Installing Windows 8 from Scratch. Conversely, if you’re not upgrading from Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7, Microsoft has made it strangely difficult to perform a clean install of ...

Biz & IT — The Windows 8 upgrade install experience If you take good care of your PC, you might not need to do a clean install. Andrew Cunningham - Oct 25, 2012 5:32 pm UTC ...

In fact, a baseline Windows 8 installation will consume fewer system resources than a baseline Windows 7 SP1 build. So if you’re already running Windows 7, you’re in good shape.

The entire process can take awhile, but when it's done, you'll have a bootable (though also Windows-accessible) Windows 8 installation drive you can use to reload or even repair your OS. That's a ...

The ability to install Windows 8 directly from the Web and receive helpful assistance is new with the Release Preview. It's also something slated to pop up in the final version of Windows 8.

Once your PC boots from the Windows 8 DVD, just install Windows 8 to your new partition (identifiable by the drive letter and name you picked out). And here’s an extra tip: ...

It has been two weeks since Windows 8 build 7955 leaked to the Internet. The particular image that leaked that day was an extracted install.wim combined with the Windows 7 installer, so the new ...

Had enough of our Windows 8 Consumer Preview coverage, and want to boldly install the downloadable public beta for yourself? Believe it or not, it’s a pretty easy thing to do. You don’t need ...

The installation for Windows 8 went most smoothly on VMware Fusion 4. Basically, you just: Create New Virtual Machine. Click Continue without disc.

Here's how to dual boot Windows 8 with your current Windows 7 installation so you can run them both side by side. If you've ever dual booted a machine before, this shouldn't seem too foreign.

If you’re a Mac owner curious to give Windows 8 a whirl but can't afford a new PC, follow our guide to find out just how easy it is to install Windows 8 on a Mac.