Installing windows 8 consumer preview in an existing bootcamp partition

Question

anyone done this?
thanks

Answer 1

To add D/E drive for another OS in existing Bootcamp Windows space if you have sufficient GBs,
a) Press Start button on Windows Desktop and key "computer management" into search box, or
b) Right-click you Desktop "computer" icon selecting Manage. If you don't have Desktop computer icon, it can be added via Desktop right-click->Personalize->Change Desktop Icons.
In resulting Computer Management menu (see my Pic which gets bigger if you click on it) right-click on the C: space provides dropdown allowing you to Shrink the C: space by perhaps 60 GB, probably not less than 40 which will result in addition of D/E partition. Windows will format it Ntfs at this point.
Be sure that you have copy of product key provided you. So now when you have your Windows 8 ISO Dvd/Flash? created, assuming install to D/E you select ISO via Mac's boot option menu. When install is done, you run Bootcamp updates as you did for existing Windows version. In my case, I only did first and last (Boot camp 3.1 and Bootcamp 4.0).
Note: you can change the default Windows OS boot and menu time in (key to start menu question) "Advanced System Settings"->Startup and Recovery Settings Tab. So you can got into W 7 or W 8 as you wish.
After Bcamp updates there will be Windows updates and you should be safe with Windows Defender for security, which has been beefed up. You can get Windows Live including Mail, as you wish. Your Pics, Vids, Music, contacts, Faves can be accessd from the C: drive.
To remove the 8 space, when you no longer want it, right click allows "Delete Volume". When done, you can then "Extend Volume" in Windows 7 area to get it back to what it was.