How Windows 7 installs the Win8 installation tutorial

As WINDOWS8 has been finalized, we can now download the Windows 8 free consumer preview version. However, the later version of the WINDOWS8 system is also similar to the consumer preview version, the following article will teach you how to install the WINDOWS8 system. There are many ways to install win8 at present, which are divided into:

⒈) I don't want to keep windows 7, just install a Windows 8

The first method: Upgrade the installation from Win7 (described in this article)

The second method: The new installation, the establishment of a dual system, recommended by U Disk Mode installation

⒉) I want to keep Windows 7 for Windows 7+windows 8 dual Systems

First method: Install Windows 8 in a virtual machine

The second method: Dual system, boot can choose which to start

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This article we will use the first method: from Win7 upgrade installation Win8 to introduce, other related introduction, please refer to other articles. The simplest way to upgrade the Win7 system directly to the WIN8 system installation is as follows:

First of all, we download the latest Windows 8 operating system files, because it is an ISO image file, so the decompression of the ISO file is recommended to use the latest version of the decompression software can be decompressed, here is recommended to use the new WinRAR compression decompression software can, Details can be read: ISO file meaning and ISO file open method?

One: We unzip the downloaded WIN8 system iOS file, find the Sources folder, and find in this folder in the Setup program, click Install can, the following figure:

Locate the setup run file in the Sources folder after extracting the Win8 mirrored file

Locate the Setup run file and double-click it to run the following figure

Second: After running the Setup.exe file in the above image, will pop up the WINDOWS8 installation interface, we will first see the prompt "Setup is copying temporary files" Waiting for temporary file copy complete, we go into step.

Setup is copying temporary files

When you are done, go to the next step

In the next Windows Installer Wizard, we first select the "Get the latest updates to setup (recommended) (G)" option, and then next, click the following figure:

Select "Get the latest updates for setup online"

Third: In the next step into the request we want to enter the product key to activate Windows, we fill in the Activation code: DNJXJ-7XBW8-2378T-X22TX-BKG7J, and then to the next step, the following figure:

Enter a product key to activate Windows

Entering the correct product key will enter the following software installation interface which we are all familiar with, first we choose "accept the agreement" and click Next, the following figure:

Select "I accept License Terms"

Four: After the "I accept the license terms" Check selected, we click Next to select which type of installation you want, because we are here to introduce the upgrade from Windows7 to Windows8, so here we choose the first way, the following figure:

Select installation type for upgrade

Select install type for upgrade, we click Next, enter system installation or upgrade system disk, here our system generally placed in C disk, so here Select C Disk, the following figure:

Choose to install system on system disk: C disk

After waiting for the normal installation of Windows 8, after the installation is complete, will need to restart the computer, installation completed and restart the system, and then enter the computer we can find that the computer has become a windows8 system, in fact, the upgrade method is quite simple.

Tip: Here is the need to note that the installation of the use of local accounts, rather than the Microsoft account, and this upgrade Windows7 system installation WINDOWS8 also has a little disadvantage, that is, if Windows7 is a 32-bit system, then upgrade the system can only upgrade to 32-bit WINDOWS8 system, If the 64-bit Windows7 upgrade to WINDOWS9, the same can only be upgraded to 64 not, but not to 32, this point you can understand.