Part 1: Copy Windows 8 Installation Files to Hard Drive It also works with Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 7. This method requires you to create a bootable hard drive from Windows 8 ISO image, so you can then install Windows 8 without formatting. But, what to do if you don’t have a USB drive in hand, or your optical drive doesn’t work properly? Here we’ll show you how to install Windows 8 directly from a hard drive, without using a CD or USB drive. With Hyper-V we can change our firewall rules to allow us to copy files to a chosen installation folder, copy the ISO to the server, and then we can point the DVD drive of the guest virtual machine to use the ISO image file located in the directory we created containing our ISO image.It’s super easy to install Windows 8 from a USB drive or a CD/DVD. Having ISO media for use in installing our guest operating system is perhaps the easiest way to quickly access the installation files. Netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="File and Printer Sharing" new enable=No Thoughts Now you can simply copy and past ISO images to the newly created folder.Īfter we have copied the ISO image to the server, as you can see on the guest virtual machine below, we can point the DVD Drive to the Image file and browse to our folder that we created on the root of the D: drive.įinally, we can disable the file and printer sharing firewall rules we allowed above if we choose to do that by simply changing our "Yes" to a "No". In the test environment below, a folder called ISOs has been created. Once, you are connected to the Hyper-V drive share, you can create a folder for the ISOs if you want. If we want to copy the ISO file to a folder on the D:\ drive on our host, we can simply map a network drive to the D$ admin share. To copy over the ISO file, we can simply map a network drive to our Hyper-V host. Netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="File and Printer Sharing" new enable=Yes To enable file and printer sharing in the firewall, run the following command on the Hyper-V host.
The easiest way to get the ISO file to our Hyper-V host is to allow file and print sharing firewall rules, copy our ISO file to the host, and then disable file and printer sharing in the firewall rules of our Hyper-V host firewall if we choose. The process to copy our ISO file to Hyper-V host is fairly simple.
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