Metro is designed to run on Windows 8 and Visual Studio 20212. You can use Diskpart (the Windows 7 command-line tool) along with the Windows Automated Installation Kit to install an instance of Windows 8 in parallel with your current system.
You need 1 ISO; http://www.microsoft.com/sv-se/download/details.aspx?id=5753
2 Automated Inst Kit: http://www.microsoft.com/sv-se/download/details.aspx?id=5753
3 About one to two hours (depending on your account from the settings of the visual studio).
The result will be a file on your disk, which is about 50-60 GB. After the installation is complete, the bootloader will provide you with both the current version of Windows and Windows 8.
You may not want to waste time setting it up, so this may not be the answer you want to see. Which I fully understand. However, there are several advantages to using the full Windows 8 environment. I can enter more details about this if necessary.
Diskpart can be used as follows:
create vdisk file=c:\VHD\Win8.vhd maximum=60000 type=expandable select vdisk file=c:\VHD\Win8.vhd attach vdisk create partition primary assign letter=v
After that, you can see the actual file in which there is space for your virtual disk. In the source folder of the unzipped ISO file, you can find install.wim. This file will be used with the next unattended installation tool.
imagex /info i:\sources\intall.wim imagex /apply i:\sources\install.wim 1 v:\
Which will create a silent installation from the unpacked ISO to the boot disk. Finally, a virtual boot file should be added as an additional boot
C:\Windows\System32\bcdboot v:\Windows
When you reboot and select Windows 8, Windows 8 installation will continue from the Metro project. Although after entering the product key. The best part of this is that although in Windows 8 you still have full access to the current Windows drive.
Please note ! This is a brief description of the process that makes installing Windows 8 without affecting the current Windows, except that it takes up a lot of disk space.