How to install Windows XP from a disk. Methods for traditional and automatic installation of Windows XP from a disk How to boot windows xp from a disk

Detailed description of reinstalling Windows Xp on a computer or laptop
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Step #1. Burning a disc

If you have a disk with Windows XP, then you can safely skip this step and go to [step No. 2] since here we will talk about what to do if you do not have a disk with Windows, but have a key (for example, you bought a laptop with on which the OS was installed, there is a piece of paper pasted on the back or side of it, on which is the key that we need, or another situation, but as a result you should have a key to Windows). We copy the key number onto a piece of paper so that it is at hand, and move on. Select one of the versions of Windows Xp. Both versions are time-tested

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Now search the Internet Windows Xp Sp2 Professional license disk. Since distribution is illegal, we have no right to provide a link to Windows. But I will give you a link to the ORIGINAL VERSION of Windows xp sp3 proffessional - By the way, if you want a pirated version, I will give you a link, but considering, again, that I do not have the right to post files on my resource, I will give you a link to a torrent with Windows Xp sp3 Simplix Edition
Original version of Windows Xp Sp3
Download Windows Xp Simplex Edition
After you have downloaded the Windows Xp image, download the program to burn our image to disk
To do this, download a program to burn our image to disk
Download Portable ImgBurn
After the Windows image and our ImgBurn program have loaded:

Step #2. The disk is ready. Set the BIOS to First boot device CD-Rom

So, after Step #1 we have a disk with Windows Xp. At this stage our
the task is to get into the BIOS and set it to initially boot the disk with
installed Windows XP. To do this: Reboot or turn on
computer and press the delete key (there are other options, for example
F1,F2,F8,Ins.

The initial splash screen should usually show you which key to press to enter the BIOS

As a result, we should get to the BIOS blue screen, in our case it looks like this

We set the first boot from the Disk to do this, go (with the usual arrows) to Advanced Bios Features -> First Boot Device, select CD-Rom, press enter, then esc, go to save&exit setup, press enter, then Y and enter again.

Note: if you have a different BIOS, the essence does not change. The main thing is to find the First Boot Device and select CD-Rom. After step 2, the computer reboots itself and if you did everything correctly, then when you reboot, the message Boot from Cd/Dvd will appear on a black background:

And after a while Press any key to boot from Cd..

(press any key on the keyboard to boot from the disk), press the key. If a blue screen appears with the Windows installation at the top, then at this stage you have done everything correctly. If the keyboard cannot be pressed, you need to go into the BIOS and set SUPPORT USB: YES

Step #3 Formatting the partition. Installing XP or answering the question: " How to install Windows Xp for a teapot«

Now we wait (2-5 minutes) until a blue window appears with the inscription “Welcome to the installation program”

Press Enter, then read the agreement and then press the key F8

A) If you already have a partition where we will install Windows Xp formatted and created (if not, read point b) -> select the partition

If you see the message “The installation program is copying files,” everything is done correctly! Let's move on to point c

B) If the disk is not formatted

Select it and click on D

Attention: with this action we delete all data that is on the disk C:

Click L

Next, click “Unallocated area” WITH to create a new partition

Enter the size of our partition in megabytes

Select it from the list

Format in NTFS system (fast)

If the message “The installation program is copying files” appears, everything has been done correctly and you can now continue starting from point in

C) When the installation load reaches 100%, the computer will reboot itself. (When the reboot is in progress, we DO NOT PRESS ANYTHING, we just wait)

At the 33rd minute, fill in the language parameters

Enter Name and Organization

Product Key

After you have entered the key, the installation will continue and Windows will be installed for at least 10-15 minutes and we will not take part in this. When Windows is installed, the computer will reboot again and we will only have to fill in the account name, which Internet you are using, etc.

Congratulations, Windows XP has been successfully installed!

It may seem strange to some that in 2014 I am writing an article on installing such an old operating system. But as practice shows, people still often ask me to install Windows XP. In addition, in the past month alone, more than 30,000 queries for “installing windows xp” were entered in the Yandex search engine, which indicates the continued popularity of this version of Windows. And this is not surprising. There are many users who have become so accustomed to this operating system over the years that they are reluctant to explore new ones. They are happy with everything, because under Windows XP they can still while away the hours in games, the Internet, and various applications. It’s a matter of habit, what can I say 😉 There are also many people who own old computers. They simply have no choice, even if they wanted to install something fresh.

I will go directly to the essence of the article. To begin with, I strongly recommend that you read my entries “” and “”. Also, if you are installing a pirated version of Windows, you must write out the product key, without which installation will not be possible. The key can be viewed on the website where you downloaded the Windows image, in the description of the distribution. Another key may be in one of the text files of the image. Some pirated builds of Windows show you the key at the very beginning of the Windows installation. For licensed Windows, the key can be found on the sticker of the original disc box.

If you already have a bootable flash drive or disk, and in the BIOS you were able to set the computer to boot from the appropriate device, then you can start installing Windows. Insert a bootable USB flash drive into the computer’s USB port or a CD/DVD disk into an optical drive, and restart the computer. If you are installing the system from a disk, a white message should appear on a black screen with the text “Press any key to boot from CD...”. Immediately press any key to get into the Windows Installer. If you install Windows from a bootable USB flash drive, then you may see a boot menu where you must select the phrase “Windows 2000/xp/2003 setup” or “Installing Windows XP” (depending on the method you used to create the bootable USB flash drive) , press Enter. Next, select the 1st line with the text “First part of Windows XP setup from partition 0”, press Enter again. The Windows Installer should launch (blue screen titled “Installing Windows”). We wait for a while and don’t touch anything. When the “Welcome to Setup” screen appears, press Enter.

Next you will be forced to read the license :) Press the F8 key on your keyboard. A screen appears where you must select which logical drive you will install Windows on (recommended drive with the letter C), press Enter. Attention, all information from the selected disk will be destroyed! If you see “Unallocated area” instead of logical drives, you will have to create the drives manually. Press the C key and assign the volume of the future system disk (preferably at least 50,000 MB), confirm the choice with the Enter key.

In the next window, select “Format partition in NTFS system”, Enter again. After formatting, the process of copying Windows files to your hard drive begins. Wait until the computer shuts down and reboots. After rebooting, it is advisable to go into the BIOS and set your hard drive as the boot device (just as you set your flash drive or optical drive as the boot device).

The Windows installation process begins. Just watch until the computer asks you to intervene in the installation process. In the “Language and Regional Standards” window, leave everything by default, if you have it as in the figure below (if not, then select the country and language manually), click “Next”. In the “Setting program ownership” window, write what you want in the “Name” line, again “Next”.

In the next window, enter the product key (I wrote about it at the beginning of the article), click the “Next” button. Another window with time and date settings, change the time zone and date if necessary.

In the next two windows you don’t have to change anything, just click “Next”.

You can go have coffee or tea, Windows installation will continue without your participation. All that remains is to complete the basic setup once the installation is complete. Do as shown in the pictures below.

As a result, a window with screen parameters will appear, just click “OK” and then “OK” again. The Windows XP desktop loads. You did it! All that's left is .

Best regards, Alexander Molchanov

Preparing a disk with a distribution kit is the first stage of installing Windows XP. If you already have such a disk in your hands, you can skip this point, but if you downloaded a system image in ISO format from the Internet, you will need to use special programs (Nero Burning ROM, UltraISO and analogues) to burn it to a CD or DVD.

The Windows XP boot ISO file is a ready-made system image containing a complete set of installation data. It does not require any preliminary preparation, but is transferred to the CD unchanged.

Let's look at 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 toolbar at the top or press the F7 key.

Place a blank or rewritable DVD in the optical drive.
Make sure that the distribution you need is selected in the “Burn Image” window. Check the “Check” option if you want the disc quality to be checked after burning. Select the appropriate recording speed. Even if your laser drive can write at maximum speed, we recommend choosing medium or low speed. This will ensure good readability of your disk by any drive, including old ones.
A rewritable disc must first be erased by clicking on the button of the same name, and you can immediately start writing to a blank disc by clicking “Record”.

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

How to install Windows XP from a disc the traditional way

Traditional installation is a conventional system installation process that requires active user participation. Most often, Windows XP is installed in the traditional way.

At this stage, we have already prepared everything we need. In order to install Windows from a disk, we only need the disk itself and a computer with an optical drive on which the system will be installed. If you don’t have a drive, you can use an external one that connects to a USB port.

BIOS setup

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

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

Booting from disk and the Windows XP installation process

Place the laser disc in the drive and restart your PC. System installation begins by loading Windows XP files into the computer's RAM.

Next, Windows will greet you and offer you the option to continue the installation, exit the program, or restore itself using the recovery console. The second and third points do not suit us.

By pressing Enter you will continue the installation. The next step will ask you to accept the Microsoft license agreement for using Windows XP.

Next, select a location on the hard drive for the system partition. Click “C”, which means “Create partition”.

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

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

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

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

Once the copying is complete, the computer will restart.

The next boot of Windows XP will no longer be done 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 be required again. Here we will have 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. You can always enter it later.

The computer name and administrator password also need to 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 by default.

Leave the workgroup name as it is. You can always change it after installation.

At this point, the 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 designated as the computer administrator. You will also be prompted to activate Windows XP right now.

But 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 clicking “Next” will get boring for anyone. To simplify this work for those who have to do this often and for a long time, they came up with a way to install Windows without user intervention. To do this, a script is created in advance - a response file, which contains all the information necessary for the installer program.

The time has come 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 its help, we can either create a new or change an existing script. Since we don’t have any preparations, we’ll select “Create”.

We will leave the installation type as default – “automatic installation”.

Product version – Windows XP Professional.

User experience – “Fully silent installation” (if we do not plan to change the parameters in the answer file).

Next, 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 installing Windows from disk. First window: “Name and Organization”.

Screen options. They can be left as default (use Windows defaults).

Timezone.

Serial number (required!). Without entering the serial number here, you will not be able to proceed with creating the answer file and installing the system.

The names of the computers on which Windows XP will be automatically installed using this scenario.

And also: the administrator password, network components, the name of the workgroup or domain where this PC will belong, the country and city telephone code, locale standards, language support, Internet Explorer initial settings, Windows installation folder, printers and a number of other settings - in separate program windows.

Upon completion of the wizard, a file will be created unattend.txt- this is our script, thanks to which we can install Windows XP completely automatically.

If you install the system from a CD, you need to rename unattend.txt to winnt.sif.

Once you've created your answer file, you can add your own commands to it, which you can learn about in this article.

That's probably all. As you can see, there is nothing difficult about installing Windows XP according to a script without your own active participation. All that remains is to save the resulting file in the i386 folder of the distribution disk - in the same place where winnt32.exe - the Windows installer - is located.

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

Automation of installation by alternative means

Windows' own tools are not the only tool that allows you to install it “in one click.” There are also third-party applications for this, for example, Advanced Windows Unattended Installer. Creating scripts using this simple and free program is much faster and easier than using Windows. The only drawback of 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 Windows XP on your computer, 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.

Greetings. I decided to write about it today how to install Windows XP. They just brought me a computer, it’s kind of old, it’s already old. 256 MB RAM, Celeron processor, 40 GB hard drive. Well then? But whatever, XP is just right for him.

It’s just that everyone is already writing about installing Windows 8, but something has gone wrong with me. Well, oh well, I think that XP will still live, because whatever one may say, it’s a good OS and many people still work with it. I would like to immediately apologize for the photos; I took the photos on a 15-inch monitor and also on my phone. Ideally, of course, you could install Windows XP on a virtual machine and take beautiful screenshots, but I have a living example :).

Preparing to install Windows XP

Important! Make sure that drive C (the drive on which you have or have installed the operating system) does not contain information that is important to you. Desktop and folder "My Documents" is stored on drive C. If there is information, it can be copied to drive D using a boot disk.

If everything is fine, then we move on. Insert the Windows XP installation disc into your computer's drive and restart your computer. If, after the download starts, you see loading at the bottom of the screen (the dots will move), then everything is fine. Quickly press any key (we didn’t 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, but the computer started booting as usual from the hard drive, or an error appeared that caused you to reinstall the operating system, then it means that you don’t have boot from the drive set first in your BIOS. 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 “Boot” tab.

Click “Boot Device Priority”.

Using the “Enter” and “Top” “Down” keys, set CD/DVD first, 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 press any key, we see this:

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

In this window, press “Enter”.

We accept the license agreement by pressing the F8 key.

As you can see, I have already found an old version of Windows XP and you can try to restore it, but I think you also need a clean installation, so press “Esc”.

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

Confirm the installation 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 wait until the partition on the hard drive is formatted.

Copying files from the disk will start immediately, wait again :(.

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

Enter your name and organization name. Go ahead.

Setting the time and date. Click “Next”.

We're waiting again, just don't go too far :).

I left “Regular settings” and clicked “Next”.

You can register with Microsoft. But I refused. Let's continue.

We specify users by computer.

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 of 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 still entered the key, I forgot to take a photo. But in the assembly from ZWER there seems to be no such item. Well, if it asks for a key, then look for it in the text file that you most likely downloaded with the disk image.

Well, that's it. Good luck friends!

As everyone knows, to work with a computer we need an operating system, which over time becomes unusable due to viruses, junk and other factors. Many people think that it is better to turn to a professional for reinstallation, but I offer you step-by-step instructions for installing Windows XP. After studying it, you will have no doubt that you can install Windows XP yourself.

Why do you have to reinstall Windows?
According to statistics, even if you have good computer protection from viruses and careful handling, you still have to reinstall Windows xp every three years. The “garbage” that accumulates in the system is sometimes leftovers from the removal of programs and games, which contain settings, configuration files and other system files of the old application. Many programs make entries in the registry, and after deleting the entry remains “live” in the system. It also happens that the computer hangs and there is no way to “revive” it, and the conclusion suggests itself: you need to install a new Windows xp.

Setting up your computer to boot from disk.
Usually, when the computer boots, the motherboard splash screen appears for a moment, then the post is checked, and now we see the “Windows XP” greeting. To install, we do not need to launch Windows itself, but we need to launch a disk with our windows xp image. To do this you need to go to Bios. To enter Bios, you must press the DEL or F1 key when turning on the computer. (On laptops use F1, F2, F3, DEL, Ctrl+Alt+Esc. If more than one combination does not work, then you need to look on the official website for how to enter bios).

Most often there are only two types of bios:

1. Phoenix AwardBIOS.
If you have this particular version, then you need to do the following: enter the Advanced BIOS Features section, select First Boot Device and assign the value CD-ROM. Then press the F10 key (to save the settings and exit) and select Yes in the dialog box that appears.

2. American Megatrends BIOS.
In this version, the background will be gray and the sections will be written in a line at the top. First you need to enter the Boot section, then the Boot Device Priority subsection and in the 1st Boot Device item select your CD-ROM drive. And just like in Phoenix AwardBIOS, press the F10 key and confirm Yes.
This completes the computer setup.

Launch the windows installer.
The first step is to insert the Windows disk into the drive and restart the computer. On the dark screen we will see the inscription “Press any key to boot from CD”, which means press any key to boot the disk, which is what we do. This inscription is displayed for no more than five seconds, so you need to immediately press any key. If you didn’t have time, you should restart the computer and press the key again.

On the monitor we will see that the Windows installation has started. There is no need to interfere unless you want to install a special RAID or SCSI driver. In this case, you need to press the F6 key.

Next we will be asked:
1. Start installing windows xp (Enter key)
2. Restore Windows (R key)
3. Exit the installer (F3 key)

We press Enter and the license agreement appears; to agree and continue the installation, press F8. Next, you need to select the hard drive partition on which the installation will be performed. If the disk is new and there is only an unallocated area on it, you need to create a partition (C key), specify the required size in it.

We will also be offered quick and regular formatting of the hard drive. Formatting is best done as usual with the ntfs file system. After all, the long-awaited installation of windows xp will finally begin; upon completion, the computer will reboot itself and a window will appear with the inscription “Press any key to boot from CD”, this time we are not pressing anything!

A window like this will appear in which you don’t need to change anything, but in the next one, be sure to enter the Name and Organization.

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