Whether you wish to install Windows 8 on your primary computer, or as a
dual-boot alongside an older version of Windows or inside a Mac, these
step-by-step guides should come handy.
I spent almost the entire day playing around with Windows 8 and finally installed it on all the three machines
that I have – two of them were previously running Windows 7 while the
third one is an iMac running Mac OS X Lion. Everything just worked
without any issues.
The first Windows machine is sort of test
machine and I therefore installed Windows 8 as the primary OS on that
machine overwriting Windows 7. All my previous files, Windows settings
and programs were preserved and it was quite an effortless installation.
The
second Windows machine is my primary computer, the one that I am using
to write this story inside Windows Live Writer, and I therefore
installed Windows 8 on another partition (dual-boot setup). Thus my
existing Windows 7 installation is not modified in any way while I can
switch to Windows 8 anytime with a simple restart.
In the case of
iMac, I created a new NTFS partition and installed Windows 8 using Boot
Camp. The metro tiles of Windows 8 on the 27” iMac look absolutely
gorgeous and the Apple keyboard and Magic Mouse also work inside Windows
8.
Finally, I installed Windows 8 as a Virtual Machine inside Windows 8 itself just for the purpose of recording the Windows 8 installation procedure.
Windows 8 Installation Guides
If
you haven’t tried Windows 8 yet, you should consider doing that now
because Windows 8 looks fresh, beautiful and definitely brings that
“wow” effect. It’s a beta version but after using it for about a day, I
found it stable though the new UI might involve a bit of learning curve.
The
best part is that setting up Windows 8 is extremely easy and the
installation procedure won’t take more than 15-20 minutes. Should you be
interested, I have written several detailed guides that will walk you
through the installation steps in either of the above scenarios – pick
one that best fits your workflow and get going.
- How to Install Windows 8 as a Virtual Machine (using Oracle’s VirtualBox)
- How to Install Windows 8 on a Mac (using Apple’s Boot Camp)
- How to Install Windows 8 alongside an older version of Windows (Dual boot)
- How to Upgrade your Computer to Windows 8 (Overwrite mode)
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