To install windows XP first take
the back up of all important documents.Suppose
you have four drives in your system (C:,D:,E:,F: ) and your windows in C: drive
so transfer all the important files to other drive if you don’t want to format
the other drives too.Otherwise take the back up in portable harddisk or any
other place you like.
Step 1 - After taking back up
insert a Windows XP CD
in CD/DVD-ROM.Now
restart your computer .After restrating it will show the screen given below.If
it doesn’t show that screen you need to check the boot priority of BIOS.(
TO check the BOOT pririty Hit F12 or delete
after restarting the computer .It will show a blue screen.In that blue screen
find the boot priority tag) .Your PC should automatically detect the CD and
you will get a message saying "Press any key to boot from CD". Soon
as computer starts booting from the CD your will get the following screen:
(Step 2-5 is not compulsory it will not show
if u have SATA harddrive or new version
of windows XP cd)
Step 2 - At this stage it will ask you
to press F6 if you want to install a third party Raid or SCSI driver. If
you are using a an IDE Hard Drive then you do not need to press F6. If
you are using a SCSI or SATA Hard drive then you must press F6
otherwise Windows will not detect your Hard Drive during the
installation. Please make sure you have the Raid drivers on a floppy
disk. Normally the drivers are supplied on a CD which you can copy to a
floppy disk ready to be installed. If you are not sure how to do this
then please read your motherboard manuals for more information.
Step 3 - Press S to Specify that you want to install
additional device.
Step 4 - You will be asked to insert the floppy disk with
the Raid or SCSI drivers. Press enter after you have inserted the disk.
Step 5 - You will see a list of Raid drivers for your HDD.
Select the correct driver for your device and press enter.
(Step 2-5 is not compolsury it will not show
if u have SATA harddrive or new version
of windows XP cd)
Step 6 - You will then get a Windows XP Professional Setup
screen. You have the option to do a new Windows install, Repair previous
install or quit. Since we are doing a new install we just press Enter to
continue.
Step 7 - You will be presented with the End User Licensing
Agreement. Press F8 to accept and continue
If you want to create a partition then follow step-8 and step 9. This
will be need only if you are set up your hard disk first time .You can make a
partition after set up also by using partitionmaster software
Step 8 - This step is very important. Here we will create
the partition where Windows will be installed. If you have a brand new
unformatted drive you will get a screen similar to below. In our case the drive
size is 8190MB. We can choose to install Windows in this drive without creating
a partition, hence use the entire size of the drive. If you wish to do this you
can just press enter and Windows will automatically partition and format the
drive as one large drive.
However for this demonstration I will create two partition. The first
partition will be 6000MB (C: drive) and second partition would be 2180MB (E:
drive). By creating two partition we can have one which stores Windows and
Applications and the other which stores our data. So in the future if anything
goes wrong with our Windows install such as virus or spyware we can re-install
Windows on C: drive and our data on E: drive will not be touched.(As said in the
starting) Please note you can choose whatever size partition your like. For
example if you have 500GB hard drive you can have two partition of 250GB each.
Press C to create a partition.
Step 9 - Now you will see both partition listed. Partition
1 (C: Drive) 6000MB and Partition 2 (E: Drive) 2180MB. You will also have 8MB
of unpartitioned space. Don't worry about that. Just leave it how its is.
Windows normally has some unpartitioned space. You might wonder what happened
to D: drive. Windows has automatically allocated D: drive to CD/DVD-ROM.
Select Partition 1 (C: Drive) and press Enter.
If you want to create a partition then follow step-8 and step 9. This
will be need only if you are set up your hard disk first time .You can make a
partition after set up also by using partitionmaster software
Step 10 - Choose format the partition using NTFS file
system.This is the recommended file system. If the hard drive has been
formatted before then you can choose quick NTFS format.(This is better if yur
drive formatted before). We chose NTFS because it offers many security
features, supports larger drive size, and bigger size files.
Windows will now start formatting drive C: and start copying setup files as
shown on the two images below :
Step 11 - After the setup has completed copying the files
the computer will restart.
Leave the XP CD in the drive but this
time DO NOT press any key when the message "Press any key to boot from
CD" is displayed. In few seconds setup will continue. Windows XP Setup
wizard will guide you through the setup process of gathering information about
your computer.
Step 12 - Choose your region and language.
Step 13 - Type in your name and organization.
Step 14. Enter your product key.
Step 15 - Name the computer, and enter an Administrator
password. Don't forget to write down your Administrator password.
Step 16 - Enter the correct date, time and choose your time
zone.
Step 17 - For the network setting choose typical and press
next.
Step 18 - Choose workgroup or domain name. If you are not a
member of a domain then leave the default settings and press next. Windows will
restart again and adjust the display.
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After that Windows XP will spend 20 or 30
minutes configuring your computer and will automatically restart when
finished. When the Display Settings dialog appears, click OK.
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When the Monitor Settings
dialog box appears, click OK.
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Step 19 - Finally Windows will start and present you with a
Welcome screen. Click next to continue.
Step 20 - Choose
'help protect my PC by turning on
automatic updates now' and press next.
Step 21 - Will this computer connect to the internet
directly, or through a network? If you are connected to a router or LAN then
choose:
'Yes, this computer will connect through a local area network or
home network'. If you have dial up modem choose:
'No, this computer
will connect directly to the internet'. Then click Next.
Step 22 - Ready to activate Windows? Choose yes if you wish
to active Windows over the internet now. Choose no if you want to activate
Windows at a later stage.
Step 23 - Add users that will sign on to this computer and
click next.
Step 24 - You will get a Thank you screen to confirm setup
is complete. Click finish.
Step 25. Log in, to your PC for the first time.
The steps are given below are not compulsary.You can do it by
putting Mather board CD.
Step 26 - You now need to check the device manager to
confirm that all the drivers has been loaded or if there are any conflicts.
From the start menu select
Start -> Settings -> Control Panel.
Click on the
System icon and then from the
System
Properties window select the
Hardware tab, then click
on
Device Manager.
If there are any yellow exclamation mark "
!" next
to any of the listed device, it means that no drivers or incorrect drivers has
been loaded for that device. In our case we have a Video Controller (VGA card)
which has no drivers installed.
Your hardware should come with manufacturer supplied drivers. You need to
install these drivers using the automatic setup program provided by the
manufacturer or you need to manually install these drivers. If you do not have
the drivers, check the manufacturers website to download them.
To install a driver manually use the following procedure:
(a) From the device manager double click on the device
containing the exclamation mark.
(b) This would open a device properties window.
(c) Click on the
Driver tab.
(d) Click Update Driver button. The Wizard for updating
device driver pops up as shown below:
You now get two options. The first option provides an automatic search for
the required driver. The second option allows you to specify the location of
the driver. If you don't know the location of the driver choose the automatic
search which would find the required driver from the manufacturer supplied CD
or Floppy disk. Windows would install the required driver and may ask you to
restart the system for the changes to take affect. Use this procedure to
install drivers for all the devices that contain an exclamation mark. Windows
is completely setup when there are no more exclamation marks in the device
manager.
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