Formatting your drive?

Alright. Before anything else, make sure you have these things prepared before the setup:

*windows xp/vista cd and it's cd key.
*your video and sound drivers. (it's the cd that came in with your motherboard.)
*USB drive or a blank cd for backing up important files before format.
*iced tea. The setup's gonna take quite a while so... you might get thirsty.

Aryt. Now that you've got everything you need, start backing up them files.

~When that's done, insert you windows xp/vista cd and restart your system.
~Wait for the "press any key" sign, and well, press any key. LOL
~Wait until the loading process is done and follow the instructions.

     *You will be asked if you want to setup windows xp. Just press enter.
     *Press F8 (agree) to move on.
     *Choose the drive you want to format and press D to delete partition.
     *A confirmation will appear, just press L.
     *After that, you'll see an "unpartitioned space" and it's details. You have to create a partition if you plan on having dual drives. (Note: you can choose to install windows on a single drive using the whole hard disk space. But having two drives is more convenient.)
     *If you want to install windows using the whole HD space, just press ENTER.
     *From there, you will be asked if what kind of format you'd like to process. Choose "NTFS" only. Not the QUICK one. (Note: it's much slower, but it's much safer.)
     *It will then start to format the drive and install the necessary files. When it's done, it will restart on it's own. The "press any key" sign will appear again. Don't do anything. Just let it boot on it's own.
     *Wait until the Windows Xp logo comes up.
     *You will be then instructed by the cd. Things will get easier from there. All you have to do is click next and next.. until it's done with the installation.
     *Congratulations! You have just completed installing a fresh copy of windows.

INSTALLING THE DRIVERS.

Don't expect to have a fast frame rate and hear sounds after the windows setup.

Now you have to insert the Video and sound driver cds. Let it run on it's own. But if it doesn't have an Auto-Run, you could just open it manually. Open the Cd folders and double click SETUP.EXE. Instructions will be given from the setup window of your driver's cd.

After installing both drivers, restart your system and that's it!
I'm sorry I couldn't post pictures for this one. But I've got a video tutorial on YT. For more infos, send me an e-mail at: sleepy_me7@yahoo.com.ph




Video courtesy of Youtube and videotuner.