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A Step by Step guide on how to install windows 8 on your computer.Follow our Article where images are included for better understanding.

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Tips For Clean Installation Of Windows 8

Microsoft introduced Windows 8 by adding numerous changes in the user interface and additionally in features. It is not difficult to install Windows 8 on your computer. Nevertheless, before the installation, you have to verify that your system is good to run all the features of Windows 8. Actually, given beneath are some simple tips that will help you to install Windows 8 without any problems.

Tips

Before the installation of Windows 8, you have to move down all the files and folders that exist in the past operating system. This is because of; when you are installing Windows 8, all the past data will be erased from your computer, hence, go down all your files to any outer hard disk or to a cloud.

Once you have went down all your files and folders, open the CD drive of your computer and addition the installation DVD for Windows 8. If the installation file is saved in your USB drive, then you have to use this USB drive for the Windows 8 installation. After that, restart your computer.

When you see the Windows 8 flash screen, you can guarantee that your PC is starting the Windows 8 set up methodology accurately.

Next, you will be approached few questions for which you may answer in like manner. These are not any specialized questions so you simply need to answer them in the simplest way.

Now, Windows will request that you enter the product key for the Windows 8 OS that you are installing. Search for the product enter in the affirmation email that you got when you downloaded Windows 8. The product key will be displayed on your device if you have a computer preinstalled with Windows 8.

Now, acknowledge the terms and conditions.

Now, you will be given two options called Upgrade Install and Custom Install. Picking the Custom Install option will give better performance and will keep all your files and programs set up.

To access the assistant partitions, click on Drive Options (advanced).

If you have to erase any data from a drive, you have to choose those drives and you won't have the capacity to recover this data once you affirm these actions.

Now, you have to pick the area where the Windows 8 installation is to be carried out. In the wake of selecting it, click the Next button.

This will start the installation of Windows 8 on your computer and once it is finished, restart it.

These tips from the Microsoft support team will help you to do a clean installation of Windows 8 OS. For additional information on the best way to install Windows 8, contact our technical support team. 

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Install Windows 8 on your PC in 5 easy steps

The electronic market is abuzz with the news of Windows 8, its features, improvements over Windows 7 and its advantages for a desktop as well as a tablet user. Users are tempted to get a feel of its features and benefits. The final version of Windows 8 is slated to be launched in late 2012 but this does not mean that you can’t experience the features and look of the new operating system from Microsoft.

As Microsoft has introduced the Release Preview of the software before its final launch so users like you can install it on your computer and use it as an optional OS apart from the main OS on which your system is  presently running. This article will let you know about the steps with which you can install the OS on your system.

System Requirement:

You can install Windows 8 on any PC that is presently running on Windows 7 with the following minimum configuration.

Processor: 1GHz

RAM : 1 GB

Available hard disk space : 16 GB

64 bit OS : 2GB of RAM and 20 GB hard disk space

Graphics hardware that can run DirectX 9.

How to install Windows 8?

Below mentioned is step-by-step guideline for installing Windows 8 on your PC:

Things you require

First of all you need to ensure that your system configuration supports the Windows 8 OS. Also check the system requirement viz- RAM, Processor, storage. Before you start the process, make sure you are available with active Internet connection, Windows 7, one blank DVD and one DVD writer.

1. Partition the hard drive

As you are not going to use Windows 8 as your main OS so you are advised to install the new software on a separate segment of your hard drive. This helps you keep the present OS running along with Windows 8. To make the partition follow the steps mentioned below.

Go to ‘Start’ menu and right click on ‘My computer’ to select ‘Manage’

Now Computer Management System will be opened before you from where you can choose the hard drive that you want to partition

Go to the sidebar menu appearing at the left and then ‘Storage category’ and then you need to click on ‘Disk management’

Now you will get different hard drives in a list and need to right-click on the hard drive you need to partition and then select ‘Shrink Volume’

In the next step you need to select the amount of space that you want to shrink and then click on ‘Shrink’ again

With this hard drive will get partitioned and the new partition will appear as ‘unallocated’

Windows 8 will be placed in this unallocated drive whereas the existing OS will remain on its existing place.

2. Burn Windows 8 DVD

Now you have to download Windows 8 from Microsoft’s site as an image file. While downloading the file you have to select the language and the PC architecture. In case you don’t know your PC’s architecture then choose x86.

It is now ready to burn the Windows 8 DVD. Insert a blank DVD that you had kept initially into the DVD drive and navigate to the folder where you have saved the downloaded image file. Right-click on the downloaded image file and select ‘Burn disc image.’ Finally click ‘Burn’ after checking the “Verify disc after burning” option.

3. Boot from the disc

Start the installation by booting the PC from the disc. For that you need to check if the disc ‘burnt’ with the Windows 8 is inserted into the DVD drive. If it is there then it is OK to start booting. Normally it takes few seconds after the normal PC boot up before the OS gets loaded. In the intermittent period you get a glimpse of a black screen with certain texts. You can interrupt the booting through that black screen and make the PC boot through the disc.

Once the DVD is ready, you will need to boot from the disc to start the installation. First of all, make sure to put the disc burned with the Windows 8 image into your computer drive. When a PC boots up, the operating system generally takes charge after a few seconds and starts loading itself. This means you have a few seconds before it starts to load, during which a text-based screen with a black background will appear. Here you can interrupt the normal boot-up process to make the PC boot from the disc.

Sometimes you need to press a particular key to obstruct the normal booting process and select the disc booting before the Windows gets loaded. These keys vary from F9-F12 that depends upon the vendor like HP, Lenovo, Dell, Acer etc.

The installation of Windows 8 begins only when your PC boots up with the disc. Here you need to select your preferred language, click ‘Install now,’ enter the product key and then again click ‘Next.’ You are also advised to check the ‘I agree’ box that is about the Microsoft license terms and policy. As you intend to run Windows 8 as an option OS thus you are recommended to select the custom install option.

4. Select the Destination hard drive space

Here comes the most important step. You have to select the partition that you created to store the Windows 8 OS. You are advised to be extra careful and not to choose the hard drive partition where your present OS is located as that will create a huge problem.

5. Install the OS

Preparation steps are now over and the actual installation of the OS has to begin.  After the installation gets over your PC will reboot itself to apply the changes completely. Here onwards you will be having two OS on your system and you will be provided option to choose either of them when you restart your PC. You can also choose the particular OS that would be your default operating system.

This is the way by which you can side-by-side install Windows 8 OS on your system. Remember, this is optional software which you have installed to check its features and interface. Your PC will be usually running on the existing Windows 7.