Windows 8 workaround?

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Windows 8 workaround?

Are there workarounds to install Win 8 on a Boot Camp partition?

I foolishly bought Win 8, deleted my Win 7 Boot Camp install in order to set up a larger partition for Win 8--only to discover after the fact that there is no official Boot Camp support.

Is it possible to reinstall my Win 7 on a Boot Camp partition,

then Boot into the Win 7 install

and from there upgrade to Win 8?

--Just curious, and hoping to get back to The Secret World.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.5), 3.2 GHz Intel Core i3 w 12 GB RAM

Posted on Jan 10, 2013 5:34 PM

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Rudegar

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Jan 11, 2013 11:58 AM in response to warnermac

Had win7 64bit ultimate and bought the digital windows 8 pro update and its running fine all apple win7 drivers being used everything works and magic trackpad

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Jan 18, 2013 8:10 AM in response to Rudegar

You said all apple win7 drivers being used?

I have no sound, presently, although the Win 8 OS seems to be working fine.

Any ideas?

--Jeff

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Rudegar

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Jan 18, 2013 9:00 AM in response to warnermac

I installed windows 7 and used bootcamp on osx to make a driver cd which I used in widnows7 to get everything working

those drivers are still being used now that I updated to windows8 first winupdate found a newer amd gpu driver but it was unstable so I rolled back to the bootcamp cetertificed win7 driver

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