Do you have the guts to mess
with your computer? if yes i will teach you how to format your computer nice
and easy. You dont need to go to a computer repair shop and let the computer
technician format your computer and then lose some money for the service
rendered to your Personal computer. You might also end up spending alot of
money than you least expected because if you end up with a unscrupulous
computer technician he might tell you to replace your hard disk even though
your hard disk is working very well he might tell you that your computer can
not be formatted anymore and that you need to buy one then he will offer you to
buy his discounted hard drive. You may never know but this kind of situation
sometimes happens.
Now here is the step by step
instruction on how to format your computer well, even though you lack the
technical knowledge to do this I am pretty sure that you can pull this up. you
just have to be smart all the time :) You might want to read this What you need
to do before you format your Computer or this When to format and Why you need
to format a computer before you proceed
Step 1: Set your First boot device to
CDROM go to CMOS Setup by powering your computer up then when you see the press
DEL instruction, Press del at once. You will be directed to the CMOS Management
setup of your computer. Go to Advanced Setup and find the FIRST BOOT DEVICE
entry change the value to CDROM use the + and - key to change the value. then
press F10 to save and exit CMOS setup. If your computer's first boot device is
set to CDROM by factory default skip this step.
Step 2. As soon as the computer restarts.
Eject your CDROM drive and insert your Windows XP installation CD as fast as
you can, A message “Press any key to boot from CD..” will be
displayed, do what it says press any key to boot then Windows XP Setup
installation will start and a blue screen will appear saying Windows
installation files are loading just wait until it finishes loading the setup
files.
Step 3. After loading all the necessary installation files Accept User License Agreement screen will appear read it if you want or simply press F8 to accept and continue.
Step 4. A Windows XP Welcome installation
window will be displayed then you will be prompted with 3 selections. The first
option is to setup windows XP now the second option is Repair windows XP
installation using Recovery console and the last option is Quit WIndows XP
installation.
Select the first option and then
press enter. you will be asked to repair your previous Windows XP
installation If the system detects your previously installed windows xp, Do not
repair it skip this repair recommendation because we are going to format our
hard disk and instal a fresh copy of WIndows XP
Step 5. You will be prompted with the
details of all partitions installed on your hard disk, Delete all existing
partitions by selecting the partition using your up or down arrow key then
pressing the "d" key to delete, do it all over again for all the
remaining partitions. If your hard drive is new of course it doent have
any partition so just skip this procedure
Step 6. Create a new partition, You can
create 1 or more partitions for your computer if you have a massive sized hard
drive you can create multiple partition if not you can create a single
partition. Now create a partition in the unpartitioned space by pressing the
"c" key you will be prompted to enter the size of the partition,
accept the default value to create a single partition if you want to create
multiple partition just enter the value eg. 50% then press enter
Step 7. Format the hardisk partition for
windows XP. The next screen will prompt you to format your hard drive using the
NTFS file system or the FAT file system. Select the NTFS file system (quick)
for faster formatting and to benefit from the file and folder security of the
NTFS file system.
Setup will now format the drive
and then copies all the installation files to your harddisk. It will take a
while to copy all the files. Once finished copying the computer will restart
and proceeds to the GUI (Graphical User Interface) installation mode. You will
be prompted to enter some information like name and organization etc.. and then
asking you to enter your WIndows XP license key wait untill the installation is
finished and then auto restarts again for the final boot up.
Step 8. It is finished, You have
successfully formatted and installed a fresh copy of WIndowx XP Operating
system on your computer.
The next thing to do is to
install all your motherboard drivers and other peripheral or add on devices
such as your TV tuner, blue tooth devices, printer drivers, etc and then
install your favorite anti virus software to prevent viruses from infecting
your computer. after installing your anti virus software. Install all software
that were installed before you format your computer.
If you run into problems doing
all the procedures i mentioned just post your question below and i will gladly
answer it for you.
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