Already have Win7 back. Needed to because I have skins to do. Not even gonna try that Win8. Maybe I'll give it another shot later but for now....work to do.

Well I have made some progress, though things aren't 100% as yet.  I'm getting the dual boot screen in Win 8 now, and Win 7 appears in the boot section of msconfig, but it still won't boot without the disc on board.  Now the offending file, Winload.exe, is where it is supposed to be, despite the error message saying it isn't.  The error, however, has changed to 0xc0000428 from 0xc000000f, whatever that means.

Anyhow, there's not a lot more I can do now.  I did a bit of research and unsuccessfully tried a few suggested remedies, so I'm at a loss until yrag or somebody more knowledgeable than I comes along.

Hah, and there I was, not interested in Win 8 and with no intentions whatsoever of installing it.  Yeah, right!  I've spent the better part of the last 24 hours trying to get it working properly... bah, what a bloody idiot.

Virtual Box...

Win 8 install took 20 minutes to be up and running...a few more to make sure the guest and host knew each other...and dl and install SD's "start" button .....

Am dragging it screaming and kicking towards being a sensible OS ....

I really don't get why people still mess with their real hardware with free virtualization tools arround.

I'm giving it another shot. If it doesn't work this time Win 8 is toast.

I can imagine what that image is.

Funny...Wiz can't see it either. 

I see Worf just fine. 

How do you use these tools ? Yes, i know they exist, but there is no help on how to use them ? They are very technical and to myself are not very easy to understand.

Ah fixt iut! 

Windows 8 has been nuked!

Virtual Box is pretty much self explaining. And don't want to sound harsh but: If Virtual Box is 'too technical', one should really avoid installing betas of operating systems.