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a, First of all, you will need to download the ISO image of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview.
b, You will need to extract the files from the ISO image, so my preferred tool is SlySoft’s Virtual
CloneDrive. This is free and easy to use. What it allows you to do is mount the ISO file as a drive. This
will be needed later.
c, Now to format your USB flash drive. Keep in mind that this will erase all of the files on your USB flash
drive, so you might want to double check it for important data before proceeding. Your flash drive
should be at least 8Gb (especially if you are installing the 64bit version of Windows 8)
Plug in your USB Flash drive if you have not already done so.
Start a Command Prompt as an administrator (click the Start button and type CMD, right-click on
cmd.exe and select “Run as administrator" and accept the UAC prompt, assuming you are using
Windows Vista or Windows 7)
Type diskpart and then press ENTER
For each line, type the parts on BOLD and press ENTER after each entry, the notes are for reference
only
DISKPART> list disk (note: this will list the disks on your system. Typically look for the one that
matches the capacity of your USB flash drive)
DISKPART> select disk x (note: x is the number for your USB flash drive you obtained from the list
command above)
DISKPART> clean (note: this will erase your USB flash drive)
DISKPART> create partition primary (note: this will create a new primary partition on the USB
Flash drive)
DISKPART> select partition 1 (note: this will select the partition you just created)
DISKPART> active (note: this will set the new partition as active, which identifies it as a valid system
partition)
DISKPART> format FS=NTFS QUICK (note: this will perform a quick format on the USB Flash drive)
DISKPART> assign (note: this will assign a drive letter to the partition)
DISKPART> exit
d, now we need to put the boot files from the ISO image you downloaded earlier on to the USB Flash
drive. You will need to mount the ISO image using Sly Soft’s Virtual Clone Drive. To do this, right-click
on the ISO image you downloaded (i.e. Windows8-ConsumerPreview-64bit-English.iso) and select
“Mount”. If you do not see the “Mount” option, it may mean that the Virtual Clone Drive (or similar)
tool is not installed. Once you have selcted “Mount”, a drive letter will be assigned to the ISO image.
Make a note as to what drive letter has been assigned to the ISO, in my case drive “F:”.
Next, you will need to start a Command Prompt as an administrator (click the Start button and
type CMD, right-click on cmd.exe and select “Run as administrator" and accept the UAC prompt,
assuming you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7).
Navigate to your ISO drive, in my case “F:” and type the following:
cd \boot (thanks Ron T for pointing this out)
boot sect /nt60 y: (note: where y: is the drive letter assigned to your USB Flash drive – this will copy
across the boot files)
e, Lastly, we will need to copy the installation files across from the ISO image to the USB Flash drive.
To do this, type the following:
XCOPY X:\*.* Y:\ /E /J /H (note: where x: is the drive letter assigned to your ISO image and y: is the
drive letter assigned to your USB Flash Drive)
You should note have a Windows 8 Bootable USB flash drive.
Enjoy!
ALTERNATIVE
Install Windows 7/Vista using bootable USB guide

And also, you can refer install Windows 7 on Acer Aspire One guide
Coming back to bootable USB guide, here we assume that you are using either Vista or
Windows 7 to create a bootable USB.
Step 1: Insert your USB (4GB+ preferable) stick to the system and backup all the data from the
USB as we are going to format the USB to make it as bootable.
Step 2: Open elevated Command Prompt. To do this, type in CMD in Start menu search field
and hit Ctrl + Shift + Enter. Alternatively, navigate to Start > All programs >Accessories >
right click on Command Prompt and select run as administrator.
Step 3: When the Command Prompt opens, enter the following command:
DISKPART and hit enter.
LIST DISK and hit enter.
Once you enter the LIST DISK command, it will show the disk number of your USB drive. In
the below image my USB drive disk no is Disk 1.
Step 4: In this step you need to enter all the below commands one by one and hit enter. As these
commands are self-explanatory, you can easily guess what these commands do.
SELECT DISK 1 (Replace DISK 1 with your disk number)
CLEAN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
SELECT PARTITION 1
ACTIVE
FORMAT FS=NTFS
(Format process may take few seconds)
ASSIGN
EXIT
Don’t close the command prompt as we need to execute one more command at the next step. Just
minimize it.
Step 5: Insert your Windows DVD in the optical drive and note down the drive letter of the
optical drive and USB media. Here I use “D” as my optical (DVD) drive letter and “H” as my
USB drive letter.
Step 6: Go back to command prompt and execute the following commands:
D: CD BOOT and hit enter. Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.
CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message.
BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H:
(Where “H” is your USB drive letter)
Step 7: Copy Windows DVD contents to USB.
You are done with your bootable USB. You can now use this bootable USB as bootable DVD on
any computer that comes with USB boot feature (most of the current motherboards support this
feature).
Note that this bootable USB guide will not work if you are trying to make a bootable USB on XP
computer.
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