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    Windows 8 legacy and GTX 980m

    Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by Rengsey R. H. Jr., Apr 8, 2016.

  1. Rengsey R. H. Jr.

    Rengsey R. H. Jr. I Never Slept

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    Is it possible to run GTX 980m in Windows 8 legacy mode? I'm not sure myself. Just wants to know.
     
    Rengsey R. H. Jr., Apr 8, 2016
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    Of course it can!

    If you have a big enough hard drive, I would recommend triple booting 7,8, and 10 so we can get proper testing done.
     
    Raidriar, Apr 8, 2016
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    That's definitely a good idea. I have the Panther and Sky X9 triple-booting 7, 8 and 10 with Legacy BIOS.
     
    Mr. Fox, Apr 9, 2016
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    Tulius Notebook Consultant

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    @Mr. Fox
    I just buy a 1Tb M-Sata for my M18X-R2 and I want to do the same, do a triple boot with W10, W8.1 and W7. I did three partitions and started using Alienware's win7 dvd and just encounter a error, couldn't install W7 on a GPT disk but I dont think is a good idea install W10 on a MBR disk either. What's the easiest route to do this?
     
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    Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 all work beautifully with MBR disks. There is no reason to avoid MBR unless the partition count limit or 3TB volume size limit for MBR is an issue. My personal preference is MBR. It doesn't have any of the stupids behaviors (like drives becoming invisible to the BIOS and OS) that GPT can have.
     
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