Help installing Windows 8 dual boot

Skeng · 4 May 2013 at 17:15

Hi,
So I've got to do some benchmarking for my dissertation and Windows 8 is one of the operating systems I'm going to use. I've got a spare drive I want to install it on but it's being a right bugger to install. I don't have any discs to put Windows 8 on so I've been using DAEMON tools to mount the image and install through Windows 7. I just want to stick it on my spare hard drive but the option hasn't come up thus far and now it's starting to install without me being able to select which disk I want it on.

Am I missing something because every other OS I've installed in the past including OSX or Linux has at least let me select a drive Windows 8 just seems to get on with it.

theheyes · 4 May 2013 at 17:23

Can you not just create a bootable usb stick if you haven't got any discs?

Skeng · 4 May 2013 at 18:39

theheyes said:
Can you not just create a bootable usb stick if you haven't got any discs?

I don't have a big enough USB drive.

marc2003 · 4 May 2013 at 19:15

don't run setup.exe from the root. i think there's one in the sources folder and that will let you choose a drive like older versions.

Stat1c · 4 May 2013 at 19:31

Don't know why anyone would want windows 8. It's like they ripped out half of windows 7 then glued it together with xbox live. Only you can't play Halo 4.

I fail to see how the hell it will work in a corporate environment.

Skeng · 5 May 2013 at 11:11

marc2003 said:
don't run setup.exe from the root. i think there's one in the sources folder and that will let you choose a drive like older versions.

It does have an old installer in sources thanks for the help.

I can't believe they wouldn't have these options in the main installer.

theheyes · 5 May 2013 at 11:15

I guess it's because you're launching it from within Windows.