How to Install Windows XP
9:03 PM Edit This 0 Comments »Hi, This is a simple procedure for Installing Windows XP (Home or Professional Edition) even for those without much experience working with computers. This post is like assuming that you are installing Windows XP directly from a disc onto a clean, unpartitioned, unformatted hard drive, and that all computer components are installed and working correctly.
Minimum System requirements for installing Windows XP:
- 300 Mhz Intel or AMD CPU
- 128 Megabytes of system RAM (It can work with 64 Megabytes of RAM but its not recommended)
- 1.5 Gigabytes of available drive space
- Super VGA 800x600 Display Adapter
- CD or DVD-ROM
- Keyboard and mouse, or other pointing devices
- Network Interface Adapter required for Internet and Network Connectivity
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cases by presing DEL or F2 on system startup) and select your primary boot device CDrom. Insert the Windows XP
Installation Disc and start your computer. When prompted to "Press any key to boot from
CD," press a key on the keyboard.
Installation:
The installation program will check your hardware, install default-set drivers, and load
files necessary for installation. When arriving at the "Welcome
to Setup" screen, Press ENTER to begin the installation process.
You can press F6 if you need to install additional SCSI adapters or other mass-storage devices. If you do you will be asked to supply a floppy disk with the drivers and you CANNOT browse it (or a CD for that matter). Make sure you have one handy.
If you want, you can press F2 to run the ASR sequence. For that you need a good backup created by the Windows XP backup program, and the ASR floppy disk. If you plan to install a new copy of XP - don't do anything.
Setup will load all the needed files and drivers.Select To Setup Windows XP Professional Now. If you want, and if you have a previous installation of XP, you can try to fix it by pressing R. If not, just press ENTER.
Read and accept the licensing agreement and press F8 if you accept it.
Select or create the partition on which you will install Windows XP Professional. Depending upon your existing disk configuration choose one of the following:
If the hard disk is unpartitioned, you can create and size the partition on which you will install Windows XP Professional.
- If the hard disk is already partitioned, but has enough unpartitioned disk space, you can create an additional partition in the unpartitioned space.
- If the hard disk already has a partition that is large enough, you can install Windows XP Professional on that partition. If the partition has an existing operating system, you will overwrite that operating system if you accept the default installation path. However, files other than the operating system files, such as program files and data files, will not be overwritten.
- If the hard disk has an existing partition, you can delete it to create more unpartitioned space for the new partition. Deleting an existing partition erases all data on that partition.
If you select a new partition during Setup, create and size only the partition on which you will install Windows XP Professional. After installation, use Disk Management to partition the remaining space on the hard disk.
Select a file system for the installation partition. After you create the partition on which you will install Windows XP Professional, you can use Setup to select the file system with which to format the partition. Windows XP Professional supports the NTFS file system in addition to the file allocation table (FAT) and FAT32 file systems. Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000, and Windows NT are the only Microsoft operating systems that you can use to gain access to data on a local hard disk that is formatted with NTFS. If you plan to gain access to files that are on a local Windows XP Professional partition with the Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows 98 operating systems, you should format the partition with a FAT or FAT32 file system. We will use NTFS.
Setup will then begin copying necessary files from the installation point (CD, local I386 or network share).
The computer will restart in graphical mode, and the installation will continue.
The setup process reboots and loads a GUI mode phase.
It will then begin to load device drivers based upon what it finds on your computer. You don't need to do anything at this stage.
Click Customize to change regional settings, if necessary.It is not neccesary as mostly all the computers have same model.
Type your name and organization.
Type the product key.
Type the computer name and a password for the local Administrator account. The local Administrator account resides in the SAM of the computer, not in Active Directory. If you will be installing in a domain, you need either a pre-assigned computer name for which a domain account has been created, or the right to create a computer account within the domain.
Select the date, time, and time zone settings.
Next the setup process will finish copying files and configuring the setup. You do not need to do anything.
After the copying and configuring phase is finished, if XP finds that you have a badly configured screen resolution it will advise you to change it and ask you if you see the new settings right.
Setup will now install the networking components.Then windows setup appears in which select typical settings and select next, select next at workgroup and the installation will continue.
Setup finishes and boots Windows XP.
A Welcome screen is the first thing you see. The computer checks your Internet connectivity (required for the mandatory Activation and voluntary Registration processes).
You will be asked to register your copy of XP. You can decline if you want.
XP will ask you for the default username that will log onto this computer. You can enter as many as 5 users, but you can create more after the installation is finished.
That's it! you're done!
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