Download the installation image of Windows 8 (original ISO)

[After launch Windows 10, Microsoft has withdrawn all versions of Windows 8 of the download. Use the article only as an installation tutorial, if you have purchased an image of Windows 8.]

Many users Windows 8 have installed this operating system ca upgrade to Windows 7Because price advantage of Microsoft. Because of this, although they use a Microsoft licensed productNot have the installation image of Windows 8.

Although Microsoft has integrated in Windows 8 two Feature Links allowing virtually reinstall system or reset in its original settings (Reset si PC Refresh), And also provided the users the option to create a Recovery Drive for repair system in case of need, but sometimes these solutions simply are not helpful, and the only remedy is to completely reinstall a system DVD or Bootable USB Stick (Also, in some cases, the installation image is required for repairing the system).

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If you did and your upgrade to Windows 8 online and not on a installer (DVD / USB drive) and you want to download ISO image installation this operating system Windows (Not recommend downloading it from the torrentsBecause it can be modified and may include malicious elements) By following the instructions below you can download official imageDirectly from Microsoft (Do not need to have an account MSDN or Technet to use this method).

How to download Windows 8 ISO directly from Microsoft?

Note that in order to download ISO image a Windows 8 using the instructions described below, you must have a valid license code for this operating system.

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  • click on it and download setup utility (Windows NEVER Setup)
  • run the setup utility and enter the license code for Windows 8 (This step is only necessary if you want to download images to a computer with Windows 7; on a computer with Windows 8 installed, this step is skipped) to get started downloading installation image
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  • when the download is complete, the image files will be checked (the process may take several minutes)
  • After checking the files, the setup utility will provide opportunities 3 system installation, select Install by creating media and click on Next
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  • depending on your preference, you can select creating a bootable USB Stick using option USB flash drive (Make sure you have no important files on it, because you will lose the stick should be at least 4GB) or you can click save as ISO file computer (iso-file)
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  • select the location where you want to save the installation image Windows 8 and the setup utility will start ISO image creation
Preparing ISO

Once created the image, you can use either to create a Installation DVDOr a Bootable USB Stick, Which you can then use to (Re) install / repair Windows 8 (Of course you will also need license code used to download the ISO image).

Note: Using this method, the downloaded ISO image will have the same architecture as the system it is downloaded from (if the system you use the setup utility to download the ISO image is on 32 bits, on 32 bits it will be the installation image of Windows 8; the same thing applies to 64-bits)

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