Warning -- Release Preview + T60p = Fail

General warning to those thinking about trying Windows 8, release preview, on a T60p. Not sure what they did with release preview, but it's simply awful. It doesn't recognize nearly any of the drivers for T60p hardware -- most notably the display adapter for the ATi FireGL V5250. Not only is the display resolution atrocious, but it's very, very slow: the mouse skips across the screen as if moving the mouse is a difficult task.
It should be noted that I installed the release preview onto my installation of Windows 8 "consumer preview" which I had previously installed months before. The earlier Windows 8 consumer preview actually worked quite well on the T60p, recognized the Windows 7 drivers I had for my hardware, and even permitted me to use all of my old programs that I was using in Windows 7.
After installing release preview onto my consumer preview, I simply could no longer use my system. After about a day of trying to troubleshoot all the driver problems, I decided to install Ubuntu 12.04, which began working flawlessly (driver-wise). However, because of some compatibility issues at work, my T60p is now back to running Windows XP.
ThinkPad T60p Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 1x100GB HDD
ThinkStation S20 Xeon-W3670, 12GB RAM, 1x500GB HDD, 1x1TB HDD
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It seems that some people are getting the Vista driver to work with the Windows 8 preview.
Lenovo won't provide support for Windows 8 until it's official release.
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TM2 unable to restore Windows 7 after Windows 8 Release Preview - have restore DVDs, still fails.

Hello! I've pretty much run out of idea's on how to troubleshoot this so I'll do a summary of what I changed with the machine and then troubleshooting details further on. The particular hp touchsmart notebook I have is a TM2 1079cl, Product Number: WA812UA#ABA. I've only had it for the length of 2012, I purchased it used from another person about 1 year ago now specifically to toy with Windows 8 before it's release. As far as the hardwares actual age I can tell from the warrenty information that it was manufactured in late 2009, it states the warranty period was from January 2010 to Jan 2011.
Alright, so my history with the OS changes goes:
-> Purchased this TM2 in early 2012, ran the recovery partition to wipe it clean of the previous owners use and it ran through installation perfectly fine, then on a clean Windows 7 as if it were new. I'd also made use of a bootable Acronis True Image 2010 disk to make a hard disk image of the three other partitions for recovery (though I did not include the freshly installed windows 7 partition, figured it wouldn't matter if recovery could do it's thing right?)
-> Some days later I loaded the second of the three preview releases for Windows 8 onto it (Customer Preview build I believe).   All worked fine and it dual booted between the two without issue, afaik the only real changes it made amounted to converting the primary partition Windows 7 was installed on to an extended partition and splitting the existing Windows 7 partition equally 50/50 inside that extended partition. It had also overriden the boot manager / bootloader that was there before but again not surprised.
-> When Release Preview build came out over summer I did an update from inside windows 8 and all seemed fine still. The change between the two preview builds did develop an issue where I couldn't shut windows 8 down without a handful of error boxes poping up but I'm pretty sure that was unrelated.
-> More recently about thanksgiving time I decided to give the laptop to a family member with a archiac desktop that's got issues and general old factor that makes it not worth updating.   This person is pretty adverse to change so that whole "Win8-vs-what people are used to" thing comes into play.   I decided to wipe the TM2 clean back to the OS it shipped with.    Here's where I'm now stuck:
=> Before doing anything I made another True Image of the HDD as a just incase, glad I did.
=> Tried F11 to load the recovery partition only to find that because of the bootloader being tampered with by Windows 8 it doesn't actually go to the HP recovery partition anymore despite still being on the hard drive.
=> Grabbed the hard disk image from the beginning of the year with the recovery partition on it before windows 8 touched the machine, wiped the hdd completely clean, restored the disk image.   I could now get into HP recovery fine but....
=> I got a dialog error right off the bat saying that the recovery partition could not install and instructing me to insert disc 1 of the recovery software. Well I never made the dvd's myself with the one-time use burning feature when it worked so that's out and I had not bought the discs from HP's support site.   At this point I'm puzzled though why the recovery partition can't install despite the computer loading up into recovery just fine. For example command prompt in the Windows PE environment is functional and all files seem to be present. Maybe some verification that the recovery partition isn't pirated might have been triggered by hard disk imaging, i'm really not sure?
=> I then made used of the HDD image I'd just created before trying this and restored the other copy of the drive (Win8 tampered bootloader, Win8 release preview, win7, the inaccessible recovery partition and all).   Windows 7 and 8-RP could still boot.   Googled around a bit about the recovery partition key (F11) getting messed up by Windows 8 and came to find I only needed to set recovery as the "Active" partition to get it to start. Sure enough that got it to start but I'm running into the same issue where the actual recovery partition loads up but now refuses to begin the restore process without HP dvd's. Since I know for certain this worked months ago I guess once again since I ended up restoring that version of the recovery partition it may have also declared itself tampered with... great.
=> Contemplated what to do for a bit and then finally just ordered the DVD's from HP in December, I specifically got the recovery DVD's for my model and they did come from HP directly, not second hand from ebay or another person. Wasn't really that bad, $16, very reasonable price. Should be set right, legit OEM DVD's to use? Nope....
=> The DVD's came. Two discs for main recovery and a third for applications and drivers.   Boot off disc one and it states it's formatting the drive how it wants (good, i'm liking this so far), copies all of the contents of the three discs to the hdd and begins it's reboot and install cycle.    Reboots a handful of times, you can tell it gets well past copying the contents of any of the discs and into installing windows. You see the Windows 7 boot logo a few times and even the standard "preparing your things" background that's similar to the Windows 7 login screen. The screen definitely gets as far as installing the proper graphics driver (and others I assume at that time) as the resolution changes to native for the TM2's LCD near the end.
=> Suddenly on the 3rd or 4th (I think) reboot of installing windows it starts for a moment then says shutting down, it reboots and it's back in the windows PE environment of recovery setup again (this time coming from the hard drive, not the DVDs) and says it's failed to restore and offers to start everything over from the very beginning.
That's where I'm stuck. The Recovery Partition died on me post-Windows 8 and the offical HP recovery DVD's are failing me (and oddly they're failing me seemingly in the very last steps of windows 7 restore, well after the DVD's themselves are no longer being read from).
>> Question 1: Does the HP recovery partition "self destruct" if it gets imaged by hard drive imaging software and restored? I can confirm mine worked fine once and then dead after going through Acronis True Image. Another possibility is maybe there's some ID's or tattooing of the hard drive or specific partitions that was lost when Windows 8 put it's newer bootloader into the machine or lost from Acronis? This is still the oem hdd that came with the computer, it has not been switched out.
>> Question 2: Are there any known problems with the official Windows 7 recovery DVD's for a late 2009 TM2 1079cl? I'm also aware of the Cyberlink recovery software patch / pre-install disc and tried this with results that were no different to without it. That said my machine does have the Cyberlink version of the recovery software, I read there's something like 3 different companies software for recovery depending on time period the laptop was made and sold.
Reference: [ http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?cc=us&lc=en&softwareitem=pv-80183-1 ]
>> Question 3: Plainly put, what now? Anything else to try or do I need to go find an RTM windows 7 disc and scrounge all the driver zips together? (Very much hoping to avoid that, I'm actually pretty curious to really understand what happened here and while that'll work it would answer nothing. hehe).
Maybe related things as well: Some searches led me to believe having the WLAN switch off at the start of recovery causes driver installation to flip out (and indeed win7 seems to drop dead during the last steps of driver install) however it's not possible it would seem to turn the WLAN card "on" before this point. Switch won't bring it to enabled state anyways.   As I mentioned above the Cyberlink recovery software patch has no effect on things.   No parts have ever been changed in this machine, original hdd, wlan card, ram modules, ect.   I doubt the motherboard bios / firmware has ever been updated, machine states it's revision F.02.
I have at my disposal:
* A lot of time, actually, hense why I really want to know what happened and not use the Win7 RTM disc.
* hdd image of HP recovery before Win8 touched the machine.
* hdd image of recovery after Win8 and a kinda buggy but still bootable Win8-RP.
* The correct HP-made recovery DVD's for my laptop, ordered recently (December 2012).
* Confident enough to toy with partition editing tools should it be a suggestion, never really used much outside of gparted on linux live discs however. Considering the current state of the machine there's nothing to risk losing anymore though.
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I have the tm2 and have not experience an issue with the recovery and wifi being off, but it certainly is in the realm of possibility. I just had not encountered it on my own tm2, so I subconsciously dismissed it or just didn't think of it as a result.
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Unable to install Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 8 Release Preview on RTM 8 Enterprise

Unable to install Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 8 Release Preview on RTM 8 Enterprise
Standalone installer available here
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=28972
fails with error code 0x80004005
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Found the solution here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w8itprogeneral/thread/6d8745e0-c4c1-463a-b4bb-09f6c9c22527
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Windows 8 Release Preview on Mac Mini mid 2011

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I've finally got it installed on my HP Touchsmart 610-1000t (or whatever the number is).....
Apparently it's a graphics card/driver issue.
I downloaded the enterprise final release and it did the same thing to me (black screen etc etc).
In the end, I highly doubt some of these models are compatible with windows 8 if the final release is giving me the same problem. The only difference is- now the sleep button worked, so I fiddled around with it until I got it fully installed (user created). After doing so, I booted into Safe mode and disabled the graphics driver/restarted and it booted up fine/works fine. Every now and then it crashes on IE10. I wasn't able to test the touch capabilities during the releases between developer and final, so it wasn't until now I can finally test the functionarlity of ALL the gesture functionality. I can say, the combination of the touch screen desktop and short cut keys makes everything so much quicker and easier. I perfer windows 8 over windows 7 on my touchscreen, finally the touchscreen experience is much better! Of course I still use my keyboard and mouse. The touch pinning/swiping is awesome. I can't say the same for normal desktops in a corporate environment (without touchscreens).....I can say however- windows 8 tablets would be really nice in place of my Ipad or my laptop that I carry around from meeting to meeting, thus the reason I'm waiting for the Surface! CItrix and apps can only take you so far.

Welcome to the HP Windows 8 Release Preview

Welcome to the HP Windows® 8 Release Preview
Welcome to the HP Windows® 8 Release Preview discussion board. This board has been set up for consumers to discuss Windows® 8 Release Preview as it relates to their HP products.
Windows® 8 is the new operating system from Microsoft®, following the introduction of Windows 7 in 2009.
HP is working closely with Microsoft on the release of Windows 8 to bring new and exciting innovations to market for consumers and businesses alike, including devices that will build upon Windows 8. HP engineers are performing extensive testing of Windows 8 on current and recently introduced HP PCs and printers to confirm compatibility with HP products and to create any needed drivers or other materials.
As a friendly reminder:
HP does not support Windows® 8 Release Preview. Please visit www.microsoft.com regarding support for these versions.
This board has been set up to facilitate discussion of the Windows® 8 Release Preview versions. When the official operating system is released, we will archive this board and allow the discussion to migrate to the normal fully supported OS discussion boards within the Notebook PC, Desktop PC and Printing and All and One categories of the forum.
For more information, please visit the sites below:
Microsoft Answers community support:
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Internet Explorer 10 forum: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie10
Windows Store forum: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-windows_store
Other Windows 8 resources:
Windows 8 Release Preview homepage: http://windows.microsoft.com/release-preview
Windows 8 Release Preview FAQ: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=240148
Windows Store for Developers Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsstore/
Windows Team Blog: http://windowsteamblog.com/
Building Windows 8 MSDN Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/
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OK, just tested this on my HP Touchsmart 520-1030 with Windows 8 Pro RTM and got the driver to install using the following steps...
1. Download the "NextWindow Voltron Touch Screen Driver" from here
2. Run the sp54627.exe driver download package (but don't select "Proceed with the update?" when prompted)
3. Go to the temp extract folder location (e.g. under c:\users\username\appdat\local\temp\xxxxx.tmp)
4. Go to the "src" folder, right click on "NextWindowInstall.inf", and select install
6. Go forth and touch away on Windows 8
Regards,
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Photoshop CS gives me an error under Windows 8 Release Preview

I'm getting an error when I try to update Photoshop CS. I'm using Windows 8 Release Preview. As soon as AAM starts, it gives me an unspecified error.
I have follwed all the advice given above. Nothing seems to fix it.
Pieter.

Yes ok so apparently you are attempting to utilize Photoshop CS6 then? At present we have not released a specific update for Photoshop itself. You can locate the product update page itself at http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/. You can then select the product you are looking to update from there.
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Windows 8 May 31 Release Preview successfully installed in Bootcamp

I installed the May 31 final preview release of Windows 8 yesterday on an early 2011 MacBook Pro with an existing Bootcamp Windows partition. I burned an ISO image of the 64 bit OS to DVD http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/release-preview and then used it for the install. The install went smoothly, however you need to be alert to several (about 5) auto restarts so you can choose Windows boot each time. The install DVD shows up in the Boot Choices but always choose the Windows Bootcamp partition on restarts and not the DVD after the initial Windows 8 Setup starts to run. The most important thing to note is that the install preserves NOTHING except existing folders and data files, so you have to reinstall all programs. As far as I can tell I can't restore an old Windows backup (maybe you could use a Win 8 Consumer Preview backup if you already have that loaded). I then installed the Bootcamp Drivers (V4). It all works pretty smoothly, a few beta bugs and some incompatible features, but with some patience and minimal work arounds it is very usable with the trackpad.
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CP would from time to time show the graphic driver crashed and restarted itself.
Some web sites won't work IE10 w/o adding to Compatibility List.
there are times when IE will get stuck for me..I'm still looking why or find background process.
Chrome beta channel seems fine.
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And they need time to look at the new build I suppose to get their driver.
Even Intel has not issued much though there is a Intel RST Beta for 8 (for those on non-Apple motherboards with Intel SATA)

Should I download windows 7 or windows 8 release preview using parallels, should I download windows 7 or windows 8 release preview using parallels

I downloaded parallels and was given the option to download windows 7 or window 8 release preview. I have heard of people runing thier macs by downloading the release preview, but don't have a liscense of windows 7. If I buy windows 7 i will have to pay to upgrade to windows 8, but if I download the release preview I will be unable to use it after September 26 whan Microsoft releases windows 8. Then I will have to pay full price for windows 8. I want to know which is better to do because I need it for school next week.

Bnoggle wrote:
I want to know which is better to do because I need it for school next week.
Buy Windows 7 retail disk and use the 64bit disk to install into Parallels. This verison of Windows is well supported an there is lots of software your school is likely using it on.
Windows 8 is still in beta stage, not ready for everyone to use yet. However you CAN download the devlopers preview issue also to play around with.
http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/03/try-windows-8-consumer-preview-virtualbox/
WIth Virtual Machine software you can install many other operating systems and use any (or many depening how much RAM and storage space you have) at the same time.
So you can use Windows 7 and your schools software, and then quit that and play around with Windows 8, or Linux verisons too.
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Has anyone tested Windows 8 Release Preview on Bootcamp?

Hi,
I'm just curious if anyone has any feedback on how a retina MacBook Pro performs whit Windows 8 Release Preview installed via bootcamp?
Cheers

I managed to install and get it working, all drivers work fine. It looks beautiful on the retina display, I set the resolution to 2880x1800 then went into display settings and and set everything to larger (200% zoom) which is effectively what OSX does (HiDPi), it was basically running with the same real estate as 1440x900, everything was so sharp.
The only issue I found was tap to click not working, you have to set up another account, standard NOT admin, for some reason an admin account can't get access to the bootcamp control tab to change the setting. I'm not sure at which end this has been disabled (Windows or Apple) but that is the only bug/issue.
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Install Windows 8 Release Preview on imac

any body install Windows 8 Release Preview on imac?

Q: Do you have the CP installed now?
If yes, then the Setup program will walk you through and download, move Windows to Windows.old (so you need about 40GB free space at least to accomplish, an 80GB partition) and no need to burn ISO (handy to have).
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Windows 8 release preview on hp touchsmart 600 1135uk

Hi just a simple question, has anyone managed to install win 8 release preview on touchsmart 600 1135uk? i had the consumer preview installed and working alright, i did clean install of the release preview and i cant see anything after installation, i don't know if its due the graphics, has any one manage it and if yes how did you do it?
all i have got now is blank/black screen, i can see the activity light active but thats all i can see. any help will be very much appreciated.

I've finally got it installed on my HP Touchsmart 610-1000t (or whatever the number is).....
Apparently it's a graphics card/driver issue.
I downloaded the enterprise final release and it did the same thing to me (black screen etc etc).
In the end, I highly doubt some of these models are compatible with windows 8 if the final release is giving me the same problem. The only difference is- now the sleep button worked, so I fiddled around with it until I got it fully installed (user created). After doing so, I booted into Safe mode and disabled the graphics driver/restarted and it booted up fine/works fine. Every now and then it crashes on IE10. I wasn't able to test the touch capabilities during the releases between developer and final, so it wasn't until now I can finally test the functionarlity of ALL the gesture functionality. I can say, the combination of the touch screen desktop and short cut keys makes everything so much quicker and easier. I perfer windows 8 over windows 7 on my touchscreen, finally the touchscreen experience is much better! Of course I still use my keyboard and mouse. The touch pinning/swiping is awesome. I can't say the same for normal desktops in a corporate environment (without touchscreens).....I can say however- windows 8 tablets would be really nice in place of my Ipad or my laptop that I carry around from meeting to meeting, thus the reason I'm waiting for the Surface! CItrix and apps can only take you so far.

Windows 8 Release Preview/Photoshop CS6 Licensing issue

I bought and installed Photoshop CS6 on Windows Consumer Preview and it worked flawlessly. I then installed Windows 8 Release Preview. This had to be a clean install. I didn't know I had to deactivate Photoshop before doing the clean install. Installed without a problem. Now when I try and run CS6 it says that the license has expired. I have done all the web and Adobe support told me to do but still has the same issue. Other than waht this article says: http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/error-licensing-product-expired-cs4.html Adobe support isn't interested in helping.
Can anybody help?

I do know there's at least one person on this forum who is using Windows 8 (Kelly is I believe his name) and has gotten Photoshop activated properly.
I've been testing Windows 8 for the past several days (in virtual machines). Microsoft has actually made it worse to use in the release version. They've completely removed Aero Glass, for example, so now everything just looks flat and lifeless. I've written a book that describes how to configure and augment the OS so as to get work done with it. But I'm not sure people are going to want to upgrade to it wiith it looking this bad!
Have you tried removing Photoshop CS6 and using the Creative Suite Removal Tool to clean remnants of it up, then reinstalling? I'm sure the telephone support people would have suggested that; I'm just confirming.
Only thing I can imagine is that Windows 8's UAC system is somehow getting in the way of Photoshop retaining its activation data. It's no longer possible, using the Windows 8 UI, to completely disable UAC, though it is still possible to do it through registry manipulation (something best done by power users and system gurus). If one does apps will no longer run in the "UI formerly known as Metro" - which suits me fine, but may not be good for most folks.
Have you tried running the installer As Administrator?
-Noel

Windows 8 Release Preview scanning programme and driver

I have lost my scanning functionality on my printer (HP Deskjet 3070a Printer) after installing the Windows 8 Release Preview.
I Love the OS, but hate that I can't scan.
I want scanning programme and driver. Any suggestions?

Until Windows 8 releases the only driver for your printer will be an in-OS driver. In most cases you can scan but it must be usb only. So if want to scan connect via usb until the Windows 8 releases.
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Hi,
Uninstall the current driver for the Synaptics TouchPad and restart the system.
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Uninstall or change a program in Windows 7
Install the latest Synaptics TouchPad driver from here (ver 16.0.1.0).
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Printer Driver Support for Computers Running Windows 8 Release Preview

Printer driver support for computers running Windows 8 Release Preview
HP is working to help customers have the best experience with HP printers connected to PCs running the final release of Windows 8. The pre-release time is a development period when HP develops and tests printer driver solutions. HP’s current plan is for Windows 8 compatible printers to be available when the new operating system is released to the public. HP is working with Microsoft to include drivers in the Windows 8 operating system for HP printers introduced in recent years.
There may be a variety of sources for a printer driver/solution for your HP printer on a computer running Windows 8 Release Preview.
inOS:
An in-Operating System (inOS) driver is a basic driver that is included within the operating system. You do not need to download or install any software from HP. Windows 8 Relase Preview contains several inOS drivers. If an inOS driver is available for your printer, you will have at least basic print capability with USB and Network and basic scan capability with USB only (if your printer supports scanning).
Windows Update:
There might be a more functional or more up-to-date driver available for your printer through Microsoft Windows Update. If Windows Update is enabled, then the Windows Update process activates automatically when you connect (USB and Network connections) the printer to the computer. It searches online for the most recent print driver on the Windows Update site. If the online driver is more functional than the currently installed driver in Windows 8, the computer downloads and installs this driver.
HP Supplied Printer Driver/Solutions:
Although HP does not formally support any pre-release versions of Windows Operating Systems, including Windows 8 Release Preview, we may supply some full functionality drivers* prior to the official release of Windows 8. These drivers may be supplied as a courtesy to our valued HP customers through this Support Forum, though no formal support will be available otherwise. We welcome feedback within these support forums. Please check back for further updates as the official release of Windows 8 approaches.
* Full feature drivers provide full product functionality, plus valuable software to help you get the most out of your printer.

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Check out the following thread.
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