Comments on: STEP 22 : Install The Operating System

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:32:00 +0000

Try going into the BIOS setup. There should be something that says something like “boot order” or “boot sequence.” Change the order so that your hard drive is the first thing to boot up. That should solve the problem.

By: Praseeda

Praseeda — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:04:00 +0000

how do i install windows operating system in PC????????

By: chris

chris — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:34:43 +0000

how to install d windows OS in the hard drive.. thanx.. need help because my OS is in the drive D..

By: SHAKEEL

SHAKEEL — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:16:24 +0000

YES U CAN USE

By: wheelnut53

wheelnut53 — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:26:02 +0000

dang the same thing happened to me last week the reason why I'm here to make sure it dont happen again

By: mac

mac — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:50:07 +0000

from my experience this would require a second computer in which you attach your hard drive to and then copy the windows file to that hard drive, unplug the hard drive and load it into your new PC

By: Itachisxeyes

Itachisxeyes — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 03:20:00 +0000

with some kind of bootdisk. most likely a DOS bootdisk since you'll be running the setup file as well. i actually do something similar, i mount the install disk's image to a jump drive and boot from the jump drive, which in today's lack of floppy drives seems more plausible.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:10:49 +0000

How do you copy the cd to hard drive before you have installed an OS?
Is this an option?

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:43:38 +0000

I do not know how to format a harddisk nor intalling an operating system from a hard disk please advice me.

By: Shelley

Shelley — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:35:06 +0000

I bought a 16GB SSD drive to upgrade the factory installed 8GB SSD and was installing the OS win XP pack3 CD when it produced an error report saying that the CD XP pack3 CD needed to be installed to find the file it was up able to detect called the ‘asms’ file’

THe CD it was requesting WAS the CD in the External CD/DVD driver that i was using (My Dell mini 9 doesnt come with built in CD Drive!).

In attempting to restart it..reboot it, what ever the correct terminology is… i believe in the process that i cancelled the Operation and from that point each time i rebooted the computer it would announce the same error report and on selecting the CANCEL button, a Fatal Error WARNING would appear with the comment

Fatal Warning THe operating system can not proceed (not exact words but the essence of the msg) and that the Operation was cancelled by the Owner!

Can someone get me the correct information for my Dell mini 9 computer to complete the windows XP OS install or to Wipe the existing content from the 16GB SSD so i can return it!
Im really really unhappy with the lack of real service from Dell …Basically out of 6 fruitless months of correspondence with Dells Tech help Desk i have found I person that knows what they are doing and even then they didnt provide the important information about the extent of the service from there Technician ( I can work a frickin Screwdriver…. ) NEVER mentioned Id be doing the OS install myself and therefore provide the necessary step by step instruction for MY PARTICULAR COMPUTER TYPE, after all THEY know what i own,. They HAVE my service tag ID!!!

HEEEEEELP PLEEEEASE!!