Dual booting PC for Windows 7 and Windows 8

Dual booting PC for Windows 7 and Windows 8

After looking into the new Windows 8 preview and Visual Studio 2012 RC, we have found the following links to help you dual boot your existing PC to run both Windows 7 & 8.

First of all read the following link which gives you the definitive guide to re-partitioning your existing hard drive, downloading and installing Windows 8.

http://blog.laptopmag.com/how-to-dual-boot-windows-8-while-keeping-windows-7-as-your-default-os

We found a few glitches during the installation above, the following changes worked in our instance.


1) Ensure that you download the Windows 8 software using explorer, some other major browsers caused complications during download.  e.g. limiting the download to 2Gb when the file is in excess of 3Gb.

Download Link : http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso

** make sure you note the Product Key....



2) We had trouble using Microsoft’s USB/DVD Download tool instead we opted to use Img Burn to create a bootable DVD to install.  

Download Link : http://www.imgburn.com/


Enjoy:)

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