On the evening of Friday the 27th I monumentally (at least I thought) fucked up my laptop.
I did read the warnings that came on the website and I thought it meant system restore not use installtion disk ¬.¬
Here's how the story goes.
Talking to my friend on xbox and I randomly realise "hey, I wonder if Windows 8 is coming out soon" After a bit of googling I find out that I can download the developer preview version, naturally, I was excited I began downloading the iso. file. The download completed after I ate with my family and I then installed it. everything went fine.
When I started my laptop up (my laptop isn't very good and to this into perspective before I ran Windows 7 I ran Vista on it :S) the interface was nice even the loading symbol was nice (little dots chasing around a circle). The main interface on startup is/was much like the new xbox dashboard
... imagine a green background with boxes and a sliding interface (I imagine you can google for pictures) this interface was/is called metro.
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When I clicked on the desktop button from the metro interface I basically shat myself. My desktop was gone, worse, when I checked my documents my school work was gone too and all my music. After frantically looking praying it was loading up I had lost all hope, it dawned on me I would have to start my laptop from scratch or try system restore...
which didn't work because it was developer preview mode I could search and select system restore but not open the interface to actually do it...I thought I was screwed... As a last resort I went into my older brother's room seeking help from the computer guru. He search the "my computer" section where I noticed "Old.Windows" I became hopeful and yes there was all my old stuff.
Saturday 28th
I've been copying all my stuff as a backup so I can then reinstall good old windows 7
. (this is really dumb of me BTW) after copying all the necassary files and videos etc. I put in the windows 7 disk and installed it. After installtion completed I noticed a new "Old.Windows [1]" folder I then checked the un-numbered folder and my stuff was already in there...I felt reaaaalllllyyy dumb at this point.
I had my windows 7 back at about 10:00 PM and began reinstalling all the super essential stuff such as microsoft word, powerpoint, excel (luckily I had 1 extra serial key in the box).
Sunday 29th
reinstalling all the less essential stuff, guitar pro 6, iTunes, photoshop.
When I'm done reinstalling and copying all my stuff I will delete the "Old.Windows" folders (both of them) and put this disaster behind myself.
It happened over the course of a weekend...weekend well wasted ¬.¬.
My overall opinion of Windows 8?
Not bad, It did give me a little graph when I copied things showing how fast I copied at which point in the graph. The new Windows Explorer is great it has lots of extra features (mostly for less advanced users) such as copying the link address of where you are in windows explorer. lots of easy buttons that allowed searchy easier and faster. That was my only observation really, I was kinda shitting myself over whether or not I would get my stuff back but anyway...
Oh and the new Metro thing is not good...I'm gonna be sticking with Windows 7 for now, I had a very bad experience so my opinion right now is clouded but still
So yeah that was my god awful experience with Windows 8 (Developer Preview).
If you want to try it for yourself here's where you can download it (4.8 GB)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/br229516
Lessons I have learned
Don't be a dipshit
Don't install stuff
EDIT: Sunday 29th 11:00 AM
I've begun installing all of my programs and applications, almost done (this post is sounding bloggy now)
Sunday 29th 2:27 PM
I've finished installing all of my necassary applications, anything I'm now missing I can probably install at a later date.
Had to battle my laptop to delete a trusted installer folder. Let it be known that I was victorious
I did read the warnings that came on the website and I thought it meant system restore not use installtion disk ¬.¬
Here's how the story goes.
Talking to my friend on xbox and I randomly realise "hey, I wonder if Windows 8 is coming out soon" After a bit of googling I find out that I can download the developer preview version, naturally, I was excited I began downloading the iso. file. The download completed after I ate with my family and I then installed it. everything went fine.
When I started my laptop up (my laptop isn't very good and to this into perspective before I ran Windows 7 I ran Vista on it :S) the interface was nice even the loading symbol was nice (little dots chasing around a circle). The main interface on startup is/was much like the new xbox dashboard
... imagine a green background with boxes and a sliding interface (I imagine you can google for pictures) this interface was/is called metro.
anyway><
When I clicked on the desktop button from the metro interface I basically shat myself. My desktop was gone, worse, when I checked my documents my school work was gone too and all my music. After frantically looking praying it was loading up I had lost all hope, it dawned on me I would have to start my laptop from scratch or try system restore...
which didn't work because it was developer preview mode I could search and select system restore but not open the interface to actually do it...I thought I was screwed... As a last resort I went into my older brother's room seeking help from the computer guru. He search the "my computer" section where I noticed "Old.Windows" I became hopeful and yes there was all my old stuff.
Saturday 28th
I've been copying all my stuff as a backup so I can then reinstall good old windows 7
. (this is really dumb of me BTW) after copying all the necassary files and videos etc. I put in the windows 7 disk and installed it. After installtion completed I noticed a new "Old.Windows [1]" folder I then checked the un-numbered folder and my stuff was already in there...I felt reaaaalllllyyy dumb at this point.I had my windows 7 back at about 10:00 PM and began reinstalling all the super essential stuff such as microsoft word, powerpoint, excel (luckily I had 1 extra serial key in the box
). Sunday 29th
reinstalling all the less essential stuff, guitar pro 6, iTunes, photoshop.
When I'm done reinstalling and copying all my stuff I will delete the "Old.Windows" folders (both of them) and put this disaster behind myself.
It happened over the course of a weekend...weekend well wasted ¬.¬.
My overall opinion of Windows 8?
Not bad, It did give me a little graph when I copied things showing how fast I copied at which point in the graph. The new Windows Explorer is great it has lots of extra features (mostly for less advanced users) such as copying the link address of where you are in windows explorer. lots of easy buttons that allowed searchy easier and faster. That was my only observation really, I was kinda shitting myself over whether or not I would get my stuff back but anyway...
Oh and the new Metro thing is not good...I'm gonna be sticking with Windows 7 for now, I had a very bad experience so my opinion right now is clouded but still
So yeah that was my god awful experience with Windows 8 (Developer Preview).
If you want to try it for yourself here's where you can download it (4.8 GB)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/br229516
Lessons I have learned
Don't be a dipshit
Don't install stuff
EDIT: Sunday 29th 11:00 AM
I've begun installing all of my programs and applications, almost done (this post is sounding bloggy now)
Sunday 29th 2:27 PM
I've finished installing all of my necassary applications, anything I'm now missing I can probably install at a later date
.Had to battle my laptop to delete a trusted installer folder. Let it be known that I was victorious
