![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From there, just fire up the Windows 8 installer and install the operating system to your new drive. Then just turn your system on and either press the key that allows you to access your motherboard’s boot menu or change the boot options in the BIOS so your optical drive is recognized before your main hard drive you should then be booting off your new Windows 8 disk. Once you chose which disk you want to analyse, the program will show you a list of all the folders with the space they each occupy (normally 'My Documents' and 'Program Files' will occupy most of the hard disk). If you have a spare hard drive lying around, this process is pretty easy: Download the appropriate Windows 8 ISO from the Microsoft Developer Network site, burn it to a DVD, turn off your PC, slap the hard drive in your case, and connect it up to your motherboard. MeinPlatz is a free tool that can analyze your hard disks and folders for free space, or uselessly occupied space. If you don’t feel like mucking your hard drive with another partition, read How to Download and Install Windows 8 to a Virtual Machine for a less-intrusive way to get Windows 8 up and running on your PC. We’ll show you how to download and install the Windows 8 developer’s preview onto a separate partition (or separate hard drive, if you have a spare). Excellent! But you’re not foolhardy enough to try using a developer preview build as your main work/play operating system–you just want to dabble. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |