HOW TO FORMAT A COMPUTER USING A WINDOW XP DISC
1.First you must put your Windows XP CD in the drive.
2.Then restart your computer.
3.When it says press any key to boot from cd, Press any key on the keyboard.(Go to step 6)
4.If it doesn't ask you this then restart your computer again.
5.Go
into the BIOS settings of your PC,usually by pressing the F1,F2,F10,or
maybe the delete key. If you are not sure watch the screen at startup
and it will say "To enter setup press.......". You have to be quick and
press it. If you miss it
restart again. Once you are in the bios you
have to change the boot options. You have to make your cd rom the first
boot option. Save and exit.
6.A blue screen will appear and you are on your way.
7.Press Enter to setup Windows XP now.See screenshot above.
8.If
there is a copy of Windows XP on your computer and you wish to
overwrite it you will have to press the escape button when prompted.
(screenshot below)Do not install Windows XP in another directory unless
you know what you are doing. Just overwrite the previous version as you
should have backed up your data anyway.
9.You should now make the
partition that had windows on it blue and press D to delete the
partition. It will ask if you are sure. Press L to confirm. More details
on deleting
partitions.
10.Then Press C to create another
partition and Windows will estimate a size for you.If you wanted to
partition your hard drive into two equal parts you would have to do some
math's and then type the
appropriate number in. Otherwise just going with what Windows puts there will be the minimum partition size.
11.Press Enter to confirm size.
12.Then
it will ask you which partition you want to install Windows on. The
default is C drive.Select this by making it blue and press enter.
13.If there are no partitions it will create one for you.
14.Then
it will ask you to format quick,normal,in fat32 or NTFS.Fat32 suits
older computers so I choose a quick format with NTFS.Quick or Slow is
fine.If you had errors it is better to use a slow format which can also
be known as a low level format.
15.From now on you just Follow the prompts and let it go..
16.The
computer will restart and it will try to boot from cd again...Do not
press anything on the keyboard.. Just let it go through the stages of
setup.
17.Make sure you have your serial number ready to enter
in.This can be found on your coa certificate which is a sticker usually
written on your Cd park.
18.Do not remove the Windows XP CD until the computer has started up with a new desktop and icons.
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