How to install windows 8 Pro on PC having Win 8.1(basic)

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Thanks in advance ,

I want to install windows 8 pro on a machine which already has the windows 8.1 Basic installed.
Any way to do this, without uninstalling windows 8.1

I had asked same question before but it was reported as a non programming question , dont know why , because Hyper V is available on Windows 8 Pro. and i need Hyper V for some of my devlopment projects (mobile apps emulator)

Thanks.

Posted 26-Jan-14 23:00pm

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Richard MacCutchan 27-Jan-14 7:43am

Do you mean that you want both versions together on the same machine, or you just want the Pro version? If the latter then you just do a clean install.

εїзεїзεїз 28-Jan-14 1:47am

Thanks , i want both and have already installed windows 8.1

Richard MacCutchan 28-Jan-14 4:10am

Then you need to investigate multi-boot feature. There are a number of third party utilities that can help with this. I also seem to remember seeing a white paper on the sunject somewhere on MSDN. Google will help in your research.

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