When buying a new computer, the question of installing an operating system on it immediately arises. To do this, you do not need to have additional skills and knowledge. Windows installation is straightforward.
It is necessary
- - a computer;
- - Windows installation disc.
Instructions
Step 1
Turn on your computer to install Windows on a new hard drive. Insert the operating system installation disc into the drive. If after a couple of minutes the installer window does not appear, and a message like this Insert system disk and press any enter appears on the screen, then you need to restart the computer and enter the BIOS.
Step 2
To do this, at the initial boot of the computer, press the Del key, or the F2 button, it depends on the BIOS version, then go to the Advanced item, and select the Advanced BIOS Features item. You need to find the First Boot Device option and select the CD value in it in order to be able to install the operating system on the hard drive.
Step 3
Press the F10 button to save your changes and restart your computer to install Windows on a new hard drive. Booting from the installation disc will begin. After downloading the installer files, a window will appear in which you will need to select the disk for installing the system.
Step 4
Highlight the desired disk, press the "C" button to create a partition on the disk for installing the operating system. Enter the required size of the disk in megabytes, as practice shows for the future drive C, thirty gigabytes is enough. It will host the operating system, as well as all installed programs.
Step 5
Create other logical disks, if necessary, for this do the same with the unallocated area on the disk. Next, you need to select a disk partition to install the Windows operating system, to do this, select the partition and press the Enter key.
Step 6
In the next window, format the selected partition. When installing the OS on a new hard drive, you must select the formatting option "Format partition in the NTFC system". Fast formatting is not recommended. Wait until the disk is formatted and the files copied to the disk. The computer will restart.
Step 7
Follow the instructions of the system installation wizard, select the necessary parameters for it: region, accounts, network connection parameters, and so on. Wait for the installation to complete. Reboot your computer. The operating system installation is complete.
