Installing Windows 8 beta on the Samsung BUILD Slate
The following procedure is for people who were at the BUILD event and got a nice Samsung Slate device with Windows 8 Developer Preview, now wanting to install Windows 8 Consumer Preview on it:
- Download the x64 ISO on a Windows 7 machine:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso - Create a USB bootable drive with it using the “Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool”:
http://wudt.codeplex.com/ - Reboot the build tablet holding down the Windows key
- Go to troubleshooting, advanced options, command line
- Switch to your USB drive (like D:)
- Run Setup.exe
- Use product key: DNJXJ-7XBW8-2378T-X22TX-BKG7J
- Enjoy!