After a bit, the WIndows 8 install DVD showed up as an option and booting to it, I could use the advanced install to choose the partition (the one with Windows 7 on it) and reformat the partition, erasing Windows 7. ![]() ![]() After poking around a bit, I found that holding down the Option key on the Mac keyboard while the Mac is booting gives you an option screen – I remembered this is how I booted between Windows and Mac OSX so makes sense. I downloaded the Windows 8 ISO image from the site, burned it to a DVD (using Active ISO Burner), booted up my Mac – and realized I didn’t know how on a MacBook to get it to boot from CD (on a Windows machine, you press F10 usually – I know, that’s intuitive). I decided rather than update that, I would just wipe it and install Windows 8 clean. ![]() I had previously set up this machine to dual-boot between Windows 7 and Mac OS using Boot Camp, so there already was a disk partition on the MacBook for Windows. I had an old MacBook Pro laptop hanging around my office (I upgraded to a Sony Vaio recently) so when the Windows 8 Consumer Preview came out, I decided to use it to run Win8.
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