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Tutorials -
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These steps apply if you are doing a clean new install erasing all previous data from your computer hard disk. When the installation cd detects your computer hardware and stop at a screen. Press Enter to start Installation. Then press F8 at the next screen to agree the licence agreement. In the next window you can delete existing partitions. By selecting the partition by arrow keys and pressing D, press L to confirm, delete all the partitions you will get one single unformatted space.
Now create new partitions in the unpartitioned space. Press C to create new partitions. When all unpartitioned space has been converted to new partitions, select the uppermost c drive, or c partition to install windows on.
Types of partitions
Primary partition : This is the type of partition needed to install an operating system.
Extended Partition: You can create an extended partition only when you have at least one primary partition on your hard disk
Logical drives: These are further partitions within an extended partition.
For win xp users : At the time of installation if you are unsure how much space to allocate to each partition. Then create only one partition C of 1/4 th of the size of your total hard disk capacity, or about 20 GB whichever is lower and after completing formatting and installation, you can create partitions in the remaining unpartitioned space. By going to start > control panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management. Look at the graphics of your hard disk. Right click on unpartitioned space to get a menu to create new partition. Choose the type and size of partition. Format the newly created partitions by right clicking on it and choosing the type of
filesystem either FAT32 or NTFS. The computer will format the drive. It will ask what type of format you want ntfs or fat32. For winXP ntfs is better, unless you have special resaons to convert in fat32 like accessibility to disk partition in linux.
More about Microsoft File systems
Microsoft file systems are FAT12, FAT16,FAT32,NTFS and NTFS5
all later versions starting with windows98 support FAT32 file system
NTFS was created with windows NT and all later versions support it.
Please read more about comparative performance of different microsoft file systems on the link below http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_vs_fat.htm
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