Hello nooby. First let me tell you that Ted dog gave you good advice about just running from
the flash drive and leaving win8's hard drive alone...
But I know that's not what you want to hear... SO
nooby wrote:Wow but the instructions do say that some seconds of hard boot
will set it to the needed position to use for booting.
So what am I supposed to do instead?
Changing the win 8 HD after back up?
YES Even if your not going to "touch" the internal hard drive... Do back up...
Inside win8 find the link/command to make a restore disk.
MAKE ONE better yet
make two, one never knows when something will happen to a dvd... there's a how-to here:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content ... dows-8.htm
Notice that just below those instructions there is a section talking about a win7 method...
If you have win8 rather than win8.1 this describes how to make a full system image...
Another thing you really should do
If on the other hand you do have win 8.1 they hid the system image function elsewhere:
«
check out this link»
https://www.techsupportalert.com/conten ... istory.htm
Either way, if your going to play with your win8 internal hard drive, PLEASE make the system image.
This may take several DVDs It might be better to use an external (usb) hard drive...
Making the whole gear into Linux dedicated machine?
Would be cool to have maybe? Any suggestion.
Yeah, But if your used to windows, you might want to duel boot instead...
Either way You need to decide if you want to make your life easier by turning off secure boot...
http://packard-bell-scandic.custhelp.co ... a_id/27071
Document ID: 27071
How to Enable or Disable Secure Boot
Click on the laptop tab...
It will tell you to completely shut down win8. (see the link in my previous post.) And it
looks like you have to (at least temporarily) create a supervisor password do do this...
NOTE this is not the same as switching the bios to "legacy mode" The system would still be
UEFI, It just wouldn't deny permission to boot because of not having a Microsoft approved
"key" etc... But I suspect that most the mainstream Linux are already UEFI aware. Or have an
UEFI version... But if you want to do a little more work, some of them even have methods to
boot on secure boot PCs...
I so want to use the internal HD for saving.
For which reason
AFTER you have made both the recovery disk AND a system image
You can use win8 itself to shrink its size to make room to create a partition(s) to store
your fatdog stuff on. and/or to install a linux to...
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile ... windows-8/
If I take it oot and make it a non booting and
put a USB to boot and it saves to the now external
as kif it is a memory only using the free? space
not program spaces? Only NTFS partition and not EFI?
Then it would be easy to boot too? I am sleepy so
apology for slppy thinking.
I
I been to sleepy to think straight before...
But I'll confess I don't have a clue what your talking about here...
Good luck!