In the desktop that I'm getting soon I stupidly forgot to include a optical disk drive. So I was wondering if I could temporarily use the hard drive I ordered for the desktop on my laptop in order to install windows 8 onto it.
yes, it installls drivers specifically for the machine you are installing it too, i highly doubt it would work from a laptop to a desktop. possibly if you install win 8 on a desktop similar to yours and swap, then it SHOULD, not definite, but should work
Well my original plans were to use my laptop as a medium for installing windows onto the hard drive for my desktop coming in, but that got shut down. So now I'm open for any suggestions that could work, I'm looking towards installing it using a USB drive now, but I've got to figure out how to get it from the disk to the USB drive first.
Right. USB stick or DVD.
How many gb should the USB be in order to install windows 8 64-bit?
Well my original plans were to use my laptop as a medium for installing windows onto the hard drive for my desktop coming in, but that got shut down. So now I'm open for any suggestions that could work, I'm looking towards installing it using a USB drive now, but I've got to figure out how to get it from the disk to the USB drive first.
Right. USB stick or DVD.
How many gb should the USB be in order to install windows 8 64-bit?
4GB or larger
Only 4GB? I expected larger. Do you know how I would go about transferring the data from the DVD to the flash drive?