Win7 install win8 dual system tutorial

  
Recently, I recently implemented windows8 dual system in windows7 in a friend's computer. The method is simpler than installing USB8 on U disk, and I don't have to worry about which system is not good with win7+win8 dual system. , quite worth recommending, let's introduce how to install and uninstall windows8 dual system in windows7 system.
One: Win7 installation win8 dual system preparation work
In win7 system to install win8 system, first of all to create a system disk for win8 system, if you will partition the friends can ignore this step. The partitioning method is as follows:
First enter the win7 system, enter the control panel at a time> and then open the Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Click Disk Management

win7 Disk Management
and select a larger disk. For example, if we choose E disk, then right click on the E disk and select “Squeeze volume”, then enter the amount of space needed to compress and allocate new disk in “Enter the amount of compressed space”, because the system disk generally requires more space. If we allocate 20G disk, then directly input 20480, then click: & ldquo; compression & rdquo; then, we can see a free disk space for the green line, then we right click on the space, as shown below: Br>
Create win8 system partition
Click New Volume,>Next> Assign the following drive letter to the drive letter you want to assign (for example, I assigned an I drive). Then click Next > Next > Finish! We can see the I disk in the Explorer, and finally we can change the name of the disk to win8, so the preparation is complete!

Create win8 system disk for dual system. Complete two: Win7 dual system is officially started in win7. In the above windows7 system, we have created the win8 system disk, then we will enter the core point of this article, the installation of win8 system. Here, we use the method of directly installing windows8 on the hard disk. The installation system directory is placed on the I disk (win8 disk).
1.) First download the win8 system online, you can download the consumer preview version, and then extract it.
There should be noted here that the downloaded win8 system should not be placed directly on the I disk, but should be placed on other disks, such as we can put on the E disk, and then extract the win8 system files, still in the E disk.
2.) Open the decompressed win8 system folder, then find the setup.exe system installation and running files in the sources file, double-click to start running the installation, after the system installation is similar to our U disk installation win8 process, all the way to the next step, And fill in the win8 installation key, in the next prompt to choose which disk to install, here we must choose to install to the I disk we created (that is, win8 disk), as shown below:

To choose win8 after installing the I(win8) disk
, follow the prompts to complete the installation. After about 20 minutes, after a long wait, the general system can be installed. Here is a brief explanation of why we installed win8 in win7 to create a new system disk, the first is to create a system staging, because the system is generally installed in the active partition, and because the installation of win8 to the specified disk, the installation selected a certain After the disk, the corresponding disk data will be formatted or overwritten during the system process, so if it is installed on other disks, data loss will occur.
If you feel that the windows8 system is not working well in the later stage, we can also simply uninstall the windows8 system. The method is also very simple. The format win8 system disk (I disk), then delete the partition and expand the partition space to other disks. Finally, delete the boot option of win8 boot interface, you can read the details: how to delete win8 dual system how to delete win8 partition.

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