre-beta ??? its way past the beta stage, big hint in the name 'release preview' ms have done things differently this time around. This is now the 3rd 'preview' version which are considered like release candidates in terms of functionality.

Though the developer preview was more like a late beta in terms of content missing and placeholders.

What date did he post that?

[PsiAmp]

Works in XP SP3.

[Skywalker]

Haven't got my hands on W8 CP yet. Have been put off by the metro remarks elswhere but I'll give it a go out of curiosity and this article will come handy.
Cheers!

[dancmd]

My "Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool" keep refusing to write the damn image on the usb stick...

[jimborae]

My "Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool" keep refusing to write the damn image on the usb stick...

Are you trying to do this on a 32bit OS machine? If so it will fail but there is a work around.