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Posted
on October 12, 2001 by Thomas
McGuire
OS
Installation – Windows 98/Me
After
rebooting enter the BIOS & set your system to boot from
the CD\Floppy drive (Depending on whether or not it supports
Bootable CDs). Save
the changes & restart.
If
you booted up using a Boot disk then ensure you enable
Booting up with CD support when prompted how to start with
the Boot disk. While loading the CD drivers, please note the
drive name assigned to it.
Once
the Command prompt appears simply type in x:\setup.exe,
where x
represents the Drive letter assigned to your CD\DVD drive,
then hit Enter.
Windows 98/Me installation will now begin, simply follow the
on-screen prompts & enter in any requested information,
e.g. Serial Key or Location data for Regional Settings. If
you wish you can change the location of where Windows is
installed, although for sake of convenience simply allow to
install to C:\WINDOWS.
You shouldn't select a different partition to install
Windows onto as this may cause problems in the future,
especially if you decide to Dual Boot at a later date.
If
given the choice of what components to install you should
select Typical
& leave further customising these choices until Windows
is actually installed.
OS
Installation – Windows 2000
After
rebooting enter the BIOS & set your system to boot from
the CD\Floppy drive (Depending on whether or not it supports
Bootable CDs). Save
the changes & restart.
If
you booted up using a Boot disk then ensure you enable
Booting up with CD support when prompted how to start with
the Boot disk. While loading the CD drivers, please note the
drive name assigned to it.
When
prompted hit ENTER
to Setup
Windows 2000 now.
The next screen will allow you to select which partition to
install Windows 2000 onto, I'd recommend selecting the C:\
partition, as this can circumvent problems that may arise in
the future.
The
next screen will allow you to select File System options for
the partition you selected. Options available being:
Format
the partition using the NTFS file system.
Format
the partition using the FAT file system.
Convert
the partition to NTFS.
Leave
the current file system intact (no changes).
I'd
recommend selecting Leave
the current file system intact (no changes)
as you should have already made your choice regarding the
File System earlier on. Now hit the Enter key.
Windows
2000 installation will now continue,
simply follow the on-screen prompts & enter in any
requested information, e.g. Serial Key or Location data for
Regional Settings. Setup any User accounts as needed during
installation also, although for convenience sake it may be
best to just setup the Administrator account until
you have configured & updated Windows 2000, this will
also avoid any problems with other User accounts not having
permission to take certain actions such as install Drivers
& so on.
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