2. Before the installation process
undertake, a technician must be
aware of the minimum
requirements of a computer
hardware that is compatible with
the operating system to be
installed.
3. Following the systems’ requirements means an
efficient computer system.
The list below shows the windows 10/11
minimum requirements for installation:
Pentium 233 Mhz or compatible processor or
faster; 300MHZ or faster recommended
4GB of RAM minimum; 128GB or more
recommended
500GB disk space or more
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM
Keyboard and mouse
6. • If you see a message about press
any key to boot the Removable
Flash Disk, do so now. Otherwise,
you will see a message about Setup
inspecting your system.
9. • In the first stage of setup; you
will see a series of blue and gray
MS-DOS-based screens.
• In the first step, you will be
asked to press F6 if you need to
install any third-party or RAID
drivers.
12. • Finally, Setup begins. In this step, you
can set up 10, launch the Recovery
Console (another, more complicated
system recovery tool), or quit.
• Press ENTER to continue Setup, and
it will examine your hard drives and
removable disks.
15. • Next, you'll have to agree to
Microsoft's complex licensing
agreement. Among the highlights:
You don't actually ownWindows
and you can only install it on one
PC.
• Hit F8,F9 OR F12 to continue.
18. • This crucial step lets you choose where to
installWindows 10.
• On a clean install, you will typically install to
the C: drive, but you might have other ideas,
especially if you plan to dual-boot with 9x.
• Setup will show you all of your available disks
(in this case, just one) and let you create and
delete partitions as needed. So, for example, if
you have one disk, but would like to create two
partitions, one forWindows 10 and one for
your data, you can do that here.
21. • If you created a new partition, or wish to
change the file system of an existing partition,
you can do so in the next step. NTFS (New
Technology File System) file system is more
secured than FAT (File Allocation System).
• Regardless of which file system you choose,
be sure to select one of the "quick" format
options (the top two choices), if you do need
to format, since these will work much more
quickly than a full format.
24. • If you did choose to change or format the file
system, this will occur next. First, you'll be asked to
verify the format. If you're installing XP on a
system with more than one partition, especially one
that still holds your data on one of the partitions,
be sure you're formatting the correct partition.
• Hit F to continue, and a yellow progress bar will
indicate the status of the format.When this is
complete, Setup will again examine your disks, and
create a list of files to copy.
27. • Setup will now copy system files to the system/boot
partition(s) you just created.This will allow the PC to
boot from the C: drive and continue Setup in GUI
mode.
• When the file copy is complete, Setup will initialize
and save your XP configuration.
• It will then reboot your PC.When the system reboots,
you will probably see the "Press any key to boot from
CD" message again. If this happens, do not press a key:
Setup will now boot from your C: drive. In the event
that you cannot prevent the CD-based Setup from
reloading, eject the CD and reboot. Setup will ask for
the CD when needed.
30. • Once the system reboots, you will be
presented with the GUI Setup phase, which
is much more attractive than the DOS-
mode phase. As you progress through GUI
Setup, you can read promotional
information on the right side of the screen
about XP.
• Next, your hardware devices are detected.
This could take several minutes.
33. • In the first interactive portion of GUI
Setup, you can choose to customize the
regional and language settings that will be
used by XP, as well as the text input
language you'd like. Users in the United
States will not normally need to change
anything here.
• Click Next to continue.
36. • Now, enter your name and your
company.The name you enter is not
the same as your user name,
incidentally, so you should enter
your real name here (i.e. Rosalie
Lujero or whatever).
• Click Next to continue.
40. • Now you must enter the 25-character
product key that is located on the orange
sticker found on the back of the CD holder
that came withWindows XP.You cannot
install XP without a valid product key.
Later on, you will be asked to activate and
optionally register your copy of Windows
XP. A product key can be used to install XP
on only one PC.
• Click Next to continue.
42. In the next phase of Setup, you can
create a name for your computer
(which is used to identify it on a
network) and, optionally in Pro
Edition only, a password for the
system Administrator, the person who
controls the PC (this will generally be
you, of course).
45. • Next, you can supply the date and
time, which are auto-set based on
information in your BIOS, and the
time zone, which is irritatingly set to
PST, which is where Microsoft is.
Change these as appropriate.
• Click Next to continue.
48. If you have a networking card or
modem, Setup now install the
networking components, which include
the client for Microsoft networks, File
and Print Sharing, the Quality of Service
(QoS) Packet Scheduler, and theTCP/IP
networking protocol by default.
51. • In this phase, you can choose to keep the
default settings (recommended) or enter
custom settings.
Note that XP doesn't include the legacy NetBEUI
protocol out of the box. If you want to use this
protocol, you will need to install it later from the XP.
• Click Next to continue.
54. • InWindows XP Professional only, you will
be able to select a workgroup or domain
name next. Home Edition doesn't work
withWindows domains, however, and
Setup will automatically supply the
workgroup name MSHOME, which you
can change later.The default workgroup
name in XP Pro is, imaginatively,
WORKGROUP.
• Click Next to continue.
57. • From this point on, Setup will continue to
completion without any further need for
interaction. Setup will now copy files, complete
installation, install your Start Menu items, register
system components, save settings, remove any
temporary files needed by Setup, and then reboot.
• Again, you will probably see the "Press any key to
boot from CD" message on reboot. If this
happens, do not press a key, and your new XP
install will boot up.You can remove the XP Setup
CD now.
60. You’ll be greeted by the XP splash
screen on first boot (this actually
appears briefly when you rebooted
into GUI Setup as well).The
splash screens for XP Pro and
Home are subtly different.
63. • Users with CRT monitors and some LCDs (such as
laptops and flat panel displays) will see a Display Settings
dialog appear, which asks whether you'd like XP to
automatically set the resolution.This will generally change
the resolution from 800 x 600 to 1024 x 768 on a CRT
monitor, or to the native resolution of an LCD display.
• Click OK and let XP change the resolution.Then, accept
the settings if the screen display changes and can be read.
If you can't see the display, it will time out after 30
seconds and return to the sub-optimal 800 x 600
resolution.
• Click OK to accept the screen resolution change.
66. • Now, you are presented with
XP's "Out of Box Experience,"
or OOBE, which presents a silly
wizard to guide you through the
final set up of your PC.
• Click Next to continue.
69. • In the opening OOBE phase, you are asked to set up
your network/Internet connection, which is required for
activation and registration. If you selected the default
networking configuration during Setup and know it will
work (because you're connected directly to a cable
modem, perhaps, or are on a local area network), then
select Yes (the default). Otherwise, you can select No
and then Skip.
• We'll assume that your network is up and running and
select Yes.
• Click Next to continue.
72. • If you selectedYes in the previous step, you
are asked if you'd like to activateWindows
XP.This will tie your copy of XP to the
current PC semi-permanently. Activation
requires a connection to the Internet, but you
can perform this step later if you want (and
don't worry, XP will annoyingly remind you
of this fact every time you boot the machine
until you do so).
75. • Now, you can set up the user names of the people who
will be using the PC.You will want at least one user (for
you), since you shouldn't be logging on as Administrator.
Curiously, each user you do create here has administrative
privileges, however, and no password.You should set up
your users correctly with passwords as soon as possible.
• This phase lets you create up to five users.You can
create more later, or manage users, using the User
Accounts tool in Control Panel.
• Click Finish when done creating users. At this point,
OOBE ends and you're reading to go.
• Click Finish again.
78. Click your name, that account will
logon and you'll be presented with the XP
desktop. After you create passwords,
however, you'll be asked to enter a
password before you can logon.