Can this board dual boot? I have one of these and I want to have SteamOS and Windows 7 on separate drives on my PC.
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It's my understanding you can dual boot with any board. I've done Ubuntu/Windows dual boots on pretty much every PC I've owned. I think dual booting is performed by software installed on your hard drive, not anything specific to particular boards, but I am not an expert. If you have an AMD video card or use a wireless network adapter, you might want to look into whether or not they have driver support under SteamOS. You could always just give it a shot and see what happens. Make sure you back up all your data and good luck!
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I have build four systems for clients using this board without any issues. As always make sure you have the lastest BIOS before installing OS.
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You could by a license for Windows 7, reformat the primary drive, and then install the OS. Windows 8 is just another Vista in my opinion.
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BIOS must support boot from USB device.Important to note: If Windows OS, you may run into HAL or MBR problems if the hardware is significantly different.
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Sure, but if you already have this machine, you might trying setting up a Win8 VM on it. That would allow you to keep your installation reasonably virgin, and minimize the risks of changing the OS and bungling it all up.
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That should not be a problem where the hardware is concerned. However, keep in mind your partitioning scheme. You will want to do a GPT partition table (as opposed to MSDOS partition table) with any partitions over 2TB. How you go about that will depend on the OS that you are using.
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As far as I know (somebody can correct me if i'm wrong) The motherboard can have any operating system you want it to have. That is just a program you install on to your computer. If you really wanted to, you could install windows 98.
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Yes, you can install windows through USB on this motherboard. That's how I installed windows 7. Also yes, the bios is a UEFI. It doesn't have any overclocking options, however.
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Yes, you can either load Windows 8 on it or use it as a second drive in a Windows 8 system, as the drive uses standard device drivers. A more important issue is whether your motherboard will support getting the best speed out of the drive, and you'll have to see from the motherboard manual or the manufacturer whether it supports a solid state drive in the BIOS.
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yes you can. Setting up the dual boot is a solidly intermediate nerd process and you should be prepared to spend a full weekend at it, even having to restart the process 1/2 way through if you screw up, potentially even more than once. If you don't think you would find this process both frustrating AND enjoyable (and simply frustrating) do not do it, you will be sorry. You will need to spend and some preparation time downloading software and getting either an external cd drive setup of ripping cds to usb sticks. I get my aspire one next week and will be be setting up the same dual boot system after adding a gig of ram, a new wifi card, a bigger drive and a touch screen. Here's the best resource I've found, although I hope to find a much better one. http://leonuys.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/making-my-acer-aspire-one-dual-boot/
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If you're using a 'boot device selectable' bios like on most @sus boards then it does just fine. Stick it on a 'bought' PC you would have to experiment. Bit it's a very cheap gamble as price is fantastic.
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BIOS. Yes you can run linux on it easily. Now if you went with windows 8 or 8.1 it'll be a bit tricky.
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Its more of a mother board thing than OS, If you have a spare USB spot there...windows will recognize it.
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i have BOTH win 7 & ubuntu linux on my pc & its compatible with both of those operating systems..
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yes, you can if you choose. you'd just have to set the boot order correctly in the BIOS
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The OS on this unit is actually going to be Win7 PRO 64bit. Please let us know if you have any other questions.Thank You,ServerMonkey
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It comes with Linux, but by using a USB optical drive, you should be able to install Windows. I recommend trying XP SP2 or SP3. Not sure, but you may need SATA drivers for XP to work... [PirateBay has XP Pro SP3 w/ SATA drivers, if you're not above that sort of thing. ;-) ] No idea about OS X, Google "Hackintosh" for more info on that.