Digital Inspiration Technology Blog: Windows 8 Installation Guides

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Windows 8 Installation Guides Mar 24th 2012, 18:22 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDYQmQ-phX8 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) This story, Windows 8 Installation Guides, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 24/03/2012 under Windows 8, Software. Related posts: Proper Installation Order for Windows Drivers Windows XP SP3 Installation without Product Key How to Install Windows 8 on a Mac using Boot Camp Read this before you Download Windows 8 Windows 7 Installation and Upgrade Guides from Microsoft Media files: windows_82-50x50.png (image/png)

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