How to Format & Reinstall Win Xp

How to Format & Reinstall Win Xp

First Step : CPU Start or press F1 Key Or Del Key and This figure Shown.

All versions of Windows XP CD are bootable. In order to boot from CD/DVD-ROM you need to set the boot sequence. Look for the boot sequence under your BIOS setup and make sure that the first boot device is set to CD/DVD-ROM. You can then perform the following steps to install Windows XP:

Change Boot Sequence exm. First Boot device CD/Dvd Room

And Save & exit

Step 1 – Restart your PC and place your Windows XP CD in your CD/DVD-ROM drive. 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:

Press any key from keyboard

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 – Press Enter to Continue .

Step 5 – You will be presented with the End User Licensing Agreement. Press F8 to accept and continue

Step 6 – 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 4000MB (C: drive) and second partition would be 4000MB (D: 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 D: drive will not be touched. 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 7 – Windows will show the total size of the hard drive and ask you how much you want to allocate for the partition you are about to create. I will choose 4000MB. You will then get the screen below. Notice it shows C: Partition 1 followed by the size 4000 MB. This indicates the partition has been created. We still have an unpartitioned space of 4182MB. Next highlight the unpartitioned space by pressing down the arrow key. Then press C to create another partition. You will see the total space available for the new partition. Just choose all the space left over, in our case 4182MB.

Step 8 - Now you will see both partition listed. Partition 1 (C: Drive) 4000MB and Partition 2 (D: Drive) 4182MB. 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 E: drive. Windows has automatically allocated E: drive to CD/DVD-ROM.

Select Partition 1 (C: Drive) and press Enter.

Step 9 – 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. 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 :

Copying File

Restart CPU and Booting

Step 10 - 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 11 - Choose your region and language.

Click Next

Step 12 - Type in your name and organization.

Step 13. Enter your product key.

Step 14 - Name the computer, and enter an Administrator password. Don’t forget to write down your Administrator password.

Step 15 - Enter the correct date, time and choose your time zone.

Step 16 – For the network setting choose typical and press next.

Step 17 - Choose workgroup or domain name.(Exmp. NME) 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.

Press OK

Step 18 - Finally Windows will start and present you with a Welcome screen. Click next to continue.

Choose ‘help protect my PC by turning on automatic updates now’ and press next.

Step 19 – 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.

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.