Installing Windows 8/8.1 COMPLETE Walkthrough
12Installing Windows 8/8.1 COMPLETE Walkthrough.
Here it is in a nutshell: if you don't have an optical drive in your computer (those things that take those shiny BD, DVD, or CD discs), and you want to install Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 on that computer, you'll need to get the Windows 8 installation files onto some kind of media that you can boot from.
Fortunately, the ubiquitous and inexpensive flash drive, or any other USB based drive, is a perfect solution. While many computers don't have optical drives, they all have USB ports... thank goodness.
Once you have those installation files onto a flash drive, which is exactly what we'll show you how to do over the course of this tutorial, you can move on to the actual Windows 8 installation process, which we also have a complete tutorial of - but we'll get to that at the end.
LINK: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows8
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops,and tablets running the Windows 10 operating system (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba,Lenovo, and Samsung).