Doh! It immediately crashed to a screen saying something similar to the below:Ī required device isn't connected or can't be accessed. Later I decided to test that the recovery partition would boot properly. I used the free version of Macrium Reflect and cloned all partitions except for the D: partition which was empty anyway.Īfter the clone I removed the old drive and booted the SSD. I do have my own Windows 8 media available from a previous computer, but not from ASUS.
I bought a Samsung 840 Pro and proceeded to attempt to clone the 750GB drive to it since there is no recovery media included with the WIndows 8 distribution (and no way to create the media as there was in previous Windows 7 models). It came with a 750GB drive and I intended to replace with an SSD. I bought the G75 with windows 8 installed last week. If the bugs get fixed which I'm sure they will, 8.1 will be better than 8.0 but still too different from 7 and other versions to attract that many people I'm afraid.Note: This post is specific to the Windows 8 G75 model, it don't think it applies to Windows 7. I'm not reloading the 8.1 preview though. The XP machine still has the Enterprise evaluation in dual boot so I'll play with that one when I feel the urge. The end result is that I completely removed the Win 8 dual boot partition I had and gave the space back to Win 7. I didn't try Classic Shell with it because I thought it might conflict with the new Start button too much. The way you can see all installed apps more easily is pretty nice but the bugs left me with a version that was harder to use than the regular Win8. That works fine in the Enterprise evaluation but not in the preview. I was also unable to pin programs to the Start Screen. The right click menu on the new Start Button was nice but just suddenly disappeared and wouldn't come back. Quote from: Dch48 on June 28, 2013, 11:29:40 AM I tried the 8.1 preview and it seems bugged.
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