Windows 8 Customer Preview Installation Tutorial

The official statistics have been downloaded more than 500,000 times since Microsoft officially provided the Windows 8 Developer Preview Download, which shows the user's attention to WIN8. and Windows 8 's own Metro interface does give us a glimpse of a different kind of windows from the past.

Microsoft made a detailed presentation to Win8 at the 2011 build Convention, and in addition to the new features of the cool Metro style operating interface, the astonishing speed of 8 seconds turned out to be impressive. Looking at these envious technology, if you also want to experience some, may wish to start with the author Win8 installation tour.

TechWeb tip: Because the current use of U-disk installation of Windows is very common, so the author is still focused on the installation of Windows 8 U disk production, if you want to use the traditional CD-ROM installation, you can skip the first step.

Create the WIN8 system can install U disk steps

The figure above has been clearly identified, follow these 4 steps to complete the image below the interface.

Disc information is added and started writing to the USB image file

The previous step begins by writing a mirrored file to the USB drive, and then pops up the following interface. Choose the path to make a USB drive this step is mainly to choose the path to write USB disk, if you insert more than one USB disk, then you need to select to make a Startup disk USB. In addition, do the boot disk must be empty disk, so there is data in the case of the need for early backup, once the point is written, pop-up interface confirmation, then the system will automatically format the USB drive, so need to backup to avoid data loss.

I believe we have learned how to make a USB drive that can install WINDOWS8 system.

WIN8 System Installation Steps

The entire WIN8 installation is very smooth, the steps are basically the same as the Win7, but all the instructions in English, not installed Win7 users may have some trouble. The following is a step-by-step way to tell you how to install the WINDOWS8 operating system.

Just finished the U disk's win boot disk, the following need to pass the BIOS settings to allow the system to boot USB drive installation.

Press F12 button, or press the DEL key to enter the BIOS boot settings inside, so that the boot option to the USB drive.

The startup item is selected after the USB start setting is completed, the system reboots, this time can be directly guided with U disk, then do not need any operation, go to the following image copy file.

U disk boot start copying files

Because it is a USB drive installation, so this step is very fast, compared to the CD-ROM is much faster

Enter the WIN8 installation interface, select Install Now to

Installation terms, of course, all the way "agree"

This interface is the installation of the attention clause, we directly select the following consent option. Otherwise there is no way to continue the next step. Then press the Next button.

Because this article also tests the disk performance of the two systems, so the author chooses the current fastest solid-state hard drive. In the partition, we found that WIN8 reserved storage System Information space of 350MB, and Win7 reserved system capacity of only 100MB, visible Win8 system Information more.

After the division is formatted, select next to start the installation

Win8 Launch Interface

We see the Win8 start interface is very concise, there is no Win7 time Windows fluttering Classic window, look really a bit unaccustomed. Add Computer Information

The above two items are the information that adds the computer name and the user name, not the same name

Windows 8 Start interface

Win8 finally installed, this is the Start menu, looks very much like a tablet computer. Because all the sections can be moved and deleted added.

Windows 8 Desktop, preliminary look consistent with Windows 7

Only a desktop environment like Win7, there is only one recycling station on the table lying quietly. The lower left corner of the beginning of the key point into the picture above will appear, use it is not particularly convenient.

In the start time comparison, we see that the WIN8 operating system does not let us down, although the interface is not very accustomed to, but think from the DOS era to the XP era is also experienced this process. However, only 13 seconds of start-up time is very gratifying.

From the WIN8 installation process, the sensory steps are basically the same as the Win7, only a few steps need to set up, do not understand the rookie can ignore skip, so the installation is not too big problem. The biggest problem is that more new features and new interface is difficult to adapt, so I began to find the Shutdown button where, make a sweat. However, new products are always to replace the old products, so in order to Win8 or a development trend, believe that the final version of the WIN8 can bring users a better experience, especially in the field of touch control, better play their own advantages.