Windows 8 Can Be Stored and Run on a Flash Drive

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]freggo[/nom]Well, I just installed a 30GB SSD I had sitting around and after installing Win 7 Home Premium I had just under 2 Gigs left. Seeing that you never want to completely fill the drive, plus the usual cache from surfing and a few basic applications like Firefox, etc and 30GB is clearly not enough. Next step up would be 64GB as I've never seen anything inbetween 32 and 64.[/citation]

Windows 8 uses less capacity than 7 and you're not installing the entire OS on the drive for this feature, so you might want to recalculate those numbers for this tool because they're not even relevant.

 

[blazorthon]

Also, you should have quite a bit more than 2GB left after installing even the 64 bit version of Windows 7 on a 30GB SSD.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]john_4[/nom]So the copied Ubuntu, I'm suppose to be impressed?[/citation]
But if it was released by Apple you would be lauding it as innovative.

 

[heero yuy]

[citation][nom]A Bad Day[/nom]Drop your USB stick one meter onto a hard surface.Now do the same with a HDD.[/citation]

does chucking the computer it was in down stairs and then stamping on it AND having the entire thing still in a working state (after bending back the bits of case and replacing the fan) count?

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]heero yuy[/nom]does chucking the computer it was in down stairs and then stamping on it AND having the entire thing still in a working state (after bending back the bits of case and replacing the fan) count?[/citation]

Considering that the point of this is for having a storage drive that you can take with you anywhere and boot other computers off of, yes, the shock resistance does matter in this context.

 

[eddieroolz]

As long as they figure out the licensing terms, I'm happy about this.

 

[Shin-san]

I actually like this idea. I can have a copy of Windows that has everything I like on it, and just plug it into a PC when I want to run it. I don't have to bother people with asking to have an account on their PCs.

 

[ojas]

[citation][nom]f-14[/nom]oops forgot to add:[/citation]
Just like in the matrix :O (smith was his name, right? that agent?)

 

[Guest]

win8 is actually a good solid platform once you eliminate metro with one of several startmenu alternatives. although slow, it ran quite well on a 14 yr old toshiba laptop! all drivers for vista were there or worked from install. the new ntfs is great, it runs fast and never crashed once . . .