Windows Installation Guide
1. power on your computer
2. Open CD-ROM drive and place your Windows XP Install disk on to the tray. Close the drive.
3. If you already have an operating system installed you need to press F-8 to boot from the installation CD before the loading screen for that particular operating system appears. If you have Windows XP then it needs to be pressed before the black screen with the Windows XP Symbol and the scrolling bar.
4. This will bring you to a blue screen that says Welcome to Setup, at this point press enter to begin your installation of Windows XP
5. Next is the User License agreement (also a blue screen). Here, press F-8 to agree to the terms. If you dont, you cannot install Windows XP
6. The next stage will ask you to either delete an already existing copy of your operation system, or to install a new copy of Windows XP if there is nothing on the computer already.
a. If there is already a copy on your computer, highlight the selection that says:
C: partition1 [NTFS] somenumber MB
And press D to delete it, and then L to accept the delete. When that is complete, press ENTER to install Windows.
b. If there is no previous Windows Installation, press ENTER.
7. On the next screen that says A new partition of Windows XP has been created there will be a list of four choices that start with Format the partition using NTFS/FAT file systems, two are fallowed by (quick) and two are now. Select the NTFS file system WITHOUT the (quick) extension and press enter.
8. After windows is done with the next screen (deleting old windows files and copying new ones) your computer will restart.
9. After the restart of your computer, do not boot off of the CD again, just continue with the installation. This stage is very simple; it involves naming your computer and setting your time zone. Once you are done with this setup stage, Windows will restart and then boot up normally.
10. You now have a full installation of Windows XP on your computer. The final stage would be downloading Windows Service Pack 2 from the Windows website (www.windowsupdate.com) if you have internet. Then lastly, installing the drivers for the different components on your computer.