I have been searching the internet ruthlessly trying to find the answer to this.
Heres my dilemma: I have a 1tb hdd of a single partition with 500gb or so of data I do not want to remove and have no means of backing up. I have the iso of windows 8 and would like to, on a brand new build, boot from the hdd without formatting the drive.
Now, ive been reading around and all I can find is that its impossible to do this without completely wiping the drive. Now ive also been reading that you can very easily create new partitions on a drive by simply using the disk management tool in windows. Can I not just create a new partition on the drive, say, 10gb , and make this volume bootable with winfows 8 whilst keeping all my data intact on the original volume?
Any help would be appreciated!
I can just pick up a dvd real quick to burn to if this is not possible.
Heres my dilemma: I have a 1tb hdd of a single partition with 500gb or so of data I do not want to remove and have no means of backing up. I have the iso of windows 8 and would like to, on a brand new build, boot from the hdd without formatting the drive.
Now, ive been reading around and all I can find is that its impossible to do this without completely wiping the drive. Now ive also been reading that you can very easily create new partitions on a drive by simply using the disk management tool in windows. Can I not just create a new partition on the drive, say, 10gb , and make this volume bootable with winfows 8 whilst keeping all my data intact on the original volume?
Any help would be appreciated!
I can just pick up a dvd real quick to burn to if this is not possible.
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