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How do I install Windows 8 from a Windows 10 machine?

nieblas008
By nieblas008
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Hi guys, hope you can help me and not take much of your time.

 

Long story short but I need to install Windows 8.1 on my PC. I only have one drive, so I decided to partition it. I also downloaded the Windows 8.1 ISO from the Microsoft website and tried to launch it to put it on a USB. It does not work. I enter a valid license key but it does not let me continue at that point. I also have noticed that it already shows a a Windows 10 ISO USB would show on the file explorer, so I tried copying all that on to the USB and boot from it, but it still does not work. Do you have any ideas of what am I missing or doing wrong? Windows doesn't really tell me any useful information.

 

Anyways, thanks in advance for the help, I appreciate ya.

 

(also btw if anyone needs help in translation from English to Spanish or viceversa, hit me up, I'm a mexican native and just created a profile on fiverr)

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Oh yeah, I forgot about that, thanks for letting me know. Lemme just try that and see how it goes.

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11 minutes ago, nieblas008 said:

Oh yeah, I forgot about that, thanks for letting me know. Lemme just try that and see how it goes.

Why do you want to install an outdated, generally terrible OS?

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10 hours ago, orbitalbuzzsaw said:

Why do you want to install an outdated, generally terrible OS?

Probably for compatibility, or testing, regardless, it still properly supported, and the OP is dual booting

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Better if you just do a vm install.

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2 hours ago, SupaKomputa said:

Better if you just do a vm install.

Maybe for the drive space usage, but not for much else. Like said, its still supported and running native OS is less resource-hungry than VM.

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