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Installing windows xp from disk via BIOS. Installing Windows XP. Setting initial parameters

Installing Windows XP is easy! In this article, we give step-by-step instructions on how to install the operating system for beginners.

Elution for each step will help you quickly master the process of installing the operating room Windows systems XP from disk.

What is Windows XP?

Windows XP- this is operating system(OS), production Microsoft released at the end of 2001. Windows XP can be called an improved version of Windows 2000 Professional. After XP came Vista (2007) and Windows 7 (late 2009).

By the beginning of 2011, Windows XP is the most popular operating system in the world and in Russia.

Windows XP has 3 official add-ons, the so-called SP (Service Pack) 1,2,3,4. They supplemented and improved the basic version of the program.

The largest number of different programs and utilities are compatible with the XP operating system.

Why install Windows XP?

Why install Windows at all? When is it necessary to do this?

Typically, Windows XP is installed for two reasons:

1. You bought a computer without a preinstalled operating system.
You will not be able to work with such a computer, because you simply will not find the folders, pictures and files familiar to our eyes, but only a blinking cursor, and of course the BIOS.

2. You are not satisfied with the current operating system.
- You want to install a clean system to get rid of system errors, any garbage, viruses, trash in the form of leftovers, not completely removed, programs.
- You prefer Windows XP to all other OS because of its unique features.

How do I install Windows XP?

Windows XP can be installed in several ways: from a floppy disk, from a CD / DVD disc, from a USB flash drive. We will look at the classic installation of the operating system from disk.

Installing Windows XP is easy! Our step-by-step instruction will help you with this.

1. Preparation.
Prepare: a multiboot disk with Windows XP, a set of drivers for your hardware.
2. The installation process takes place in several stages:

Stage one: BIOS
BIOS is the basic software that launches the initial boot of the computer.

How to enter BIOS: when turning on the computer, press the DEL button (sometimes the F2, F10 or F12 keys, mainly on laptops)

BIOS setup: you need to install boot from CD-ROM. BIOS language is English.
Find the Advanced Setup section, then set First Boot Device from CD-ROM(hints are displayed on the right with which buttons to change the position of devices)

Saving changes to BIOS: press the F10 button, select Y (Yes). The computer will restart, but with the changed settings.

Press F8 to agree and continue installing licensed Windows XP

Select the partition where you want to install Windows.

To create a new partition, use the C key and set the desired size (for XP, the optimal size is at least 15 GB.)
Use the D key to delete the highlighted section.

Perform a quick formatting of your partition, confirming your decision by pressing the F key. Formatting to NTFS will save you from all the entries on the partition of your choice hard disk.

Warning! formatting deletes ALL data from your disk.

Be careful and save the documents you need in advance.

After formatting the hard drive and copying files, the system components are unpacked and installed. During the installation process, the computer will restart several times.

At the 33rd minute, you expose language and regional standards, assign a name and organization name (any)

we enter from the sticker case-insensitively

Stage three: Completing the installation of Windows XP.

Let's configure now working group and domain.

Configuring Windows XP

Preparing the distribution disk is the first step in installing Windows XP. If you already have such a disc on hand, you can skip this step, but if you downloaded an ISO system image from the Internet, you will need it using special programs(Nero Burning ROM, UltraISO and similar) burn it to CD or DVD.

The Windows XP bootable ISO file is a complete system image that contains a complete set of installation data. It does not require any preliminary preparation, but is transferred to the CD unchanged.

Let's consider the process of burning Windows distribution kit to DVD using UltraISO as an example.

Run the application.
Press the keyboard shortcut "Ctrl" + "O" and open Windows ISO Image that you have prepared for transferring to disc.
Click on the "Burn CD Image" icon in the toolbar at the top or press the F7 key.

Insert a blank or rewritable DVD into your optical drive.
Make sure the distribution you need is selected in the Burn Image window. Check the “Check” option if you want the disc quality to be checked after burning. Choose a suitable write speed. Even if your laser drive can write at maximum speed, we recommend choosing medium or low. This will ensure good readability of your disk by any, including old drives.
A rewritable disc must first be erased by clicking on the button of the same name, and you can immediately start writing to a blank disc by clicking “Burn”.

After 20 - 30 minutes, depending on the speed of the drive, the preparation of the installation disc will be completed. You can proceed to the next stage.

How to install Windows XP from disc in the traditional way

Traditional installation is a normal system installation process that requires active user input. Most often, the installation of Windows XP is carried out in the traditional way.

At this stage, we have already prepared everything you need. In order to install Windows from a disk, we only need the disk itself and a computer with an optical drive, on which the system will be installed. If there is no drive, you can use an external one that connects to the USB port.

BIOS setup

To boot a computer from a CD or DVD, you need to designate the CD-ROM drive as the first boot device in the BIOS Setup. To do this, enter the settings menu by pressing the dedicated key (Del, F2 - F12, etc.) immediately after starting the computer. Which one - can be read at the bottom of the motherboard splash screen (displayed on the screen almost immediately after turning on the PC).

Once in the settings, go to the “Boot” or “Advanced BIOS Features” tab - in older versions of Award BIOS. Use the arrow keys to select the laser drive from the list of devices. In our example, it is designated as CD-ROM Drive, but sometimes only hardware models are listed in this list.

After selecting the desired device, press F10 (option to exit the BIOS menu and save the settings).

Boot from disk and installation process of Windows XP

Place the laser disc into the drive and restart your PC. System installation starts with booting Windows files XP in the computer's RAM.

Then Windows will greet you and offer to continue with the installation, exit the program, or restore itself using the Recovery Console. The second and third points do not suit us.

Pressing Enter will continue the installation. The next step will be prompted to accept the Microsoft licensing agreement for using Windows XP.

Next - the choice of hard disk space for the system partition. Let's press "C", which means "Create section".

Let's determine the size of the future drive C. In our example, it is the maximum, but you can set any size, preferably at least 10 Gb.

Now let's look at the list of hard disk partitions and agree to install Windows into one of them by pressing Enter.

Let's format the new partition to NTFS (quick formatting will be fine for us).

And let's wait while the installer copies the distribution files to disk.

After copying is complete, the computer will restart.

Next Windows boot XP will no longer run from a CD or DVD, but from a hard drive. This means that the system bootloader has been successfully created and is working correctly.

From now on, our participation will be required again. Here we will have to specify the default system language, our location and additional languages, if needed (although language packs can be installed later).

Next - your name and organization. The name is required, the organization can be skipped.

Entering the serial number of the Windows distribution kit during the installation process is voluntary. You can always enter it later.

You also need to enter your computer name and administrator password now. The name will be prompted by default, but you can change it. The password can be left blank.

The date, time and time zone are also set at this stage.

We will not assign special network parameters, let them remain with us by default.

Let the name of the working group remain as it is. You can always change it after installation.

This completes the installation. Next, the screen will be configured and one or more user accounts will be created, the first of which will be assigned by the computer administrator. You will also be prompted to activate Windows XP right now.

But now almost everything is really. There are only a few settings left - and the system is ready to go.

Automatic installation of Windows XP

Create an answer file using Windows

Agree, to install the system for about an hour without leaving the computer and constantly clicking "Next", anyone will get bored. To simplify this work for those who have to do this often and for a long time, they came up with a way Windows installations without user intervention. To do this, a script is created in advance - an answer file that contains all the information that the installer needs.

It's time for us to figure out how to create such scenarios. The Windows XP distribution includes a utility Setupmgr.exe which is in the archive deploy.cab stored in the SUPPORTTOOLS folder on the installation disk. Let's extract this utility from disk and run it.

The Installation Manager wizard will help us create the answer file. With its help, we can either create a new or modify an existing script. Since we do not have any blanks, we will select “Create”.

Leave the installation type by default - “ automatic installation”.

The product version is Windows XP Professional.

User Interaction - “Fully Automatic Installation” (unless we plan to change the parameters in the answer file).

Next, select “Install from CD”.

Let's accept the license agreement and move on to filling out the same forms and fields that we filled out when we installed Windows from disk. First window: “Name and Organization”.

Screen options. They can be left as default (use the Windows defaults).

Timezone.

Serial number (required!). Without introducing serial number here, you will not be able to continue building the answer file and installing the system.

The names of the computers on which the unattended installation of Windows XP will be performed using this scenario.

And also: the administrator password, network components, the name of the workgroup or domain where this PC will enter, telephone code countries and cities, locales, language support, initial settings Internet Explorer, Windows installation folder, printers and a number of other settings - in separate windows of the program.

Upon completion of the wizard, a file will be created unattend.txt- this is our script, thanks to which we can install Windows XP completely automatically.

If you are installing from a CD, you will need to rename unattend.txt to winnt.sif.

After you create a response file, you can add your own commands to it, which you can learn more about in this article.

That's probably all. As you can see, there is nothing difficult in installing Windows XP in a script without your own active participation. It remains to save the resulting file in the i386 folder of the distribution disk - in the same place as winnt32.exe - the Windows installer.

If your PC has a floppy drive, you can place the answer file in the root directory of the floppy disk and insert it into your computer during system setup. In this case, the installer will have priority to execute the script from the floppy disk, even if there is another one on the CD, in the i386 folder.

Automation of installation by alternative means

Windows native toolkit isn't the only one-click installation tool. There are third-party applications for this, for example, Advanced Windows Unattended Installer... Scripting with this simple and free program is much faster and easier than Windows tools... The only drawback of Advanced Windows Unattended Installer is the lack of a Russian-language interface.

To use this tool to create a disk that allows you to automatically install on Windows computer XP, you only need to do three steps:

Copy the contents of the Windows distribution to separate folder or mount its ISO image to a virtual drive.

Installing Windows XP, and Windows in general, is a simple process, but a long one.

I will tell you how to do this without resorting to the help of specialists / computer friends. So, the whole process is divided into 3 logical stages:

Stage I: Preparation
Stage II: Installation
Stage III: Setting

Stage I: Preparing to install Windows

Before proceeding with the installation of Windows, you need to copy all important information and settings so as not to lose them.
There are many different ways do this, and I will not consider all the options, but will focus on the most basic ones.

This completes our preparations, and you can proceed directly to the installation.

Stage II: Installing Windows

So, now we are ready and you can proceed directly to the installation.
We insert the disc with our cherished Windows XP into the drive and ... no, we do not install it. Don't even think about installing the Operating System from the Operating System itself! We need to reboot and enter into suspended animation bios (from the word B asic I nput / O utput S ystem). To enter it, you need to press the Del button or F2 if you have a laptop when you boot your computer. Although in some cases you need to press other keys, so see what is written at the bottom of the monitor screen. there will be an inscription like "press del to enter setup".

Finally Windows was installed, you rebooted, now you can pull out installation disk and proceed to the third stage.

Stage III: Configuration after Windows installation

We take out our installation disc and start setting up.

Drivers and what to do about it.
First of all, you need to install drivers so that the computer knows what to do with what, and in general can feel comfortable.
- We insert the disk from the motherboard. It is important for us to install 3 drivers: chipset, audio (audio) and Internet (ethernet). But if the program offers you more, then we agree to such a courtesy and install. Reboot so that the drivers are fully installed.
- If there are no disks, then we remember where we downloaded our drivers from the official sites and install them from there.
- We insert the disk from our video card. As you may (or may not) have noticed, if you drag the windows, you can see that they move in jerks. This indicates that you do not have a video driver installed. So install the video driver from the disk and reboot.
- Then we proceed in the same way and install the rest of the equipment. For example, a scanner, printer, tablet, mouse, keyboard, etc.
Successfully Installed or how to determine if everything is in place
We need to make sure that we haven't forgotten anything and that all the drivers are up correctly. This is not difficult to do. Go to Control Panel -> System -> Hardware -> Device Manager... As you can see, here we have all our installed hardware listed. If there is a question icon in front of something, it means that the driver for this device is not installed and the system does not know what to do with this equipment. If you find such an icon, then read next to what it stands and install the driver for this device. Ideally, there should be no question marks at all, as, for example, here:

3. Optimizing or freeing memory.
For more comfortable work, in the section where you have Windows installed, nothing extra should be installed, it is also advisable not to have a paging file on it and the temp folder. This is what we are going to do now.
Doesn't let you on the Internet?
Remember, we wrote down incomprehensible numbers on a piece of paper? Now you need to write them back. To do this, follow point 3 of the first stage

This completes the whole process. You now have brand new Windows, which is also already configured. You can use

Afterword

It seems as if all this is very difficult and incomprehensible, but after 10-20 identical actions and Windows installations, you will do it instantly. And there is really nothing complicated in installing the OS, it just takes a little more time and attention.

Now I would like to stipulate some points that, in one way or another, were not included in the scope of this article.

When writing this article, I considered only the disc with the official copy of Windows XP. I do not consider various assemblies like Zver, Philka, etc. And, although installing assemblies is practically no different from installing a licensed copy of Windows XP, you put the assembly at your own peril and risk.
I did not consider registering your Windows XP because the process is very straightforward whether your key is printed on the disc box or it was mailed to you.
I did not consider the possibility of installing drivers from special programs, since I do not consider this option to be safe enough.

PS: The article was written by a person hiding under the nickname “barn4k“ (a friend and project assistant). For which many thanks to him.

Windows XP is a good option for installing on a netbook, on a weak desktop computer, or on a laptop made many years ago.
The Windows XP operating system, despite the fact that it was released in 2001, is still well suited to work on low-power, outdated computers. More modern operating systems Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7 make more serious demands on the computer hardware.

In times Windows creation XP used CDs to install the operating system, which were inserted into the CD / DVD drives of the computer. The era of portable USB sticks has not yet arrived, so Microsoft has not provided a tool to install the system from a bootable USB stick.

Installing Windows XP via a USB flash drive takes place in three stages:

Creating a bootable USB flash drive.
Choosing to boot from a USB flash drive in the computer's BIOS.
Installing Windows XP on a computer from an installation flash drive.

Creating a bootable USB flash drive with Windows XP

To create a bootable USB drive, we use a free WinSetupFromUSB program... We also need a clean USB drive to write to the system's flash drive.

There is a detailed article on my website. Read the article, write down the operating system on a USB flash drive according to the instructions.

Boot priority selection in BIOS

Insert the USB flash drive with Windows XP into the USB connector, and then turn on the computer. Immediately after starting the PC, you must press a specific key on the keyboard to enter BIOS settings to select the priority of booting from a bootable USB flash drive or DVD drive.

On the different devices different keys or keyboard shortcuts are used.

After starting the computer, testing the equipment begins, at this time you need to quickly press the key to enter the BIOS. The most commonly used keys are "Del", "F2" and "F8" for fast boot.

Work in the BIOS is carried out using the keyboard keys. The BIOS window explains in English which keys you need to use to configure.

In the AMIBIOS settings, enter the Advanced BIOS Features menu, where you need to select as the first boot USB devices the disc by moving it to the first position.

AMI BIOS ver.3.31a

In other BIOS versions, open the Boot tab, choose USB stick , install it as the first boot device if installing from a USB flash drive. Please select DVD drive if installing from disk.

Save your settings and then exit BIOS. Immediately after that, the computer will boot the system from an installation flash drive or from a CD / DVD disc if an optical disc is used to install Windows XP.

If you didn't manage to enter the BIOS in time, it's okay: restart your computer again and then try again.

How to install Windows XP from a USB flash drive

In the first window with the inscription "Press any key to boot from CD" you need to press any key on the keyboard.

To create a USB flash drive, we used the WinSetupFromUSB program, so a window will open on the screen MultiBoot USB, in which you need to choose « Installing Microsoft Windows XP SP3 x86 - Russian version ".

If you install from a disk, then the window above does not come out.

Windows XP installation begins. After loading required files The Windows XP Professional Setup window opens. Required Press any key otherwise the installation will not start.

Press the button " Enter»To start the installation of the operating system.
All suggested options:
1. Proceed to install windows xp (Enter key)
2. Restore Windows (Key R)
3. Exit the installer (F3 key)

We accept the license agreement by clicking on the button " F8».

If the system is already installed on the computer, then the window will display partitions hard disk. It is possible to delete all partitions and install the system in an unallocated area, (be careful, after deleting a partition or formatting it, you will lose all data) or select an existing system partition for installation.

We will install Windows XP into an unallocated area. In the unallocated area, if necessary, you can create an additional non-system disk partition (partition D - for storing data).

An unallocated area is selected on our computer. To start the Windows installation, you need to click on " Enter».

Format the section to NTFS system(Fast).
Format the partition in NTFS.

This window may suggest formatting to the FAT file system, do not consider this option.

You can choose any of these NTFS formatting options. In the first case, the formatting of the partition will be faster.

The system partition is being formatted.

The system copies the files to the Windows installation folders.

Upon completion, the computer will restart.
Next, a window will appear with the inscription "Press any key to boot from CD", in this time we don't press anything!

The installer displays information about the features of the operating system. It will take some time to install Windows XP, the approximate time until the installation is complete is displayed in the Windows Setup window.

On top of the system wizard window, windows open for configuring certain parameters.

In the window " language and regional standards"Select a language, click on the button" Further". In Russified Windows versions XP, Russian is selected by default.

In the next window, be sure to enter “ Name account", For example Alexander.

You can enter anything you want. This name will be displayed on the system as the computer username.

If you are a regular user, " Name of the organization» do not enter.

In the Product Key window, enter the key for your copy of Windows. (this window may not come out - depends on the build of Windows XP ). You can skip this step, the system can be activated later, after completing the installation on the computer.

If you did not enter the key in the previous window, in the window " Error"Click on the button" Not».

In the next window, enter “ Computer name"For example Dell, and admin password... If you will not use a password, leave the corresponding fields blank, and then click on the button " Further". If necessary, you can set the administrator password later.

In the window " Setting the time and date»- select time, date and time zone.

The Windows XP Setup window opens again.

In the next window “ Network parameters»Select« Common parameters».

In the window " Workgroup or domain"Click on the button" Further"Without changing anything.

The Windows XP installation window will open again.

The installation of the operating system continues for some time. After the installation is complete, the computer will restart.

A welcome window will open, and then Windows XP will start.

Windows XP installation is complete.

Enter BIOS, select again as the first boot device HDD(HDD) of the computer. Next, install the necessary drivers on your PC. You can have the drivers on the disk that came with the computer, or you can go to the official website of the equipment manufacturer and download the necessary drivers from there. More about this in the article: “. This article contains links to the official websites of manufacturers motherboards and video adapters.

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Every day, computer technologies are developing more and more, as is the software for them. But today, many still have computers that do not correspond to the declared ones. technical requirements... An example of such software is Windows 7, which requires at least 1 GB of RAM for comfortable work.

And what about those who have only 512 MB of memory? In this case, our good old friend Windows Xp comes to our aid. It is in this article that you will learn how to install Windows Xp... This operating system is the second most popular in the Microsoft lineup. But this is not even strange, because the quality and convenience of work were and are at their best.

Compare Xp with its older brother Windows Vista, this OS somehow did not take root with us, as there were many shortcomings. And this was proved by the same users who worked on XP, without becoming a switch to the new OS. And most people, having bought a laptop or computer already with Vista, eventually moved it to XP or Windows 7.

If you are ready to learn how to reinstall Windows XP correctly, then proceed to our installation, starting with preparing your computer.

Preparing to install Windows Xp

To install, we first need a Windows xp installation CD. Or, alternatively, it can be a bootable USB flash drive, from 2GB or more. You can learn how to create a bootable USB stick. If your choice fell on a CD - disc, then be sure to read how to burn a disc with a Windows image

Of course, we will need to save all our data to disk "D" in case you reinstall Windows. And you may need it. For example, I have a lot of bookmarks of the pages I like, and it would be expensive to search for everything again after reinstallation. But after exporting, I saved all my favorites in one file, and after installation I restored them in a few clicks, and it's pretty convenient.

Having saved all the data, the last step remains, we need to put it in or flash drive. Having done all this, you can proceed to the installation itself.

Installing Windows Xp

After preparing the computer and putting everything in the BIOS as recommended, after inserting the CD into the drive, the boot from it should begin. A window will open asking you to press a key to continue the installation. The main thing is to react in time and have time to press, because if there is nothing not to do, the computer will start to turn on as always with the previously installed OS.

Pressing any key will show blue screen which will check the configuration of your computer. You will have to wait a bit here.

After checking, the installer will prompt you to install new windows XP or restore the existing one. Since we will be installing a clean system, click " Enter».

To install Windows XP, I used a blank disk and created one partition by simply pressing "Enter". But if you want to divide the disk into 2 partitions, press "C" and indicate the size that suits you, for example, 20GB drive "C: \" and confirm. Selecting the "Unallocated area" again, press the "C" key and indicate the remaining 20GB, thus creating a second logical drive"D: \".

Having finished with the allocation of free space, select "Format the partition in the NTFS system<Быстрое>».

The formatting process will begin, it will take a few seconds, but if you chose simple formatting, you will have to wait a little longer.

After formatting, copying of the installation files will automatically start, again here we do not need to press anything, we just wait.

After copying all the files, the system will reboot and proceed to the installation itself.

Our computer rebooted and the installation of Windows XP began, with an approximate time until its completion.

At 33 minutes, a window will appear for configuring regional settings, changing the layout and adding a language, just click "Next". This way you will leave standard set languages English and Russian. As a rule, I expose additional languages after installation.

In the next window, we need to specify a Name.

We give a name to our computer.

We set the time zone and set the date and time.

We choose the usual parameters.

We just skip this step without changing anything.

Attention!!! If you set to boot from a CD-drive, then a window will appear again asking you to press any key to boot from a disk. Your task is not to press anything, because Windows XP is almost installed and we will not need the disk further. After rebooting, the auto-adjustment of the image will start, we agree with everything by clicking "OK".

Windows greets us and thanks for your choice, go to the next step with the "Next" button.

"Postpone this action" is what we need to choose. The screenshot scored to change the selection.

If Windows XP was able to install the drivers on network card and the cable was plugged in, the Internet connection test can begin. But we just need to click on "Skip".