I am planning on purchasing an SSD to put in my laptop, but it will not be replacing the standard hard drive, they will just be side-by-side. I will be completely reformatting the regular drive so that I can install Windows 8 on the SSD and use the old one as just plain storage. However, I am not sure how I will reinstall Windows 8 when I get to that point. If I use the reset feature, it will reinstall to my standard drive right? How do I install to the SSD? I looked around and I can't seem to find anywhere to download an ISO of Windows 8 or 8.1. I keep seeing this site however, which says that I can put the installer on a disc or USB. That would be fine, but it says that it only works for upgrading an existing system, but I will be doing a clean install to an SSD. I hope this makes some sense, and maybe someone can help. Thanks!
EDIT: Looking at this recent post with a similar problem, and I am still having trouble. I understand that finding the installation media is the tricky part, but does anyone know of a good place to get the installation media? If it helps, I am using an ASUS N56VJ.
EDIT: Looking at this recent post with a similar problem, and I am still having trouble. I understand that finding the installation media is the tricky part, but does anyone know of a good place to get the installation media? If it helps, I am using an ASUS N56VJ.
Last edited:
My Computer
System One
-
- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- ASUS N56VJ
- CPU
- Intel i7 - 3630 QM
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Nvidia GeForce 635M
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080
- Browser
- Firefox
- Antivirus
- Windows Defender/MalwareBytes