How to Install Windows XP professional (Service Pack 2)?

How to Install Windows XP professional (Service Pack 2)?

• Start your PC & place your widows 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 start booting from the CD. You will get the following screen.)

                  Set up is in inspecting your computer's hardware configuration.

• You will then get a windows XP professional setup screen. You have the option to do a new windows install, repair previous or quit. since we are doing a new install we just press enter to continue.

• You will be presented with the end user licensing agreement. Press F8 key to accept and continue.

• This step is very important. Here we will create the partition where windows will be installed. We can also delete the partition at a same time.

• Select partition 1 (C:) Drive and press Enter key.

• Choose format the partition using NTFS file system. This is the recommended file system if the hard disk has been formatted before then you can choose quick NTFS format. We choose NTFS because it offers many security features supports larger drive size, and bigger size files.

• Press Enter key windows will new start formatting Drive C: and start copying set up files on the two images: Set up is formatting and set up is copying files.

• After the set up has completed coping the files the computer will automatically restart. Leave the XP CD in the drive but this time do not press any key when the message. "Press any key boot from CD" is displayed. In few second setup will continue. Windows through the setup process of gathering information about your computer.

• Choose your region and language.

• Type in your name or organization.

• Enter your product key.

• E.g. VDDF2, JJWM3, X7p27, FRHRT, 8BVHT.

• Name the computer and enter and administrator password. Don't forget to write down your administrator password.

• Enter the correct date, time choose your time zone.

• For the network setting choose "Typical" and Press "next."

• choose work group or domain name. If you are not a member a main then leave the default setting and Press "Next".

• Finally windows will start and present you with a welcome screen.

• Click Next to continue.

• Choose help protect my PC by turning on automatic update now and Press Next.

• Select no this computer will connect directly into the internet option and Click Next.

• Ready to activate windows.

• Choose Yes if you wish to activation over the internet now. Choose know if you want to activation windows at a later stage.

• Add user that will sign on to this computer and Click on Next.

• You will get a thank you screen to conform setup complete and Click Finish.

• Login to your PC for the first time.

• You now need to check the device manager to conform that all the driver has been loaded or , if there are any conflicts.

• From the start menu.

• Select Start-settings-control panel.

• Click on the system icon and then from the system properties window select the hardware tab, then Click on device manager.

•     If there are any yellow exclamation mark "!" next to any of the listed device, it means that no drivers. or incorrect drivers has been loaded for that device. If our case we have a video controller (VGA card) which has no drivers installed.