Install Window XP Professional From CD-ROM

Why would you want to install Window XP Professional from a CD-ROM?

Especially when most computers bought from a retail outlet already has done an installation of Windows XP.

One of the reasons why you would want to do a Windows XP clean install would be because you found out you had a virus on your Hard Drive.

A friend of mine detected a virus on his system when 75% of his 80 gigabyte Hard Drive filled up with junk data.

If you tried to delete the junk data, the virus would replace the bad data with more of the same garbage.

Even with his paid protection service installed on his computer at the time, the company wanted another $100 to take care of this problem.

So just because you're paying for protection doesn't mean that you are guaranteed protection.

It means it's up to you to make sure you keep your system clean at all times and we'll cover this point at a later time.

The only way to get rid of the virus was to reinstall Windows XP after reformatting the Hard Drive.

How to Reinstall Windows XP

To install Window XP Professional from a CD-ROM covers a four-stage process.

• Text Mode Setup
• Setup Wizard
• Network setup
• Completing the Installation

The install Window XP Professional process combines the Setup program with wizards and informational screens.

Text Mode Setup

• If the computer's basic input/output system (BIOS) supports booting directly from CD-ROM or already running a previous version of Windows, you can simply insert the CD-ROM and use a setup wizard to begin the installation.
• If the computer does not support booting from CD, you can create a set of floppy disks that will start the computer and then intiate setup from CD.
  • Note: You can visit http://www.microsoft.com/downloads and search by using the keywords "Windows XP boot floppy" without the quotes.
• Below shows the six steps involved in the text mode setup.
  • Load the Setup program into memory.
  • Start text-based Setup program.
  • Create the Window XP Professional Edition partition.
  • Format the Window XP Professional Edition partition.
  • Copies setup files to the hard disk.
  • Restart the computer, go to the Setup Wizard.

• Name and organization.
• Computer name.
• Password for Administrator account.
• Time and date.
• Starts to install the networking components.

Network Setup.

• Detect network adapter cards.
• Select networking components.
• Join a workgroup or domain.
• Install components, go to Completing the Installation.

Completing the Installation.

• Copy files.
• Configure the computer.
• Save the configuration.
• Remove temporary files.
• Restart the computer.

Setup is now complete.

So this completes the four-stage process on how to install Windows XP Professional from a CD-ROM.

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