Setting Up Computer Operating System

Setting Up Computer Operating System
Here is the next screen; this is the welcome to the setup screen. It gives you in this case three different options; to set up Windows XP now press enter, to repair windows installation using the recovery CD press “r” or to quit all together press F3. If you do number 2 to repair Windows, it’s actually really, really technical and sometimes it doesn’t work. If you decide, I just don’t want to do this and let’s get out of this you can press F3 but if you want to continue formatting the hard drive you would press enter. Once you press enter it’s going to come up with a license agreement, you can read it, decide if you want to or not want to do this, accept the agreements, you can do a page down to read everything but if you decide okay this is what I really want to do, you press the F8 key, on the keyboard and it will take you to the next prompt. What it’s going to do right now is search for previous versions of Windows. Now obviously if you’re formatting your hard drive you already had a previous version of Windows. This is going to say, two options here; to repair Windows you can press “R” or to continue installing a fresh copy of Windows you can press escape. If you’d like to, let’s say that you feel that or a tech told you maybe just re-installing Windows would be fine you can do the “R”, again, I’m not a big fan of that, if your computer has a lot of problems it needs to be formatted. You can just go ahead and go through the next step, which is pressing escape. Once you press escape you’re going to have some more options. Right now what it’s going to do is ask you which hard drive if you have many, would you like to put Windows XP on. In this case the “c” drive, which is what everybody basically calls their hard drive is the one that we want to do it to. You see that there, okay. Then you have these other options here. To set up Windows XP on the selected item press Enter which is this one here. To create a partition in an un-partitioned space press “c”, partitioning is basically taking your hard drive and cutting it into sections. In this case we are not going to do that. The last one is to delete the selected partition press “D”, again if you had a partition on your hard drive and you wanted to delete it, you could do that. So in this case what we are going to do is press Enter, because we want to install Windows on our “C” drive. The next screen comes up and cautions you, your two options are; to continue using Setup with this partition press “C”, to select a different partition press “Escape” again we’re not going to be dealing with partitions in this segment, we’re just going to be formatting the hard drive so to continue to setup using this utility press “C”, so we press “C”