Steps to reformat a personal computer:
1.Start your PC and press key F2, F12, or delete key (depends on your PC model)
Your PC BIOS settings will be displayed. Find boot menu. In boot device priority select CD-ROM as first device.
Your PC BIOS settings will be displayed. Find boot menu. In boot device priority select CD-ROM as first device.
2. Your PC will boot from CD and windows installations will start. Press Enter at this screen.
3. Accept license agreement by pressing F8 key.
4. Delete the partitions.
5. Create the partitions.
6. Define the size of partitions.
7. Now select your desired portion for installation of windows XP and press enter.
8. Choose the format of the partition. choose NTFS file system quick.
9. Setup will format the partition
10. After formatting, setup will start copying the files on to the hard disk.
11. After copying of files, setup will start installing windows.
12. Select desired language and regional settings, when prompted by setup.
13. Enter windows key.
14. Type a home for your computer,
15. Select time and date settings and and time zone according to your country.
16. Provide network settings for networking PC's select typical settings and press enter.
17. Setup will install devices and register components.
18. After completion on setup will do a clean up effects of files and will restart your PC automatically. At this stage you can remove CD.
To create a Partitions:
What is disk partitioning?
Disk partitioning is the creation of one or more regions on a hard disk or other secondary storage, so that an operating system can manage information in each region separately.
Partitioning is typically the first step of preparing a newly manifactured disk, before any files or directories have been created.
Remember :
1 KB = thousand bytes
1 MB = million bytes
1 GB = billion bytes
1 TB = trillion bytes
1 KB = 1024 bytes
1 MB = 1024 KB
1 GB = 1024 MB
1 TB = 1024 GB
Original size/capacity = 40955
P1 = 50 % = 40955 X .50 = 20498
P2 = 50% = 40955 X .50 = 20498
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