Win7 Installation Win8 dual system tutorial

Recently, the author in a friend computer simple to implement the Windows7 installed Windows8 dual system, method than U disk installation Windows8 is also simple, and the use of WIN7+WIN8 dual systems do not have to worry about which system is not good to use, is quite worth recommending, Below we introduce how to install and uninstall WINDOWS8 dual system in Windows7 system.

One: Win7 installation of WIN8 dual System preparation work

To install the WIN8 system in the Win7 system, first create a system disk for the WIN8 system, and if the partitioned friends can ignore this step. The partitioning method is as follows:

First enter the Win7 system, one at a time into the control Panel and then open the management tool in turn Computer Management click Disk Management

Win7 Disk Management

Then select a disk with a larger capacity, for example, we choose e Disk, and then on the E disk on the right button to select "Compressed volume", and then in the "Input compressed space" in the input needs to compress the allocation of new disk space size, because the system disk generally require more space, such as we allocate 20G disk, then direct input 20480 can After clicking: "Compress", then we can see a free disk space for the Green Line, then we right click on the space, the following figure:

Creating a WIN8 system partition

Click New Volume, next to assign the following drive letter to the letter you want to assign (for example, I am allocating the I disk). Then click Next to finish! We can in the resource manager, see I disk, and finally we will change the name of the disk to Win8 can, so the preparation work is completed!

Create a WIN8 system disk for a dual system two: Win7 installation Win8 dual system officially started

In the above Windows7 system we have created the WIN8 system disk, then enter our core point of this article, WIN8 system installation, here we use the hard drive directly installed Windows8 method, installation system directory is placed in I (Win8 disk).

⒈ first download the WIN8 system on the Internet, the current can download to the consumer preview version, and then extract.

Note here that the download of the WIN8 system should not be placed directly in the I disk, but should be placed on other disks, such as we can put in E disk, and then extract win8 system files, still in E disk.

⒉) Open the WIN8 system folder after decompression, and then find Setup.exe system installation run file in sources file, double-click to start running installation, after the system installation and our USB disk installation Win8 process similar, the next step, as well as fill in the Win8 installation key to, When prompted to choose which disk to install, here we must choose to install to the I disk we created (that is, the WIN8 disk), the following figure:

Be sure to choose to install the WIN8 on the I (WIN8) disk

Then follow the prompts to complete the installation, after about 20 minutes, after a long wait, the general system can be installed to complete. Here is a brief explanation of why we install 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, in addition, as the installation of WIN8 to the specified disk, the installation of the selected disks, the system process will first format or overwrite the corresponding disk data, Therefore, if the installation on another disk will cause data loss.

If the late feel WINDOWS8 system is not useful, we can also simply uninstall the WINDOWS8 system, the method is very simple, format WIN8 system disk (I disk), and then delete the partition, the partition space extended to other disks, Finally delete the Win8 boot interface of the selection of startup items can be read: How to remove Win8 dual system How to delete win8 partition.