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Jun 22 2013 12:41pm
okay so i have a sony vaio with windows 8..unfortunatly i did not come with a disc drive
but any way
windows 8 imo is horriable!
the computer is all touch screen and what not
but the question is how would i and could i wipe windows8 and and put xpsp3 or windows 7 on the machine?
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Jun 22 2013 12:47pm
i'm not up to date with the latest technology, but i would use an external disk drive and use a bootable xp or win7 disk.

dunno if you can do it via usb drive or mounted drive or whatnot.

http://forums.d2jsp.org/forum.php?f=188

This post was edited by carteblanche on Jun 22 2013 12:47pm
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Quote (carteblanche @ Jun 22 2013 01:47pm)
i'm not up to date with the latest technology, but i would use an external disk drive and use a bootable xp or win7 disk.

dunno if you can do it via usb drive or mounted drive or whatnot.


would it comply with the machine as well if i did that? dont want to shoot my pc in the foot haha was also thinking the virtual machine route
edit/ ha thanks for the forum was trying to post up fast didnt realise wrong one

This post was edited by LsodmBam on Jun 22 2013 12:50pm
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Quote (carteblanche @ Jun 22 2013 02:47pm)
i'm not up to date with the latest technology, but i would use an external disk drive and use a bootable xp or win7 disk.

dunno if you can do it via usb drive or mounted drive or whatnot.

http://forums.d2jsp.org/forum.php?f=188


This can be done USB Just have to format a drive with a Windows ISO and make it boot-able.
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