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30075
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upgrade Win7 to Win8 Consumer Preview

Post by 30075 »

I have a PC that doesn't have any data on it that I actually care about. It currently dual-boots between Win7 Pro and Ubuntu 12.04.

If I want to upgrade the Windows installation to the Win8 Consumer Preview, what do I need to be aware of? I see the warnings about Win8 on here, but I wouldn't have any other NTFS partitions to worry about. How do I re-enable BING?

Thanks
mjnelson99
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Re: upgrade Win7 to Win8 Consumer Preview

Post by mjnelson99 »

You can also create an image of the Win 7 Pro BEFORE you
install Win 8 in case you change your mind.

On 5/21/2012 9:03 AM, 30075 wrote:
> I have a PC that doesn't have any data on it that I actually care about.

It currently dual-boots between Win7 Pro and Ubuntu 12.04.
>
> If I want to upgrade the Windows installation to the Win8 Consumer Preview,

what do I need to be aware of? I see the warnings about
Win8 on here, but I wouldn't have any other NTFS partitions
to worry about. How do I re-enable BING?
>
> Thanks
>
>
30075
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Joined: Tue Apr 10, 2012 5:32 pm

Re: upgrade Win7 to Win8 Consumer Preview

Post by 30075 »

OK, I went on and did it. I didn't even have to reenable it, that part went fine.

But I did have issues in that I can no longer boot into Ubuntu, just get a flashing cursor in the upper-left side of the screen. I did have to resize things because the Win7 partition didn't have enough space for the upgrade. So here's the current partition layout followed by what I did.

PARTINFG, Version 1.00
Copyright (c) 2010 TeraByte, Inc. All Rights Reseverd

Run Date: 5/21/2012 1:44 PM

===============================================================================
MBR Partition Information (HD0 - 0xD0F4738C)
(CHS: 1022/239/63) (WCHS: 10333/240/63)
+====+====+=============+====+=============+=============+=============+
| 0: | 80 | 0 32 33 | 7 | 13 239 63 | 2048 | 204800 |
| 1: | 0 | 13 163 20 | 7 | 1023 239 63 | 206848 | 118276096 |
| 2: | 0 | 1023 12 61 | df | 1023 239 63 | 156235776 | 12288 |
| 3: | 0 | 1023 41 42 | f | 1023 239 63 | 118482944 | 37752832 |
+====+====+=============+====+=============+=============+=============+
Volume Information
+----+----+-------------+----+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| 0: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1: | 0 | 1023 202 11 | 5 | 1023 239 63 | 2046 | 4194306 |
| 2: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
+----+----+-------------+----+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| 0: | 0 | 1023 74 11 | 82 | 1023 239 63 | 2 | 4194304 |
| 1: | 0 | 1023 170 27 | 5 | 1023 239 63 | 4196352 | 33556480 |
| 2: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
+----+----+-------------+----+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| 0: | 0 | 1023 202 59 | 83 | 1023 239 63 | 2048 | 33554432 |
| 1: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
+----+----+-------------+----+-------------+-------------+-------------+

===============================================================================
EMBR Found (HD0)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Revision: 2 Min SPT: 9 Sectors: 1 SSize: 512
Last Cyl: 1022 Last Hd: 239 SPT: 63
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MPT Found Revision: 5 Number of Entries: 4 Flag: 1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Num Name Flag Start End FS ID
----- ------------------ ------ ----------------- ----------------- ---- ----
0 System Reserved 0 2048 206847 7 1
1 Windows 7 0 206848 118482943 7 2
2 Extended 2000 118482944 156235775 F 81
3 BootIt EMBRM 4000 156235776 156248063 DF 80
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MBFT Found Revision: 2 Number of Entries: 0
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MDT Found Revision: 2 Number of Entries: 1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0: BootIt EMBRL Flag: 20 Start: 0 NumSecs: 7 Alloc: 70 ID: 0
===============================================================================
BOOT SECTOR INFORMATION
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
File System ID: 0x7 LBA: 2048 Total Sectors: 204800 ID: 0x1
Jump: EB 52 90
OEM Name: NTFS
Bytes Per Sec: 512
Sec Per Clust: 8
Res Sectors: 0
Zero 1: 0x0
Zero 2: 0x0
NA 1: 0x0
Media: 0xF8
Zero 3: 0x0
Sec Per Track: 63
Heads: 240
Hidden Secs: 2048
NA 2: 0x0
NA 3: 0x800080
Total Sectors: 0x031FFF
MFT LCN: 0x02155
MFT Mirr LCN: 0x02
Clust Per FRS: 0xF6
Clust Per IBlock: 0x1
Volume SN: 0x9AAA9441AA941BB7
Checksum: 0x0
Boot Flag: 0xAA55
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
File System ID: 0x7 LBA: 206848 Total Sectors: 118276096 ID: 0x2
Jump: EB 52 90
OEM Name: NTFS
Bytes Per Sec: 512
Sec Per Clust: 8
Res Sectors: 0
Zero 1: 0x0
Zero 2: 0x0
NA 1: 0x0
Media: 0xF8
Zero 3: 0x0
Sec Per Track: 63
Heads: 240
Hidden Secs: 206848
NA 2: 0x0
NA 3: 0x800080
Total Sectors: 0x070CBFFF
MFT LCN: 0x0C0000
MFT Mirr LCN: 0x02
Clust Per FRS: 0xF6
Clust Per IBlock: 0x1
Volume SN: 0xB0EA9622445D06C2
Checksum: 0x0
Boot Flag: 0xAA55
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
File System ID: 0xDF LBA: 156235776 Total Sectors: 12288 ID: 0x80
Jump: E9 77 0
OEM Name: BOOTITXX
Bytes Per Sec: 512
Sec Per Clust: 8
Res Sectors: 1
Num FATs: 2
Root Dir Ents: 512
Sectors: 12288
Media: 0xF8
Secs Per FAT: 5
Sec Per Track: 63
Heads: 240
Hidden Secs: 156235776
Huge Sectors: 0
Drive Num: 0x80
Res: 0x0
Sig: 0x29
Vol ID: 0x4F8A0661
Volume Label: BOOTIT~1
FS Type: FAT12
Boot Flag: 0xAA55
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

So there was the two partitions for Win7 (initially only Win7 was on this box), the partition for BIBM -- I just call it BING because I talk out loud to myself while typing & it's easier to say :). I then a while back created an extended partition for Ubuntu, and It had two partitions within it -- one for Linux swap, one for ext4 Ubuntu root.

So I:
1) resized the Ubuntu root partition, made it quite a bit smaller
2) resized the extended partition a corresponding amount
3) did a 'slide' to put the new free space immediately in front of the Windows 7 main partition
4) resized the Win7 main partition to consume all that free space

So I should have ended up exactly where I started, just different sizes. Not sure where I went wrong... I will edit this to add the BIBM settings in a few minutes.
30075
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Re: upgrade Win7 to Win8 Consumer Preview

Post by 30075 »

BIBM v.1.08 settings:

General:
============
Limit Primaries
Use Volume Label
BootNow Support
Keep HD Active
Use HD0 in FAT BPB
Make HD0 Active

Global Geometry and Alignment:
=============================
Align on 2048 Sectors
Align on Cylinders
Validate Geometry Before Use
Align MBR for BIOS Auto Mode

and for the Ubuntu menu item, no options are checked. Only 'Default' is checked for the Win8 menu item.
30075
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Re: upgrade Win7 to Win8 Consumer Preview

Post by 30075 »

appears I just screwed up & need to reinstall Grub2 per the KB article. I may just install Unbuntu 64-bit since it was 32.
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