Win8 dual system installation diagram tutorial (1)

Windows 8 consumer preview version
download Microsoft official has been released, I believe many people now want to see some of the new version of Windows8 features Let's go. But when it comes to installing Windows 8 system, you may intuitively think: Isn't that going to cut my existing Windows 7 system? If you don't want to install because of this doubt, then I will teach you a way to let Windows 7 and Windows 8 coexist in a notebook and switch between old and new systems as you wish.

Windows 8 features introduced

Windows 8 is a system can be installed on the PC and mobile devices, thus supporting ARM tablet devices, support for touch screen is the The characteristics of the system. At the same time, the Windows desktop and the new Metro UI interface are integrated. Users can not only use the familiar Windows interface, but also experience the charm of Metro UI. More importantly, Windows 8 is also tightly integrated with Microsoft's cloud service, Windows Live, and can be logged in directly from the MSN Live account.

Windows 8 Consumer Preview on February 29 issued
joined the Office 2007's Ribbon interface, users Windows8 document can be achieved more operations, but can also be displayed in the computer properties More details about performance. In addition, Windows 8 has a much higher speed than Windows 7 in terms of booting and installing, and natively supports USB 3.0, enabling high-speed data transfer using USB 3.0 devices without installing device drivers.

Windows 8 Metro UI interface support
have now released version Win8 Consumer Preview version and a previous developer preview version, which also divided some of subversion, if you are a direct installation, and hardware systems For 64-bit or 32-bit can also be installed, then you can choose to install according to your needs.
Note: If you are installing dual systems, then you must first check if the Windows 7 system installed on your computer is 64-bit or 32-bit version, if your existing system is 32-bit. If you do, then your dual system will not be able to install 64-bit Windows 8, you can only choose 32-bit to install, you must carefully check before installation.

Right-click the computer operating system to view property information
How to make Windows 8 system U disk

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Now release the Win8 system we can go to Microsoft's official website to download for free, the system's capacity is relatively large, we must wait patiently when downloading.
Put the downloaded Windows 8 disc image into the U disk, there are two ways to choose. First, you need to download the special conversion tool Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool from Microsoft's official website. This is a tool designed by Microsoft's online software store for users who purchase Winndows 7 online. It was originally designed to allow users to easily convert downloaded ISO files into bootable system disks. After testing by netizens, I found that this tool is also applicable to the ISO image of Windows 8.


use Windows 7 USB /DVD Download Tool written Win8 mirror
second is to use UltraISO software directly burn U disk mirroring, this approach more widely applicable than the first, You can burn the image of any operating system to a USB flash drive.

use UltraISO to open the image file

] before writing a new system image to make a backup of the contents of U disk