Download and installation of Windows 8 on a drive partition

How to download and install Windows 8 pre-beta version (developer edition) on a new partition.

Although running your current window , you can dabble with the windows 8 in a new partition making it for the sake of checking and getting experienced.

Well, to start with, if you have a new drive then this is a very easy task to perform. Just visit the website Microsoft Developer Network site, download the ISO image and burn it to a DVD, turn off your PC. Place your hard drive into the motherboard; this depends on the type of hard drive you are using. It can be usb connected also and just need a change in BIOS menu, which is quite simple. Turn on your PC and make sure that your CD-ROM drive gets the booting option and you should boot off your new Windows 8 disk. Run the windows 8 installer and follow the steps as per the software.

However, if you have only a single drive and need a partition then it becomes, little bit time consuming to do the same. This will tell you how to make a partition in your hard drive. Assuming that you have windows 7, go to control panel and then to administrative tools. Now, double-click on the "Computer Management" option. "Disk Management" << "Storage">>.

Now, you can see that your primary drive is already partitioned into C:\ and contains all the program files and folders.

Right-click on the C:\ volume and select the "Shrink Volume" option, and make the size of your volume to almost 16 gigabytes for a 32-bit installation of Windows 8 or 20 gigabytes for a 64-bit installation.

Now, you will be able to see a new partitioned drive appearing next to C:\ drive. Right-click on it, select the "New Simple Volume" option, and select the "Next" button until you reach the screen for assigning letters and drive paths.

Assign the letter of your choice. Click "Next" and give your volume a witty name, and then hit "Next" (and then "Finish") to quick-format the volume as an NTFS partition.

Now, burn the Windows 8 image to a disc using a free like Imgburn or CDBurnerXP, then reboot your PC, open BIOS menu and change the boot order to optical drive.

So, in this way you can install windows 8 in your portioned drive.