Hi everyone, I was wondering if I could install a windows partition on my Galaxy Tab A 9.7" or wipe the android partition and leave just the windows one.
And in any case, will I be able to return to android as if nothing happened?
And would there be problems with drivers and things like that with the windows installation?
Thank you
Not possible. Unless you want yo run an emulator.
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Hi all,
I was wondering wy do We need to use a Windows box (virtual or emulated it doesn't meter) to install Our firmware updates (roms) in a linux based system, its kind of a frustration for Me, I use linux for about 7 years and I had to install a virtualbox with WinXP just to update My phone, or am I missing something??
is there an app that runs natively thought linux?
thanks in advance
Hey guys, i wanted to ask if anyone had managed to install windows or ubuntu images on our Defy with CM7 running on it.
If yes can u help me telling me the steps so i can make it too?
thanks in advance and sorry for my english
i heard that someone run Ubuntu on his phone, but it's very difficult to use it, because of touchscreen interface. I think that running windows is impossible on this phone, except some WP7 mods i would suggest staying on Android
Yep, I have run Ubuntu. It is basically run by mounting an ubuntu image to a loop device mount point. And the GUI is accessed using vnc. Dunno about windows!
You can also try out windows..bt its just windows 95 desktop version..
And pretty easy to achieve
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Hi guys
I want to try the 8.1 update on my XPS 15, but I'm not sure if everything will work flawlessly.
Just in case something goes wrong, I want to switch back to 8.
So, is it possbile to "downgrade" using a system restore point (from Windows 8)?
Thanks!
Matt
no, that wont work. Try loading it into a virtual machine like vmware or virtual box instead assuming you have the full 8.1 iso
VM won't tell you much of anything useful. Even a relatively-low-level hypervisor still has some separation from the bare metal. I'd set up a dual-boot system. If you like 8.1, nuke the 8.0 install afterward.
i don't see any heavy downsides of 8.1... isn't there a recovery partition on your laptop, or a recovery DVD?
that way you could go back to 8
I've recently acquired the Pipo W3F tablet and after switching from Windows 8.1 to Android I wanted to go back to Windows.
I'm able to bring up the OS switcher but there is no Windows icon. Anyone know what is causing this and how to fix? Thanks.
Just a wild guess really, but this could relate too the file-system of the harddrive, unless im mistaken Android uses 'vfat' and 'yaffs2', and you prolly cant install windows on either of those.
That said, im not sure how you would overcome this (or how you even got it to dual boot, since looking at the PIPO site it doesnt do that out of the box) but you will prolly have to flash a firmware image thats windows only again.
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Just a wild guess really, but this could relate too the file-system of the harddrive, unless im mistaken Android uses 'vfat' and 'yaffs2', and you prolly cant install windows on either of those.
That said, im not sure how you would overcome this (or how you even got it to dual boot, since looking at the PIPO site it doesnt do that out of the box) but you will prolly have to flash a firmware image thats windows only again.
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I also got the tablet recently and ran into the same problem. There was no way for me to get back into Windows. I had to re-flash both Android and Windows. It wouldn't let me re-flash just Windows, I was getting an error saying it cannot create a "scratch" directory. I think when re-flashing Android it reset all the partitions. Once the Android OS was installed, the Windows flashed without any problem.
Good luck.
hi all. sorry to be such a noob but i bought a dual boot ultrabook. something went haywire with the unit and now i cannot get to windows and i cannot get to android. all i get is stuck in efi shell 2.40. i have tried to tinker with many setting inside the efi shell to no avail. i made a media creation tool version of windows 10 on usb to try to install but it says the partition is too small at 7.2gb. i tried to repair/restore/fix the os using that tool to no avail.
not sure what to do. do i have a brick basically?
if there is any direction you can provide me i would greatly appreciate it.
thanks