Windows 10 Announced - Released 29-Jul-2015

I assume you have Win10 on the UFD. After pressing the power button (UFD is already plugged in) keep tapping F8 until you see a Boot Menu. Choose your UFD.

 

Turns out I need a bigger USB Stick, mine is only an 8 GB

 

Strange. I used an 8 GB UFD and it should fit on a 4 GB UFD.

 

Very. It's just a Lexar 8 GB drive...using universal usb installer and choosing Windows 8.1

 

I used this with an 8 GB UFD. I hope the trial will work. It should. Install it and then double click your Win10 ISO. Or open it in PowerISO.

http://www.poweriso.com/download.htm

In PowerISO click Tools, Create Bootable USB drive.

I mentioned UltraISO on the previous page but I meant PowerISO.

 

It's creating the drive now. Wonder why my ESET NOD 32 flagged it?

 

It just said this, with no mention of choosing a drive. http://i.imgur.com/pqY5GJ8.jpg. I'll wait and see what you say.

 

If I choose next, will it allow me to select a drive?

 

The screenshot suggests that you are running the Windows 10 install from the Windows 7 desktop. If that is correct then I believe you are being offered an upgrade to Windows 7 and there will not be an option to install 10 in a separate partition. I believe you have to burn the Windows 10 ISO to a DVD and boot the DVD to install 10 along side the existing 7 in a dual boot arrangement (if this is incorrect I hope others will jump in a correct this).

Any reason you don't want to install 10 in a virtual machine? It's a whole lot easier and safer.

 

I could do this yes and it works flawlessly, but it seems slower (to be expected) almost to the point of crawling in Virtualbox.

 

You aren't following my instructions. DON'T run the setup in Windows. Boot from the UFD or DVD.

 

Absolutely correct.

 

For now i'll use Virtualbox, but plan to get a new jump drive next time at the store

 

If your UFD doesn't work you could use a DVD. Same result except it takes a few minutes longer.

 

Windows 10 is indeed interesting, running in Virtualbox. I probably should have given it more then 20 GB ..I think i'll delete my F drive and put it all back on my C drive then designate probably 100 GB to it in the morning. I do like the W7 style and the fact I can access the file associations easy.

 

Possibly device control but I would need to know what ESET software your running.

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I'm new to ESET's device control as well - best guess is to create a rule for the devices | drives, etc from being flagged when they are inserted - activated - populated.

You can hit up ESET on Twitter if you need a quick answer or something escalated if a feature is not allowing you to use Windows and your devices as you would like to.

 

Regarding virtual machine performance Virtual Box's defaults are conservative. Along with the 100 GB virtual hard drive I recommend you give the VM at least two gigs of ram, 2 CPU cores and make sure hardware acceleration is ON for the display adapter. Also there may be settings in the actual machine BIOS to support virtualization

 

If I give it 100 GB, it flags it and says "more then 50 percent of the available memory is used for the VM". I wish I could find a happy medium, but no such luck it appears. Very weird. I can only give it around 1990 MB before it starts to give that message, even though I have 4096 MB (4 gigs memory)

It would hurt my host, but would it do any damage if I allotted 2 GB memory to the VM?

 

I doubt it will make much difference if you go with 2gigs or 1.9gigs. Obviously ram dedicated to the VM reduces ram available to the host. Since you have 4gigs I would just close the VM when you're not using Windows 10 to release the ram.

 

Gave it 110 GB and it does indeed slow it down

 

By Mary Jo Foley

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-delivers-first-update-to-its-windows-10-technical-preview-7000034919/

 

Microsoft Delivers First Update to the Windows Technical Preview | Windows 10 content from Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows

 

Just updated to the new build, it said that 360 Total Security for Win10 preview had to be uninstalled before it could continue the install, so far everything seems ok but sometimes the right click menu will stick on the screen & the animations are not very smooth as yet although that might be due to vmware tools needing a update.

 

I have to update tonight.