Installing windows xp. Correct installation of Windows XP

Hello everyone, today we are going to talk about how to install windows xp to your computer. I will write several options, for example, installation from a USB flash drive and in other articles - on virtual machine. Windows XP is a very old system that evokes nostalgic feelings for many, so let's try to install it on a PC again and do some work!

By the way, before installing Windows XP, I advise you to read the material: "". This is necessary to establish boot from disk to the first place. If you are doing this from a USB flash drive, then read about, with which you can not rearrange the drives, but immediately select the USB flash drive to boot.

Preparing to install Windows XP from a disc

If you have an old distribution kit with Windows XP lying around, then let's proceed directly to the installation. In the absence of a distribution, I recommend downloading the image from the following links:

https://win-torrent.net/windowsxp_torrent

http://free-max.ru/windows_xp

On them you can find images without keys.

We enter the BIOS and move to the tab Boot or Advanced(depending on BIOS version). Getting into the parameter Boot Device Priority and using the F5 and F6 keys we move the desired device to the first place, for example, a CD / DVD drive. Or Use Enter to select the desired boot device.

To save the settings, you must go to the tab exit and choose the option there Exit & Save Changes.

If you have a different BIOS version, say - Award, you can do the following: open the section "Advanced BIOS Features".

Choose an option First boot device. Nearby there is an option HDD0responsible for booting from the hard drive. Press Enter and select CDROM if you are booting from a disk.

To save the changed parameters, in the main window, go to the option "Save & Exit Setup". A red confirmation window will appear, where we press the button Y.

How to install Windows XP using a disc

As soon as you have done everything necessary and exited the BIOS with saving the settings, you should see such a black window with the phrase "Press any key to boot from CD", which means "press any key to boot from disk". Be sure to press any key to install.

Our eyes open the welcome menu. There are several options here that we can use:

• Proceed directly to the installation of Windows XP.
• Restore Windows XP using the Recovery Console.
• Exit the installer.

Naturally, you must select the first option by pressing the key ENTER.

In the next window, we accept the terms of the license agreement using the key F8.

Now we need to deal with the sections. AT this example we see three sections. You can remove all partitions to put them together (done with the D key), or install into an already prepared partition. I will choose the disc called "Section 2", it just has the letter C. The choice is made with the Enter key.

In the next window, you need to select the type of formatting. To completely clear the partition table, you can choose a full format, but this is not necessary. Choose an option "Format partition as NTFS<Быстрое>» .

Here is the installation of Windows XP. We have waited! During this process, the computer may restart a couple of times. Now you know how to install Windows XP, or rather, how to get started.

As soon as the installation files are copied to the disk, a window will appear asking you to specify the regional data. In this case, click Next.

If you are asked to enter the product key, enter. In case you downloaded another image, the key may be embedded in it, so you will not see this window.

The next window, where we are asked to specify the date and time. Then we press the button "Further".

"Skip" how to uninstall Windows.

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Greetings. Decided to write about it today. how to install windows xp. They just brought me a computer, so-so, old already. RAM 256 MB, Celeron processor, HDD 40 GB. Well, what? That where there, XP is the most for him.

It’s just that everyone is already writing about installing Windows 8, but something has carried me back to the old days. Well, okay, I think that XP will live on, because whatever one may say, this is a good OS and many still work with it. Just want to apologize for the pictures, photographed on a 15-inch monitor, also on the phone. Ideally, of course, you could install Windows XP on a virtual machine and make beautiful screenshots, but I have a living example :).

Preparing to install Windows XP

Important! Make sure that there is no important information on the C drive (the drive on which you have installed or had installed the operating system). Desktop and folder "My documents" stored on drive C. If there is information, then it can be copied to drive D using boot disk.

If everything is fine, then we move on. Insert the Windows XP installation disc into your computer drive and restart your computer. If after the start of the download at the bottom of the screen you will see the download (the dots will move), then everything is fine. Quickly press any key (did not have time :), restart the computer again) and you can proceed to the beginning of the installation.

Well, if you didn’t boot from the CD, and the computer started to boot as usual with hard drive, or an error appeared through which you undertook to reinstall the operating system, it means that you have not set boot from the drive in the BIOS in the first place. I already wrote an article about that, but in this computer the BIOS was different from what is described in the article.

Go to the tab "Boot".

Click "Boot Device Priority".

Using the keys "Enter" and "Up" "Down" set the first CD / DVD, then the hard drive, etc. Now press F10 and save the changes. The computer will restart and the CD will begin loading. Press any button and proceed to the beginning of the installation.

Windows XP installation process

As soon as you pressed any key, we see this:

Here you have to wait, well, nothing can be done, we are waiting :).

In this window, press "Enter".

We accept the license agreement by pressing the F8 key.

As you can see, I have already found old version Windows XP and you can try to restore it, but I think you also need clean install, so press "Esc".

Select the partition on the hard disk in which we want to install the operating system. As a rule, this is C:, select it and press “Enter”.

Confirm the setting with the "C" key.

Here you need to choose how the partition will be formatted. I advise you to choose FAT and not fast. Press "Enter". Confirm formatting by pressing the "F" key.

We are waiting for the partition on the hard drive to be formatted.

Copying files from the disk will start immediately, we are waiting again :(.

You can immediately set up the language and keyboard. Click "Next".

Enter your name and organization name. Move on.

Set up the time and date. Click "Next".

We are waiting again, but do not go far :).

I left “Regular Options” and clicked "Next".

You can register with Microsoft. But I refused. We continue.

Specify computer users.

Congratulations! Windows XP installation is complete.

All friends, the installation is complete and you can start using your computer. I also want to note that I installed the simplest build Windows xp. You may also have an assembly, for example, from ZWER, where the installation process may be slightly different. For example, in this version, I also entered the key, I forgot to take a picture. And in the assembly from ZWER, there seems to be no such item. Well, if it asks for a key, then look for it in a text file that you most likely downloaded from the disk image.

Well, like everything. Good luck friends!

Preparing the distribution disk is the first step in installing Windows XP. If you already have such a disk 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 analogues) burn it to CD or DVD.

Boot Windows ISO file XP is a pre-built system image that contains a complete set of installation data. It does not require any preliminary preparation, but is transferred to a CD in an unchanged form.

Consider the process of burning a Windows distribution to DVD using UltraISO as an example.

• Launch the application.
• Press the key combination "Ctrl" + "O" and open the Windows ISO image that you have prepared to transfer to disk.
• Click on the “Burn CD image” icon in the top toolbar or press the F7 key.

• Place a blank or rewritable DVD in your optical drive.
• Make sure that the distribution kit you need is selected in the "Image capture" window. Check the “Check” option if you want the quality of the disc to be checked after burning. Select an appropriate recording speed. Even if your laser drive can write at maximum speed, we recommend choosing a medium or low speed. 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 clean one by clicking “Record”.

After 20 - 30 minutes, depending on the speed of the drive, preparation installation disk will be finished. You can move on to the next step.

How to install Windows XP from a disc in the traditional way

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

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

BIOS setup

To boot your computer from a CD or DVD, you need to BIOS settings Setup set the CD drive as the first boot device. To do this, enter the settings menu by pressing the key intended for this immediately after starting the computer (Del, F2 - F12, etc.). Which one - you can read at the bottom of the splash screen motherboard(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 Award BIOS. Navigate using the arrow keys to select the laser drive from the list of devices. In our example, it is labeled as CD-ROM Drive, but sometimes only hardware models are listed in this list.

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

Disk Boot and Windows XP Installation Process

• Place the laser disc in the drive and restart the PC. System installation starts with boot Windows files XP in computer RAM.

• Next, Windows will greet you and offer you to continue 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 prompt you to accept the Microsoft license agreement for using Windows xp.

• Next - select a place on the hard drive for the system partition. Press "C", which means "Create Partition".

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

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

• Let's format the new partition in NTFS (a quick format will suit us just fine).

• And wait until the installer copies the distribution files to disk.

• After copying is complete, the computer will restart.

• Next Windows boot XP will no longer be executed 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 again be required. Here we will need 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 during the installation process is voluntary. It can always be entered later.

• The computer name and administrator password must also be specified now. The name will be suggested 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.

• Name working group let it stay as it is. You can always change it after installation.

• This installation is almost complete. Next, the screen will be configured and one or more user accounts will be created, the first of which will be appointed as the administrator of the computer. You will also be prompted to activate Windows XP right now.

And now it's really almost everything. There are a minimum of settings left - and the system is ready to work.

Automatic installation of Windows XP

Creating an answer file using Windows tools

Agree, installing the system for about an hour without leaving the computer and constantly pressing “Next” will bother anyone. 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 - a response file that contains all the information needed by the installer.

It's time for you and me 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 the disk and run it.

• The "Installation Manager" wizard will help us create the answer file. With it, we can both make a new one and change an existing script. Since we do not have any blanks, we will select “Create”.

• Leave the installation type as default - " automatic installation”.

• The product version is Windows XP Professional.

• User experience - "Fully automatic installation" (if we do not plan to change the parameters in the response file).

• Then select "Install from CD".

• Let's accept the license agreement and proceed to filling out the same forms and fields that we filled out when Windows was being installed from the disk. First window: “Name and organization”.

• Screen options. You can leave them as default (use the defaults accepted in Windows).

• Timezone.

• Serial number (required!). Without typing serial number here, you will not be able to continue creating the response file and install the system.

• Names of computers on which Windows XP will be automatically installed using this script.

• And also: administrator password, network components, name of the workgroup or domain where this PC will be included, telephone code countries and cities, locales, language support, initial settings Internet Explorer, the 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 scenario, thanks to which we will be able to install Windows XP completely automatically.

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

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

That, perhaps, is all. As you can see, there is nothing complicated in installing Windows XP according to 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 where winnt32.exe is located - the Windows installer.

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

Automation of installation by alternative means

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

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

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

Friends, with this article we are opening a new section on how to work with a computer correctly. We will cover issues such as installing Windows XP correctly, as well as updating drivers and other programs of daily use.

Many will say: What to put there? Is everything simple there?". Do you know that improper installation of the OS in most cases is the main cause of malfunctions when working on a computer, ranging from banal freezing and braking, ending with errors at the hardware level.

How you install the operating system on your computer will determine how well it will serve you. So, let's figure out how to properly install Windows XP.

We analyzed enough material located on the Internet on this topic, but we did not find a simple and adequate disclosure of the topic. Also, as a simplification of perception and a better understanding of the OS installation process, a video story with a detailed description was prepared.

No attention was paid to such trifles as “buying a disk with an operating system”, “do I need to read the license agreement”. We paid special attention to the initial setup of the installed system.

Basic steps for installing Windows XP

• 1. The first thing to do is to change the boot order in the BIOS to “boot from optical disk”. To do this, when loading the OS, you must press “ F2”, or “ DEL”, and go to the tab “ BOOT”, where, pressing the key “ + " or " — ”, edit the boot order so that the entry “ CD Rom Drive” was at the very top.

• 2. Save the settings by pressing the “ F10". When the computer restarts, the message “ Press any key to boot from CD..”, you must press any key to start booting from the installation disk.
• 3. Next, preparations for installing the operating system will begin. When the welcome window appears, the system will once again ask you to confirm the intention to install a new OS, press the “Enter” key.
• 4. When the license agreement appears, click “ F8” to accept it and continue with the installation.
• 5. If you reinstall the OS, the installer will try to restore installed version. We do not need this, press "Esc".
• 6. Next, perhaps the most important. Select a partition to install. If you already have a priori a hard drive divided into logical partitions: a system partition and one or more user partitions, then this is very good. Then it will only be necessary to delete the system partition, then create it, format it and install a new OS on it.

If your hard drive has not been partitioned before, then this must be done right now. For what? Everything is very simple. By dividing the hard drive into a system part and a user part, you create a safety cushion for yourself. if the OS fails in the worst case, you simply reinstall the OS on a formatted system partition, but the user data will remain safe on the user partition.

How to properly divide a hard drive, see the video. As an example, a 10 GB hard drive was considered in the video lesson. If your hard drive allows, make the system partition at least 20 GB.

• 7. Next, you need to format the partition with the file type NTFS systems. Choose a quick format.
• 8. The system will reboot, we will use the convenient moment and restore it in the settings BIOS boot from the hard drive, not from the CD-Rom. How to do this, we have already considered in the very first steps.
• 9. After the reboot, the system will continue the installation. The first window that appears will be “ Regional settings window”, where you need to select the keyboard layout.
• 10. Next, the installer will ask you to enter the Name and organization name. Enter only the Name and click next.
• 11. In the window that appears, enter license key product. Be careful.
• 12. Set the Computer name. Leave the administrator password field blank for now.

Make the necessary date and time settings. One thing, however, at the moment we have legally canceled the transition to winter time. I advise you to install the appropriate update from the official Microsoft website (WindowsXP-KB2570791-x86-RUS). This can be done after installing the OS.

• 13. Next, you need to determine whether the computer will work in a domain network or not. We do not change anything, click " Further". We are waiting for the installation program to finish its work and reboot.

• 14. At first start, the system will try to automatically adjust the screen extension. accept them if you are satisfied with the selected option. When the welcome window appears, click " Further”, set aside the settings automatic update, we skip settings to the Internet, we postpone registration with Microsoft.
• 15. Create an account.
• 16. The initial OS setup is mandatory. Watch the video and follow everything step by step. After completing all the settings, you will receive an optimally configured computer prepared for work.

Video “how to install Windows XP correctly”

Watch the video and learn. If something is not clear, ask questions.

Often, when buying a ready-made computer with a preinstalled operating system, we do not get a distribution disk in our hands. In order to be able to restore, reinstall or deploy the system on another computer, we need bootable media.

The whole process of creating a bootable XP disc comes down to burning the finished operating system image onto an empty CD. The image most often has an ISO extension and already contains all the necessary files for download and installation.

Boot disks are created not only to install or reinstall the system, but also to check the HDD for viruses, work with file system, reset the password account. For this, there are multi bootable media. We will also talk about them below.

Method 1: disk from an image

We will create a disk from the one downloaded on the network Windows image XP using the UltraISO program. To the question of where to get the image. Because the official support XP is over, then you can download the system only from third-party sites or torrents. When choosing, you need to pay attention to the fact that the image is original (MSDN), since various assemblies may not work correctly and contain a lot of unnecessary, most often outdated, updates and programs.

The disk is ready, now you can boot from it and use all the functions.

Method 2: disk from files

If for some reason you only have a folder with files instead of a disk image, then you can also burn them to a disc and make it bootable. Also this method will work if you create a duplicate of the installation disk. Please note that to copy a disc, you can use another option - create an image from it and burn it to CD-R.

In order to be able to boot from the created disk, we need boot file for Windows XP. Unfortunately, it cannot be obtained from official sources for the same reason that support has ceased, so you will again have to use the search engine. The file may have a name xpboot.bin specifically for XP or nt5boot.bin for all NT systems (universal). Search query should look like this: "xpboot.bin download" without quotes.

Multiboot Disk

Multiboot disks are different from regular topics, which, in addition to the installation image of the operating system, may contain various utilities for working with Windows without starting it. Consider an example with Kaspersky Rescue Disk from the Kaspersky Lab.

1. First we need to download the necessary material.
   
2. We launch Xboot and drag the Windows XP image file into the program window.

   

3. Next, you will be prompted to select a bootloader for the image. suits us Grub4dos ISO Image Emulation. You can find it in the drop-down list shown in the screenshot. After selecting, press "Add this file".

   

4. In the same way, add a disk with Kaspersky. In this case, the choice of bootloader may not be necessary.

   

5. To create an image, press the button "Create ISO" and give a name to the new image by choosing a save location. Click OK.

   

6. We are waiting for the program to cope with the task.

   

7. Next, Xboot will prompt you to run QEMU to check the image. It makes sense to agree to make sure it works.

   

8. A boot menu will open with a list of distributions. You can check each by selecting the appropriate item using the arrows and pressing ENTER.

   

9. The finished image can be written to a disc using the same UltraISO. This disc It will be possible to use both as an installation and as a “treatment”.

Conclusion

Today we learned how to create bootable media with an operating Windows system xp. These skills will help you in case you need to reinstall or restore, as well as in cases of virus infection and other problems with the OS.