Installing windows 8 dual boot

I downloaded and installed Windows 8, expecting it to complain about only 1 gig of RAM, and by today's standards, a rather slow computer. That didn't bother it - an hour or so later, the computer was up and running good start!

On one of my re-boots, I noticed it now had two installations of Windows, Win-8 and the old Win Not bad - I thought everything would be over-written with a new copy of Win Or is this something that we'll have to wait for the final release for? I am guessing that since Windows 8 is able to keep settings and programs, it will over-write whichever OS is being used to install Win-8 from. Nothing urgent here, but it would be nice if the installation program explained this ahead of time If you simply download the Windows 8 CP installation file and start the install, whatever version of Windows that it is being started in will be upgraded to Windows 8.

Creating a Dual Boot Installation is a completely different process. If you want to create a Dual Boot installation, you will need to create a new primary partition, Download the.

See the following thread for a good step by step tutorial on installing Windows 8 as a dual boot with your current version of Windows.

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The commission help keep the rest of my content free, so thank you! I like the new Boot Manager as you can change it easily without having to edit a system file, etc. I will give this a try in the future. So, I also tried to use different boot disk creators like UNetBootin to no avail. Does this mean I cannot make a bootable usb using a 32 bit vista system?

Thanks Tuan. So then I tried rebuilding the ISO with Imgburn, which caught on that I was making an ISO for an operating system, and it went all microsoft-word-paperclip on me and configured everything for me. Then I restarted and it worked.

Although in retrospect I probably could have used the microsoft download tool, and then switch the bootsect. You think that would have worked?

I tried to install Windows 8 as mentioned in the article, but I faced some problems. Could anyone help me, please? After testing windows 8, how is it possible to remove it properly from the second partition and remove all the mbr options?

Thank you very much.