Win8 installation tutorial

Windows8 Developer Preview is finally released! Want to know how to download Win8 How to install Win8? Is there a Win8 installation tutorial? If you want to experience the charm of Win8, then download it now! However, Win8 installation is not an easy Live, first of all to determine whether the computer can support Win8 (can install Win7 can install Win8).

If you want to install on a virtual machine, it is a pity that most of the virtual machines used on the Windows platform cannot be installed (anyway, several colleagues around the author failed to install on the virtual machine) The other one is even more speechless. A friend successfully installed Win8 with a virtual machine on the Linux platform.

Nonsense is not much to say, the following will introduce the two installation methods of Win8!

Download the system requirements of Win8 and Win8

No matter which kind of installation method, first of all Download the system image of Win8. Users can directly click on the download link below to enter the Win8 download home page. Here, I recommend downloading 2.8G Windows 8 Developer Preview English (32-bit) first.

Before installing Win8, first understand the system requirements of Windows 8:

Windows 8 Developer Preview works great on the same hardware that powers Windows Vista and Windows 7 (Win8 system requirements with Win7 Same as Vista)

#1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor (1G or higher CPU)

# 1 GB RAM (32 -bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit) (minimum 1G memory, 2G or more recommended)

# 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit) (system Disk above 16G)

# DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver (Direct 9 or higher graphics card)

# Taking advantage of touch input requires a screen that supports multi-touch ( If you want to use the touch function, you need a display that supports touch.)

The first method of installing Win8 is installed directly in Win7!

Installing Win8 directly in Win7 is the easiest way. . In a word, use the decompression tool (fast press, WinRAR, etc.) to extract the Win8 iso image file to a non-system disk (C drive), and then double-click "Setup".

In order to let everyone know the whole process of Win8 installation, the picture will be a bit more.

Figure 1 After double-clicking “Setup”, you will see this pop-up window

Figure 2 shows the preparation

Figure 3 Ask if you need to install the latest patch quality online. (Choose No Thanks)

Figure 4 Preparing ……Slightly