Step 1: Right Windows select Version
You have installed in your Computer only one hard disk, so you can install Windows 8 however, as a virtual System. However, this only works with Winodws 8 Pro or Windows 8 Enterprise.
Step 2: Windows 8 on storage media
You have not purchased Windows 8 on a DVD, you must download the entire operating system and place it on a DVD or a USB Stick to install. Windows 8 is already contained on a DVD, you can skip this step.
- Download the Windows 8 Setup Tool download and launch it. For Windows 8.1 you will find here also a Setup Tool.
- Select the Option to "install by creating media" and then choose whether you want to transfer about 2.5 GB large file to a USB Stick or a DVD.
- Select the USB flash drive is to copy the ISO file directly to this. Select the Option on the DVD, you must burn the ISO file itself on the DVD. This is achieved, for example, with the CDBurnerXP.
- Then start the process that will download the installation file of Windows 8 and automatically to the storage medium transmitted.
Windows 8 Setup Tool
Step 3: install Windows 8 start
- Insert the Windows 8 DVD or the self-burned disc in your Computer and restart the Computer.
- Your Computer will not boot from the CD so that the Installation starts, you need to change a setting in the BIOS. A tutorial can you find here.
- Confirm the country-, language-, and keyboard-settings with a click on "Next".
- Do not click in the next window on the Button "install Now", but press them on your keyboard at the same time on the keys "shift" and "F10". Then a black window, the command prompt will open.
Step 4: Windows 8 as a virtual System to install
Now you need to create a Partition on your hard drive in Windows 8 is to be installed. The old Windows Version is completely unaffected. After entering each command, you may have to wait a few moments until they were executed.
- Type in the black console command "diskpart" and confirm with "Enter".
- Now type "create vdisk file="c:\win8.vhd" type=expandable maximum=30000".
- Usually, the main partition of the hard drive "C", she should wear a different letter, replace it, if necessary in the command. The value for Maximum is the size of the Partition. In this case, one of those 30,000 MB is about 30 GB. This size should use at least. You want to install multiple programs in the virtual System, you should assign the Partition to a larger value.
- The Partition has now been created and can be selected with the command "select vdisk file="c:\win8.vhd". Then enter the command "attach vdisk" and then close the window.
Step 5: Installation of Windows 8 continue
- Now you can click on the Button "install Now".
- Enter your license key, accept the license terms and click "Next". The license key can be entered later.
- Here, select the Option "custom Installation". You will now see all the partitions on your Computer. Here you can select the newly created Partition, you can use the software to the size.
- Click on "Next", appears the message "Windows can not be on this drive installed". These you can ignore, however. Then the Installation of Windows 8 starts.
Step 6: Between Windows 8 and the old operating system to choose
When you start your Computer, you will now be asked which operating system you want to use. You start Windows 8 for the first Time, you need to set up the System for the time being.
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