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Want to test the wild new waters of Windows 8 but don't want to lose your current Windows setup? You can do this with the Windows 8 installer, which can create a multi-boot setup. I've been running one of my test PCs at PCMag this way for several months, and the clear new-style (we can't use the term Metro anymore) multiboot menu dutifully appears whenever I restart the system. Setting up such a system isn't hard at all, as long as you prepare for this kind of installation. One note off the bat though: The multi-boot setup only works with Windows 7 and Vista: You can't set up a multi-boot system with Windows XP, let alone Ubuntu. There are any number of third-party multi-boot tools, such as the excellent EasyBCD, which may work with those, but we'll stick to the built-in way of creating multi-boot with   Windows 8 . STEP 1: BACK UP! Before you attempt this, however, you should back up your existing Windows PC. You never know what will happen when instal...