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Re: New Precision T7600 and Windows 8 compatibility - IT'S A NIGHMARE

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You are correct there are no Dell Win 8 drivers. I am using Win 7 64bit drivers.

You can try what I have done and that is Windows 7 allows you to boot from a VHD, effectively you would create a dual boot system running Windows 7 standard and Windows 8 from the VHD.

That way you can test the waters before hand. I was running for the first few months like that. Once everything was sorted out I clean installed Windows 8 Pro directly on the drive itself.

Using VHD Boot you can play with Win 8 and if it gives you any trouble, simply detach the VHD in Disk Management and delete the VHD, end of story.

I found a nice and simple step by step instruction see below:

How to Create Windows 8 VHD for Boot to VHD using simple, easy to follow steps.

blogs.technet.com/.../how-to-create-windows-8-vhd-for-boot-to-vhd-using-simple-easy-to-follow-steps.aspx

In fact VHDs are great for testing things out without messing up your current setup.

I do hope that now that Windows 8.1 is nearly out that we will get the official Windows 8 Dell drivers. One can only hope.

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