Would you like to test out Windows 8? Don’t you want to fully replace your system with Windows 8? Then your option would be having both Windows 8 as well as Windows 7 in the same system! I have tried this on my laptop. So its time for you to try it out if you would like to! 😉

Requirements:

Windows 8 Release Preview works great on the same hardware that powers Windows 7:

• Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster
• RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)
• Hard disk space: 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
• Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver

• Minimum Knowledge on installing a Windows OS

Dual booting doesn’t slow down much, It only needs about 16GB – 20GB free space for Windows 8 to be installed. Well, Let’s get started!

First, you would need to create an additional primary partition of size more than 20GB. For this, Go to Start -> Right click Computer ->Click Manage -> Click Disc Management (Left side).

Now you would see some square boxes, You could see a box saying (C:) with total space of that partition. Right click and select Shrink Volume. Now enter the amount of disk space you would like to allocate for Windows 8 in MB, Like I said, if you want to allocate 20GB then enter 20480. Now you would get a blank drive, Right click on it and select “New Simple Volume” to format the drive with a file system. Just follow the instructions said there and after that Windows 8 would be ready to install in that particular partition.

Now download Windows 8 & place it on a DVD or USB (Tutorial).

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Make sure you get a serial key for Windows 8 which can be available from the official site : Download Windows 8 Release Preview

Like I said in the last tutorial, Plug the USB or DVD in and restart your system. After restarting your system you could see the installation screen, Just follow what it says, when it asks for which partition to install, Just choose the one you have created just now!

After finishing the installation, when your computer starts you would get a screen to choose which operating system to choose, Windows 8 or Windows 7!

That’s it! Enjoy.