Installing Windows 8 without an optical drive
Finally managed to get Windows 8 installed on a laptop without a optical disc drive. This was a Lenovo ideapad S405 which came pre installed with Windows 8, but since I was more inclined to use Linux on it, I had somehow managed to get Ubuntu installed on it. Now, I'm usually a Fedora guy, but for some reason the driver for the mouse/touchpad which comes compiled into the kernel was less stable in the version of Fedora that I was using, hence the brief switch to Ubuntu. Now when I had to give the laptop away to someone who's going to use Windows most of their time, I had to make sure that I could install Windows back onto it. I must say, that in spite of being warned by the salesman at the store to maintain a backup of Windows 8 if I was to wipe out Windows form the laptop; I did not follow his advice. I started off obtaining the iso for Windows 8, which could then be restored onto a USB drive with at least 4GB of storage capacity. When I tried directly restoring the iso image...