(Also notwithstanding its name, there’s no real downloading involved.)įor this task you’ll need a flash drive with at least 8GB of available storage. And don’t let the name fool you: although the 1MB utility says it’s for Windows 7, it works like a charm with Windows 8.
The Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool lets you copy that ISO file to a flash drive, then use that drive to install Windows. See, when you download something like the Windows 8 Developer Preview (which anybody can check out, not just developers), you’re left with an ISO file that must be burned to a DVD before you can actually install it. Today, let’s talk about one of my favorite approaches for installing Windows 8, well, anywhere: by way of a flash drive.
If you’ve poked around PC World in recent weeks, you’ve learned how to download and install Windows 8 on a new hard-drive partition and how to install Windows 8 in a virtual machine.
