As Rakesh said it'd be good to be prepared beforehand by downloading the drivers so that you can use them if and when needed, there is nothing like Titanium backup for a PC if you mean by backup program where you can restore your apps and programs and document settings after installing a new OS, but if you want to image your system then I use Acronis True Image for that.
weird problem, never faced anything like this
..you can then use win 8 setup to reformat the disk before installation). This option works perfectly for the retail DVD available from flipkart. Don't know if it works for the download version.
For those of you who were extremely confused about the download version and dvd version available in stores. let me make a few clarification. 1. The version of windows DVD available on Flipkart is the retail version AND upgrade version. You get a 32 bit and 64 bit version DVD and a single product key. The Customer Support people at flipkart do not know this. They will either tell you that its a upgrade only version or put you on hold forever (like they did to me). 2. Another thing you need to know is that all versions of win 8 pro will check for previous version of windows installation during setup. If you attempt to install from a formatted disk your product key will not activate properly. A work around suggested by Microsoft's own Customer Support is a registry edit (tutorial available on the internet) Another simple workaround is to simply create an empty 'windows' folder in your formatted HDD before installing windows 8(win 8 setup will take the empty folder as a previous version of windows
How good is the native firewall and anti-virus. I am wondering if I should download a third party firewall and av. How many of you guys are using a third party security software ?
Anyway System builder versions of windows 8 pro are out in Amazon.com and are priced at ~195$ . Windows 7 system builder versions are selling at around the same price. This introductory price offer is just to hustle users into windows 8 and build a critical mass of users before the price hike.
I just rechecked and what you said is correct. The retail DVD available on flipkart is officially an 'upgrade version'. But as I have found out you can make a clean installation with the 'upgrade pack'. I have heard of instances where MS CS techs helped customers make a clean install of the OS(using the registry workaround I mentioned in my previous post) and in one case even gave them a free retail product key !.I have a feeling Microsoft is doing this on purpose to create a hype. Good to know that I can stick with the native apps. From what I read third party software including my favourite Comodo firewall seems to have compatibility issues with win 8.
