Windows 8 to feature disc-less reformatting

So what happens when the install partition is corrupted?

Originally posted by ZippyDSM:

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So what happens when the install partition is corrupted?

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or when the hard drive dies?

The option will even leave SOME of your apps unaffected

Yay!!!

More useless features for people who don't know how to use their computers.

Windows 8 is dreadful and unusable. I have shown it to others and everyone hated it. In one review I read it was described as being schizophrenic.

its an ok addition i guess?

Originally posted by Frogfart:

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Windows 8 is dreadful and unusable. I have shown it to others and everyone hated it. In one review I read it was described as being schizophrenic.

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If they would just have a button to remove all the crap the OEM loads on there...Stupid restore disks just load it all back on there...

Yeah, on paper it sounds fine, but it needs to be a CLEAN install, not an OEM version, complete with bloatware.

Blah Blah Blah Yawn....... wow it will take more then OEM gimicks to make people use it. Showed a few non techo people the preview and after 5 minutes they gave up and said it was too hard to use or find ANYTHING....... Windows ME alover again!!!

Originally posted by Anonymous1:

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www.win8progress.us.to

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wow, microsoft is adding lots of great features to windows 8... they really have amazing programmers..

Originally posted by imshashank:

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wow, microsoft is adding lots of great features to windows 8... they really have amazing programmers..

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I understand the frustration but this is a preview not even
a beta yet.
and has been daubed a failure already!

Bill Gates:
I think what I would like to see Microsoft do, is to take an OS, and treat it like an integral part of a computer system, instead of a different flavored ice cream cone with every release.

That goes for Office as well.

One big thing they could do is to work on their help and support. I find myself having to "Google" anything I want to find Windows support for. It seems once you get punished trying to go thru the Windows support user interface and then get rewarded going through Google you lose all faith with the support provided for Windows.

If I am Bill Gates I would realize that my product has room for improvement not just change. You don't necessarily have to produce a new product every time.

I wouldn't say it was hard to find things. I suppose to some, it could be a bit intimidating, given the fresh interface. Not really defending it. Because I doubt I'll ever run it. Windows 7 is near perfect. Windows 8 is a step backwards LOL! Perhaps if I had a touchscreen, I might view it a bit differently. But I'd hardly call it windows anymore.

This "disc-less reformatting" sounds like something my very first computer came loaded with. An HP that had a partition for recovery.

LORDRUSS-As for this feature... Sounds to me like a recovery partition like that similar to what computer manufacturers have been putting on their machines to avoid handing out recovery disks for years.
-----my thoughts exactly. Had a dell netbook with a corrupted recov partition. Nothing I did could access that. Had to have a chat w/ dell and ended up paying $10 for a windows starter disk. Should have just used my copy of enterprise.

ThePASTOR- it needs to be a CLEAN install, not an OEM version, complete with bloatware.
------+1 buddy. Who needs that crap.

I've been a beta tester for quite some time and i have to admit that it's actually pretty nice. Like anything new you just have to get used to it.

Originally posted by ibmeubu:

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I've been a beta tester for quite some time and i have to admit that it's actually pretty nice. Like anything new you just have to get used to it.

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@Semperfipal, i think imshashank must come from the world of paid trolls from the universe of friends of redmond.

Actually you dont need to purchase recovery disks, i never use them, many manufactures stick so much bloat into the recovery image its hardly worth restoring, not to mention their way out of date drives. Its fairly easy to get an OEM install disk install and get windows to see the built in slic chip and then your off.

The nice thing about this is, when the systems a little order and a couple of service packs have come out, you dont have to spend hours stripping all the crap out of the recovery image and then the next two days downloading updates as you can just use a slipstreamed installer disk.

Remove the recovery partition and oh look you just got back 10 - 20 gig of your hard disk, so you bought a system with x size disk and before you had even got it out the box you lost 30 - 40 gig to the os and the recovery partition, nice.

If you ask me, not using read only / removable media to reload a compromised system that's been rooted and then expecting to load an image back off the same read/write media which could have been infected/injected to hell sound like a recipe for disaster if you ask me.

I can also see this being a great feature when a novice user does a full wipe and restore to find out his nic controller is to new and windows recover image doesn't have a driver and cant connect to zip.