How to Install Windows 8 Consumer Preview Beta From USB Flash Drive or DVD

This is a step by step guide on how to install Windows 8 Consumer Preview Beta on a hard drive partition using a bootable USB Flash drive or DVD created using either ISO images or Win 8 Consumer Preview Setup. For this guide, we used a HP 630 laptop with a Pentium processor.

Once you have a bootable Windows 8 Beta USB Flash stick or DVD, you can insert it in your laptop or other PC and start installation.

Here are the steps we did to install the OS on the laptop via a USB pen drive. For installation from DVD, the steps are the same, except in your PC’s BIOS or boot menu where you choose desired Win 8 media.

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