Format your computer's hard drive. Doing so will set up the hard drive for a Windows installation. This process will take several minutes to an hour depending on your hard drive's size.
You can select the Quick option here as well, though your hard drive might be improperly formatted if you do so. Wait for your computer to restart. After the computer finishes formatting, it will restart into the user options setup window. Make sure that you don't press any keys until you arrive at the user options setup window.
Part 3. Click Next. It's in the bottom-right corner of the window. You can also click Customize Enter your name, then click Next. Your name goes in the "Name" text field. You can also add a business name in the "Organization" section.
Enter your product key, then click Next. Type the character key that you retrieved earlier into the "Product Key" boxes. Add a password, then click Next. Type your preferred password into the "Administrator password" and "Confirm password" text fields at the bottom of the window.
You can also change your computer's name in the text field at the top of the window. Set a date and time zone, then click Next. Click the "Date" drop-down box, select the current date, and then repeat with the "Time" and "Time Zone" boxes. Check the "Typical Settings" box, then click Next. This will cause Windows XP to install using default settings.
Check the "No" box. It's at the top of the window. If your computer is part of a workgroup, you'll instead check the "Yes" box and enter your workgroup's address in the text box. This will complete the installation setup process, at which point Windows XP will resume installing. You may have to wait for 30 minutes or so before the installation finishes. It might be on a sticker on the bottom of your laptop if that's what you're using.
Yes No. Not Helpful 13 Helpful Unless you keep a backup copy of your i folder, you can't. Ubuntu allows you to dual-boot your computer, which keeps both XP and Ubuntu. Not Helpful 4 Helpful 9. I found an old XP computer. I want to factory reset it. How can I do that without knowing the admin password?
Try to reintall the OS completely. Insert a official CD or dowload and make one. Then just install Windows normally. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 1. What can I do if my computer won't boot up, shows Windows, then shuts down and tries to start up again, then loops?
Repeatedly hit F8 on your keyboard during boot up, than select system repair. If you can't, contact your system manufacturer for a repair CD.
Or, if you have to product code, download from the Microsoft website. Not Helpful 9 Helpful 3. Boot into the Windows XP installation, get to the partitions, then format the drive. Just make sure you backed up all files.
Not Helpful 0 Helpful 0. However, at the minimum RAM, Vista will be quite laggy. You might want to consider upgrading your RAM to its maximum amount, which should be quite inexpensive on an older machine; if the processor is at least 1 GHz, you could then run Windows 7.
What to do in that case? It may be in a hidden file. Search for winnt in My Computer. If you see an icon that looks like a computer next to something that says "winnt", that is the. Double click on that icon and walk through the steps. You can also do a system restore to restore the computer to an earlier point and then search for "winnt". Not Helpful 10 Helpful 1. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered.
Closing any unnecessary open programs before initiating the reinstallation will speed up the installation. Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0. If you installed custom components e. You can fix this by updating them with the correct drivers, which can usually be found on a component manufacturer's product page online. You Might Also Like How to. How to. About This Article. Written by:. Co-authors: Updated: March 4, Categories: XP Instructions. Thanks to all authors for creating a page that has been read 1,, times.
That's a pity, because I liked XP best out of all the Windows systems! Once you have copied the above files, create an autoexec. Get to the floppy drive by typing A: , once at the floppy drive, type:. Once this is displayed, press Enter to copy the file. Congratulations, after completing the above steps, you have a bootable floppy diskette. To create a boot diskette, you must have access to the i directory on your Windows NT CD or possibly your hard drive.
If you are using any SCSI devices that you need access to, you need to also load these drivers onto the diskette. To create a Windows Professional bootable diskette, you need four 1. From the backup window, click the button for Emergency Repair Disk and follow each of the steps. When formatting a floppy diskette, users have the option of creating an MS-DOS startup disk, follow the steps below to do this. Microsoft has phased out bootable floppy diskettes in favor of bootable CDs and has not included a method of creating a bootable floppy diskette in Windows XP or from the CD.
Once the bootable diskette is successfully created, follow the steps below to use the boot disk. Note This page provides details about creating a boot diskette, or floppy disk, for Windows and not how to create a bootable CD.
Tip After creating a boot diskette, it's highly recommended you write-protect the diskette to prevent any virus from infecting the disk or the disk getting erased. Creating a Windows 3.
Creating a Windows 95 boot disk. Creating a Windows 98 and ME boot disk. Creating a Windows NT boot disk. Creating a Windows boot disk. Creating a Windows XP boot disk. Copying additional files. How to use a boot disk. Note These steps are for users who have Windows 3.
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