Installing Windows XP or 2000

Here are some suggestions for installing windows XP/ 2000.

• The first thing to notice is personally I install the operating system on one partition, while the applications and data on another partition.
• create a small partition of about 8 GIGS (FAT32 is ideal if you want to recover from file curroption)
• boot your computer from a floppy drive that will give you access to your CD ROM (see: http://www.bootdisk.com/ for a bootdisk with cd-rom drivers)
• create a folder on your c: drive called windowsxp
• copy the entire windows installation CD over to the folder c:/windowsxp (the dos command to copy the files are: xcopy d:\ c:\windowsxp /s note: d:\ is your cd-rom drive)
• once the files are copied, head over to the c:\windowsxp folder and find the i386 install folder and run winnt
• follow the onscreen instructions to install windows xp or windows 2000