2007-03-01 22:49:05 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Put the cd into the drive and restart the computer. Press F12 (usually) to bring up the boot menu when the splash screen starts. As soon as you get the boot menu, tell the pc to boot from the cd drive. It will ask if your doing a recover, or install. Do the install, clean install, and format the drive. This completely erases your drive and reinstalls the operating system, but gives you the best installation since it totally erases your hard drive.
2007-03-01 23:00:58 · answer #1 · answered by tw0cl0n3m3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the version which you are going to install is newer than the current version installed,when you insert the CD or DVD into the drive,there will be a option in the setup program to upgrade to new version. If you are doing in this way(that means upgrading)you can install the new Windows by overwriting the old one.
If the windows you want to install is older than the installed version or if the upgrade option is not available,you can do a clean installation by formatting the drive in which the current version is installed and by booting from the Setup CD and following the on-screen instructions.
If you are formatting the drive, please remember that all the data and programs installed on that drive will be lost.
You can boot from the CD directly and install if you don't want any of the data in the drive in which the current version is installed.
2007-03-01 23:04:12 · answer #2 · answered by Jonnan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No no need to uninstall the older version because if you uninstall previous you will lose every thing including D:,E:,F: drives data.So better is you just overwrite it to new version.
2007-03-02 01:47:58 · answer #3 · answered by siddiqali 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will be a good idea to uninstall the old version first. If you're installing VISTA there has been a few problems with it so keep the Windows XP DISC incase you want to switch back.
2007-03-01 23:10:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
properly you'll favor to backup your information to an exterior confusing stress first before you do something. after it truly is needed to position in living house windows 7 as a custom installation and choose the partiton that has the xp put in on it (in case you %. a diverse partition except the only with xp on it, your bootloader will be deleted even as deleting the xp partition). After that restore the data you sponsored up.
2016-12-05 03:33:20 · answer #5 · answered by boshell 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Best would be to just install a fresh copy rather than upgrading - this will avoid keeping up all unwanted data onto your drive - you can always copy the essential data to another partition and than go ahead installing with a format of drive.
2007-03-01 22:54:33 · answer #6 · answered by Dushyant G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If u r using a bootable copy of windows CD (the one that boots frm the CD when it is in the CD-ROM when the computer starts)
then it should ask u wat HARDDRIVE u want to instqall to and if u want to format it first (FAT32 best for XP) and if u install it on the older copy it will tell before it start to install the windows that a version of windows already exists.
2007-03-01 22:56:38 · answer #7 · answered by Venom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Better to do a clean install. Select Format from options after booting up from the CD. To boot from CD you may have to change boot option in BIOS so CD Drive is first bootable device.
Then select Format before new install.
2007-03-01 22:55:37 · answer #8 · answered by Data 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're doing an upgrade you have to overwrite. If you are doing a full install, you can do it either way.
2007-03-01 22:55:07 · answer #9 · answered by Jeff W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You generally don't *HAVE* to, but it's always suggested. It eliminates the possibility of any partition errors and obsolete files being carried over into the new install.
If you're moving from 98/ME/2k, to XP/Vista, duing the install, delete the previous partition, and create a new NTFS (not Quick!).
BUT! That's only if you've backed up all of your files (did you remember your bookmarks?).
2007-03-01 22:54:04 · answer #10 · answered by winopride 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋