

You can easily repeat the steps if the computer is not booting from USB. Press that key and look for an entry that says Boot or Boot order and make sure that USB has the highest priority on the system. You usually enter the Bios with F1, F1, Delete, Esc or another key that is highlighted on the screen on post. The Format window pops up where you need to make sure that Fat32 is the selected file system. This is done by connecting the USB key to the computer, right-clicking its drive letter and selecting Format from the options. The first step is to format the key with the FAT32 file system. You need an USB key with at least four Gigabytes of free space. Installation is a little bit difficult, as it requires more preparation than just burning an ISO image to disk and putting that ISO into the DVD drive of the computer. The only viable option in this case is to install from USB keys, sticks or drives.

It is fairly underpowered by today's standards, and does not come with a DVD drive which I could use otherwise to install Windows 8. I thought it would be perfect for my Acer notebook. There is only one restriction with regards to the installation: you cannot update an existing copy of Windows, the Windows 8 installation requires a clean install. Users from all over the world can download the preview and install it on their systems. Microsoft has just released a developer preview of their upcoming operating system Windows 8.
