With the advent operating system Users now have Windows 8 additional features, which will help make working at the computer more convenient and interesting. In this article I will describe in detail how you can install Windows 8 on a computer or laptop from a flash drive.
System requirements
First, make sure your computer meets the minimum system requirements:
- processor frequency of at least 1 GHz;
- RAM at least 1 GB for a 32-bit OS, and 2 GB for a 64-bit OS;
- The volume of the allocated partition on the hard drive must be at least 20 GB (I allocated 18 GB, and that was enough for me).
Creating a new disk partition
Now you need to select a hard drive partition for Windows installations 8. If you want to install it instead of your old OS, then format the hard drive partition on which it was installed. If you want to install Windows 8 next to your main OS, then you need to select an empty partition on your hard drive.
Creating a bootable USB flash drive
Download the Windows 8 operating system image from the Internet. Then you will need a flash drive, the volume of which should be larger than the downloaded image. Please note that all information from the flash drive will be erased. So copy everything from it necessary files to the partition of the hard drive where the data is stored.
The next thing to do is create a bootable USB flash drive. For this you can use various ways. I'll use the free and simple program Rufus.
Launch it on your computer and select the desired flash drive in the “Device” line. Fill out the next three lines as shown in the figure below. Next, click on the floppy disk icon and select the downloaded image on your computer. Click the "Start" button.
The following window will appear in which the program will warn you that all data from the flash drive will be erased - click “OK”.
After the bootable USB flash drive with the image we need has been created, click on the “Close” button.
Changing the download priority
Now we need to change the boot priority in the BIOS so that the computer starts from our flash drive. Connect the flash drive to the computer on which you will install the operating system. To enter the BIOS, press the F2 or Del button while turning it on or rebooting, this depends on your device. You can change the boot priority in the “Boot” section.
Let's watch a video on how to go into the BIOS settings and boot from a flash drive or disk:
I have ASUS laptop and BIOS looks like this. In the “Boot” section I go to “Hard Drive BBS Priorities”.
Here you need to find the item that contains the words USB or Flash, and put it at the top of the list.
WITH right side read which button is responsible for saving the settings, I have F10, click on it, then click “Yes”.
The computer will reboot and the message will appear - press any button on the keyboard, then the boot will be performed from the flash drive and the installation of the operating system will begin.
Installing Windows 8
In the next window, select your language, time format and keyboard layout, click Next.
Enter your product serial key and click Next.
Check the box next to the item "I accept the license terms" and click Next.
Now select the item "Custom: Windows installation only".
Next, you need to specify the hard drive partition on which you want to install the OS. Select it and click "Disk Setup". In the next window, click on the button "Format", and then "Next".
After this, the installation of the operating system will begin. Wait for the process to complete and the computer to restart.
After rebooting, the message will appear again “Press any key to boot from USB...”, you don’t need to press anything, otherwise you will boot from the flash drive again.
In the next window, select a suitable background and give your computer a name. Click Next.
If your device is connected to the Internet, you will immediately be prompted to select a network.
The network may be secure, so you must enter a password. Then click Connect.
The next window will ask you to set up your account. Microsoft entry. With its help, you can install applications from the Windows Store, synchronize files and settings. I won't create an account (you can do that later if you need to), so I click the button "Entry without account Microsoft".
Fill in the line "Username". If you want the operating system to prompt you for a password when booting, fill in the following fields; if not, leave them blank. Click Done.
More often modern laptops and computers are produced without the usual drive optical disks. such devices can only be accessed from a flash drive, while operating systems are distributed on CDs or in the form ISO file ov. Finding themselves in such a situation, users often ask the question of how to burn Windows 8 to a flash drive.
There are several ways to burn Windows 8 to a USB flash drive. In this article we will look at the two most popular methods: using the program
Burn Windows 8 to a USB flash drive using the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool
The first thing you need to do is run the program Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool(it is possible). After launch, you will see a window in which you need to select ISO image to write to a flash drive.
Click on the " Browse" button and select the operating ISO file Windows systems 8. If you don’t have an ISO file, but you do, then you can then burn Windows 8 to a USB flash drive. After you have selected the disk image, click on the “Next” button.
After that Windows program 7 USB/DVD Download tool will ask you to select the drive you want to use for Windows entries 8. Click on the “USB device” button.
After clicking on the “ Begin copying” button, the program will warn you about deleting data on the flash drive. If the flash drive does not have the files you need, then click on the “Erase USB Device” button.
All of these simple actions enough to burn Windows 8 to a USB flash drive. After the program finishes, you will receive a full bootable USB flash drive with Windows 8.
Create a bootable USB flash drive with Windows 8 onto a USB flash drive using the UltraISO program
You can also use the UltraISO program. In order to create a bootable USB flash drive with Windows 8 using the UltraISO program, we need to open the ISO file with Windows 8 in the UltraISO program. This can be done using the “Open” button on the UltraISO program panel or using the “File – Open” menu.
After this, the “Write Disk Image” window will appear. Here you need to select a drive to create a bootable USB flash drive with Windows 8.
After this, you can click on the “Record” button. Before you start creating a bootable USB flash drive UltraISO program will warn you that all data will be deleted.
If not necessary files Click “ YES" and the UltraISO program will start the process of creating a bootable USB flash drive with Windows 8.
Have you decided to reinstall Windows 8, but don’t know how to burn the image with its distribution onto a flash drive? This article will help you understand how to create a bootable Windows flash drive 8 when in use free utilities, implying that the user has an image with the G8 installation files.
But why can't you just copy the contents of the ISO file to removable storage and use it to install the OS? The fact is that when the PC boots, the BIOS, after initializing the hardware, begins searching for the boot sector. It queries the first sector of the drive to find the MBR master boot record code. When an MBR is detected, the BIOS transfers control to it. The MBR detects the active partition and reads its 1st sector, which contains the Windows boot loader - PBR. When simply copying files from an ISO image to a drive, the MBR main boot area is not formed on it and boot record(OS loader) – PBR.
Windows USB DVD Tool
Official utility from Microsoft, which allows you to create a boot drive. Despite its original purpose for working with Windows 7, the application will allow you to make a bootable USB flash drive with a G8. Requires an installed platform to operate NET Framework v2.
- Download, install and run the utility.
- Click on the “Browse” button, set the path to the image in ISO format, click “Open” or “Enter”.
- Click on the “Next” button.
- Select “USB device”.
- Click on the “Begin copying” button after selecting the desired flash drive from the list.
- To do bootable media, confirm formatting the flash drive by clicking “Erase USB Device”.
- We wait while the application copies the installation files.
- After the message “Backup completed” appears, close the program window.
WinToFlash program
Another program with a similar operating algorithm that will allow you to make a bootable USB flash drive.
- Launch the installed utility.
- In the “First Launch Wizard” window, select “ Free license" and click "Next", accepting license agreement developers.
- Then the advertisement will load.
- We select the operation of the product in wizard mode by checking the option to always run in wizard mode. This will allow you to make an installation USB disk in a few clicks.
- Connect the drive to the USB port, if it is not connected, and copy from it important information to the hard drive, as it will be deleted.
- Move the trigger switch to the position as in the screenshot.
- Click “Select” and set the path to the Windows 8 image.
- In field " USB disk"Select the required media from the drop-down list if the application has selected the wrong one.
- Click “Next”.
- In the next window, click “Continue” to create a flash drive for Windows reinstallation 8, ignoring the warning about recording an unlicensed copy of it.
- The transfer of the image contents to the USB flash drive will start without any warnings.
WinSetupFromUSB
WinSetupFromUSB is a powerful application that allows you to create a flash drive with Windows distribution, LiveCD, WinPE and Linux. The utility can also make a multi-boot device with multiple OSes.
- Download the latest reaction of the program and unpack the sfx archive into a convenient directory.
- We launch the edition of WinSetupFromUSB, suitable for the bit depth of Windows installed on your PC (x64 or x32).
- Click on the desired flash drive in the “USB disk selection...” field.
- Check the “Auto format with FBinst” option to delete all information from the flash drive (optional).
- If you check the box, select file system(FAT32 recommended) or skip the step.
- In the “Add USB disk” frame, check the box next to the second item, as in the screenshot.
- Click on the button with three dots and set the path for placing the ISO file.
- Click “GO” to create a bootable drive with the Windows 8 distribution.
- We confirm the formatting of the device and wait for the completion of the process of transferring data from the ISO to the flash drive.
Similarly, you can make a flash drive with installation files. Windows files using Rufus, so we won’t dwell on it.
Ultra ISO
To make bootable media using UltraIso, you need to format it, then create an MBR. The tiny BootIce utility is suitable for this.
The WinSetupFromUSB program is quite suitable for these purposes; it has recently been updated to final version and gained new opportunities. Now the WinSetupFromUSB program can create a bootable USB flash drive UEFI Windows 8! This means that with the help of such a bootable USB flash drive you can install Windows 8 not only on a computer or laptop with simple BIOS, but you can also install Windows 8 on a computer with a UEFI BIOS. WinSetupFromUSB is so far the only program capable of creating a bootable UEFI USB flash drive for Windows 8, and most importantly, it’s all simple, even a beginner can do it.
How to create a bootable USB flash drive for Windows 8
The impetus for writing this article was the fact that several regular readers asked me in the comments to pay attention to the updated version of WinSetupFromUSB (thank you, friends). The process of creating a bootable Windows 8 USB flash drive in the WinSetupFromUSB program looks outrageously simple.
In addition, it creates UEFI flash drive which is definitely a plus this method. I described all the capabilities of the new UEFI interface in my article BIOS UEFI, but here I will briefly note that UEFI gives, for example, the ability to convert your new one when installing Windows 8 HDD or SSD drive to the latest table format standard GPT partitions, and this is an increase in performance ( Windows boot 8 on a GPT disk occurs in 5-7 seconds), more simple work with sections hard drive, security and besides, you will have a better chance of recovering accidentally deleted data.
How to create a bootable USB flash drive for Windows 8 using WinSetupFromUSB
We go to the official website of the WinSetupFromUSB program.
Select WinSetupFromUSB-1-3.exe (22 MB)
the program is downloaded to our computer. Click double click left mouse on the program installer.
Files are being extracted to a folder. If we are going to make a bootable USB flash drive for Windows 8 64 bit, then we run the file WinSetupFromUSB_1-3_x64.exe.
Attention: Comrades, if you need a bootable UEFI flash drive with Windows 8, then you will have to format the flash drive into the FAT32 file system, which means that the image of your Windows 8 should be less than 4 GB, since the FAT32 file system does not work with files larger than 4GB. Go straight to the very end of the article, there is detailed information for you there.
Most users do not need a UEFI flash drive, but rather a regular bootable flash drive with the Windows 8 operating system, which means the image of your Windows 8 may well be more than 4 GB, so the bootable Windows 8 flash drive we created will be in NTFS format!
In the main window of the WinSetupFromUSB program you can see the name of our connected flash drive.
Check the box Auto format it with FBinst and check the box NTFS
Check the box Vista/7/8/Server 2008/2012 based ISO and click on the button on the right that opens the Explorer window
If your flash drive is formatted in the FAT32 file system, then this warning will appear, click OK.
Explorer opens, find the ISO image of Windows 8 64 bit, select it with the left mouse and click "Open".
Click GO
A warning will open, click Yes
Here we also click Yes.
The process of creating our bootable USB flash drive begins, which ends successfully.
Bootable USB flash drive Windows 8 is here!
But let's not rush here. And let's pay attention to this.
If you decide to install Windows 8 on a laptop or computer with a UEFI BIOS, then during installation you will convert your hard drive to the GPT partition table standard; for this you need to configure the UEFI BIOS itself accordingly.
If you decide to install Windows 8 on a laptop or computer with a simple BIOS, you simply boot your computer from the Windows 8 bootable USB flash drive we just created.
If you have correctly set the priority in the BIOS to boot your computer from a flash drive or simply selected your flash drive in the laptop boot menu,
then when you boot a computer or laptop from a flash drive, the first thing that will appear is this menu, you don’t need to select anything in it and it will disappear within a few seconds.
Next, the GRUB4DOS bootloader window will appear, which the WinSetupFromUSB program uses as a bootloader. Next, using the arrows on the keyboard, select the first option 0 Windows NT6 (Vista/7 and above) Setup, which means installing the operating systems Windows Vista, Windows 7 and above. Press Enter.
In the next window, select Windows 8.0 x64 and press Enter,
The operating system installation process begins from our Windows 8 bootable USB flash drive.
Further.
Install.
Enter the key.
We accept the license agreement. Full installation (additional options).
In this window, select the partition to install the operating system and click next, the Windows 8 installation process has begun.
If you don’t know what to do next, then refer to our article Installing Windows 8, it describes in detail how to partition a hard drive in the Windows 8 installation program and how to install this new operating system from Microsoft.
How to create a bootable UEFI flash drive Windows 8 using WinSetupFromUSB
In this case, the process of creating a bootable Windows 8 USB flash drive differs only in that the flash drive needs to be formatted to the FAT32 file system.
If you want to install the Windows 8 operating system, you will need to make a special installation disk or bootable USB flash drive. Disks, as a rule, come complete with licensed versions of the OS. If you prefer to download an ISO image on the Internet and use it, it will be useful for you to learn how to create a bootable USB flash drive for Windows 8.
Windows image
The first thing you will need to do is download an ISO file containing all the files needed to install the operating system. It can be copied from another bootable USB flash drive, or inserted into a DVD drive and read information from it. However, the easiest way is to download the image you need from the Internet.
In this case, you can choose exactly the version you need. Perhaps the image will include additional package drivers, new updates or even useful programs. Other ISOs, on the contrary, may contain a “lighter” Windows in order to fit on a small flash drive. In this case, you will have to download drivers separately for your specific device.
UltraISO program
UltraISO is special program, with which you can make a bootable USB flash drive and work with ISO. With its help, you can create your own Windows 8 image, burn it to disk, add to an existing downloaded ISO file, and much more.
The most well-known convenience of the utility is the ability to change the contents of files without unpacking the ISO. This saves a lot of time and makes working with your computer even more comfortable.
The program is distributed under a paid license, however, users are provided with free trial period to familiarize yourself with the interface. If you do boot disk and you only need the flash drive one time - free version you will have enough.
You can download UltraISO from various sources, for example from the official fan site http://ultraiso-club.ru/. To do this, follow the link and click on the big blue “Download” button. The program will be downloaded as an archive with the rar extension. Unpack it using any archiver, for example, WinRar or SevenZip. 
Installing UltraISO
Installed this program quite common, so users should not have any difficulties.
Open the resulting folder and run the exe file located there. Follow the instructions of the installation wizard (Windows Install Wizard). Read the user license agreement and select the installation directory if the standard path does not suit you.
To continue using UltraISO you will need to activate the product. To do this, launch the utility and select “Enter registration code”. Now go to the folder where you were located installation file and open the one there Text Document. Select any login+key pair and enter them in the UltraISO activation window. 
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