How to Install Windows XP on your PC

Windows XP is an operating system most widely used today because of its ease of use. Windows XP is generally used as a standard of learning in use by schools and colleges.

To do windows xp installation required accuracy and patience in the process, because it requires a fairly long time.

There are several types of windows xp are often used, such as Windows XP Professional, Home Edition, Media Center Edition, Tablet PC Edition, Starter Edition, Professional x64 Edition, Professional 64-bit Edition For Itanium.

The following steps are easy and complete way to install windows xp :

Prepare WINDOWS XP CD to begin the installation process
Prepare MOTHERBOARD DRIVER CD that will be required when the installation is complete
Set bios boot priority order starting from the CD (DVD)-ROM, how ?
- Enter the BIOS by pressing Del or F1 or F2 as well. Select the Advanced Settings menu, then look for the ‘Boot Priority’ or similar.
- Change its setting, so that the CDROM so the first order. possible choices are 2 types
  - menu ‘First boot priority’, ‘Second boot priority’ etc.: Set ‘First boot priority’ to CDROM ‘by pressing the PgDn / PgUp (Page Down / Up) or + / -. Set also’ Second boot priority’nya to HDD0 / HDD1.
  - If the menu is’ Boot priority ‘: set to’ CDROM, C, A ‘or’ CDROM, A,
  - by pressing the PgDn / Up.
Wait a few moments until it says on the screen “press any key to boot from CD” as the look like the picture below
Press ENTER or any key, then the installation process will check your computer hardware, then you will see the words “windows setup” as shown below
then the files on the cd will be loaded into the computer, then the display will show “welcome to setup” as shown below
Press “ENTER” to install windows xp, “R” to repair windows system that had previously been installed, “F3” to exit the installation process, and will appear (End User Licese Aggrement) as shown below
Press “F8” then the installation process will find and read your hard disk partitions, then you will see all your hard disk partitions, as shown below
Press “ENTER” to directly install the windows, “C” to make your hard disk partitions, adjust the partition with the capacity you need, in units of MB, then if you create a partition by pressing the “C”, then the image will appear as belowini
Then write the capacity of the partition you want to create, as shown in the image above, for example, suppose your hard drive capacity of 40 GB, then you want to divide by two, then write 20000, not 20, because unit MB partition, of course I’m sure you understand.
Then press “ENTER” will appear as below
Then choose “format the partition using the NTFS file system (Quick)” or “format the partition using the NTFS file system (Quick)” and press “ENTER” will display the screen as shown below
Then point your pointer to “unpartitioned space”, then press “C” will display the image as the previous image, in this case the screen will appear as shown previously showed the rest of the partitions you for, if you just divide 2 partitions only, immediately press “ENTER” but if you want to partition your hard drive again the rest of her then repeat the previous steps. after completion of the partition when you press “ENTER” as explained on top, then the image will appear just as the picture above, after which point the poiter at position C: partition1 [New Raw], but it is usually already in that position, then you simply press “ENTER” only for the installation of windows, then you will see the format as shown below
Once the format is complete, then the windows will, copy the file to the installation process, as shown below
After the copying process is complete, the computer will automatically restart as shown below, in this case to speed up the process of restarting, you can simply press “ENTER”
After loading windows it will appear like the picture below
The next installation of windows in the range 1 .. 2 .. 3 … and so on screen appears as shown below
The next screen will appear as shown below
Click on the “NEXT“ and then the screen appear as shown below
Fill in your name and organization, then press “NEXT” then the screen will appear as shown below
Enter the serial number. Then press the “Next” button will appear next administrator screen, fill in as you want. Fill in your passwords as well, according to what you want.
Enter the time and date settings, specify the time zone, after the installation of windows continued, as shown below
Please wait, until the screen appears as shown below
The next screen will display the work group or domain computer, as shown below
if your computer is connected to a domain, then enter the domain name, but if you stand alone computer, then select the radio button at the top, then press “Next”
Next will come the display settings, as shown below, just click “OK” only
Then Windows will detect the optimal display of your PC, as shown in the figure below, simply click “OK“ only
The installation process is almost complete. The next window will appear loading windows as shown below
Next you will be brought into the windows for the first time as shown in the figure below, simply press the “Next” only
The next screen will display the “Help Protect Your PC”, as shown below, then select “Not Right Now” and press “Next”
Then the computer will check the connection to the Internet, as shown in the figure below, select “Yes” and press “Next”
Then will appear the windows activation option, as shown below, then press “Next”
After that will appear like the picture below, which shows the user the option to add a computer, you can insert a few users who will access your computer, but if one account is enough, or you install a computer to be used interchangeably, just enter a user then click “Next“
Windows installation process is complete, then the screen will appear as shown below, click “Finish“, then the installation process is complete …..
It’s finished all …. then slowly get into windows as shown in the picture below
Then just install the motherboard driver CD, and other supporting devices ….