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2-13Lesson 2 Installing Windows XP Professional from a CD-ROM

not support booting from CD, you can create a set of floppy disks that will start the

computer and then initiate setup from the CD. After the installation has started, this

method proceeds just like booting from CD.

See Also Microsoft makes the tools for creating boot floppy disks for Windows XP

Professional Edition and Windows XP Home Edition available for download. Visit http://

https://traloihay.net and search by using the keywords Windows XP boot floppy to

locate these utilities.

If a computer is already running a previous version of Windows, you can simply insert

the Windows XP installation CD and use a setup wizard to begin the installation. Setup

gives you the choice of upgrading the existing operating system or performing a clean

installation.

Figure 2-3 shows the six steps involved in the text mode stage of Setup.

Boot1Load Setup program into memory2Start text-based Setup program3Create the Windows XP Professional partition4Format the Windows XP Professional partition5Copy setup files to the hard disk6Restart the computerSetup Wizard

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Figure 2-3

There are six steps in the text mode stage of Setup.

Running the Setup program involves the following steps: