Am I getting Win-8 fever?

Today, I found myself making various preparations, like dividing my hard-drive  into two partitions, so I could install Win-8's test version on the empty one.

And then I got reading one of those expert's opinion sites, and learned that the Win-8 program will have a new virtualization feature which makes use of something called 'Hyper-V' in your processor, if yours has that. Then it told us how to find out. You go onto this website and download Coreinfo v3.04, which is a Command Prompt executable that will tell you the various features and info on your CPU. To use it, activate the Command Prompt in Administrator mode, and to get a list of the various action codes, after the flashing cursor, just type in coreinfo /? and hit enter. That should bring up a list of its features for you. To question the virtualization features, type in coreinfo -v after the cursor. If it shows you an asterisk with details, you've got the feature it needs.

And if you're like me and have a large hard-drive mostly unused, and you would like to turn it into two separate ones, you should get a copy of the EaseUs Partition Manager from this website, and you should look for the Home Edition which is free for home users. This freebie does everything you'll need, and you can resize an existing partition by clicking and dragging the end of it, as long as you don't intrude onto the used parts. It has a nice user interface to help you.

Also if you split your drive into two partitions, you should get EasyBCD from its website, so that you can easily edit the Boot Configuration Data to show your new partition, and choose which one is to boot first. This is easier than going into the computer's hidden boot section. But you don't use it until you have something to put onto that partition, because you wouldn't want to try booting  into an empty partition, needless to say.

Now, if you did all that, and you had that ISO of Win-8, you'd also need to have something like ImgBurn, the freebie burning program, which can turn that ISO file into a suitable DVD which you then put into your DVD Player to install it on your computer. Then, after you get it installed onto that empty partition, you can use the EasyBCD to edit the data for your preferred booting setup, and you're ready to try out the new Windows 8. But not for another eleven days.... we have to get that ISO file first.