Tuesday, September 20, 2011

How To Dual Boot Windows 8 With Windows 7

In my earlier article about Windows 8, I have told you how to make Windows 8 bootable USB flash drive. Most of the Windows desktop operating system users want to install Windows 8 on dual boot with Windows 7 but unsure of the way to do it, they can look at the today’s tutorial on Windows 8 in which I am going to tell you how to dual boot Windows 8 with Windows 7. Just follow the following simple steps:
1 – Download Microsoft Windows 8 Developer Preview.
2 – Set up a separate new partition of about 20 GB for Windows 8. You can create a new partition in Windows 7 by using Windows Disk Management. If you don’t know how to do it, then you can visit Microsoft Website for a small tutorial.
How To Dual Boot Windows 8 With Windows 7
3 – After downloading of Windows 8 Developer Preview finished, make a Windows 8 bootable USB flash drive or burn Windows 8 ISO file on a DVD by using Microsoft’s Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool.
4 – Then plug-in your Windows 8 bootable USB drive in USB port or insert Windows 8 bootable DVD into DVD drive and Reboot your PC.
5 – Then go to Boot Menu, select your bootable disk and install Windows 8 into your newly created partition for Windows 8.
6 – After installation finished, select the Windows 8 Developer Preview or Windows 7 at Windows Startup which you want to boot.
How To Dual Boot Windows 8 With Windows 7

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