After booting from the DVD, the first thing I encountered was the new light blue Windows logo on a black background, as shown in below. This image remained on the screen for a few moments while Setup was initializing.
After a few minutes, you’ll see the Windows Setup screen and you will specify your language settings before clicking Next. When you do, Setup will perform some more initialization tasks in the background.see the below image
As soon as the initial steps are taken, you’ll see the Windows Setup screen shown like below.Now click the Install Now button.
Once you click the Install now button, you’ll see the the first step here is to input the Windows 8 product key.
The next step is to acknowledge that you accept the license terms, as shown in below image.
When you are prompted to choose which type of installation you want to perform, you’ll need to choose Custom: Install Windows only (advanced) type in order to perform a clean install of Windows 8 like below
When you are prompted to choose where you want to install Windows, as shown below, you’ll see a list of any partitions that are currently on your hard disk. You may have a different combination depending on your system.
To create partitions, you start by clicking Drive options (advanced). When you do so, you’ll see a list of commands for managing partitions, as shown in below image.
Now, you’ll select each of the partitions, one by one, and select the Delete command. When you do, you’ll see a confirmation prompt. Just click OK to delete the partition.
Once you delete each of the existing partitions, you’ll see that all of the space will be combined together in one chunk labeled Unallocated Space. While you could create a new partition and format it, you don’t have to. Windows 8 will automatically take care of that in the next step. So just go ahead and click Next.
When you click Next, Setup creates the partition, formats it, and then instantly moves into the Installing Windows phase which begins with copying and getting files ready for the installation, as shown in below image. This process will take a while to progress though.
When this phase of the process is complete, Windows will alert you that it is going to restart in order to continue
Upon restarting you’ll see the black screen with the blue Windows logo and see that Setup is getting devices ready, as shown. As soon as that part of the process is complete, Windows will alert you that it is going to restart again
Windows Setup will get all installed devices ready to work with Windows 8.
When the system restarts, you’ll be prompted to choose a color scheme for Windows 8 and a PC name, as shown in below.
When the Settings screen appears, you can choose to customize these settings or you can allow Windows to use the express settings. If you are unsure, you can click the Learn more link and get more details.chose to use the express settings.You can change any or all of these setting later if you want.
On the next screen, you’ll choose how you want to sign on to Windows 8, as shown in below picture. While you can choose to sign in with a local account
The advantage of using an existing Microsoft account or creating one is that you will be able to instantly use the Windows Store, will be able to easily sync settings between multiple Windows 8 computers, and be able to easily take advantage of other Windows 8 features.
After filling the details of your account on the next couple of screens, you’ll eventually see a screen that changes color as it alerts you the Setup is getting your PC ready.
After filling the details of your account on the next couple of screens, you’ll eventually see a screen that changes color as it alerts you the Setup is getting your PC ready.
As you may know, Windows 8 comes with a host of native apps for the Start screen interface that replace and add to the group of applications that used to come with previous versions of Windows. The below screen indicates that Setup is installing those apps.
