~*Windows Seven,Vista,XP,98 Installation Step by Step With Screen Shots*~

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Final Step: My Windows 7 beta 1 desktop is here! Ready to go! Overall a pretty easy installation really. This would be a breeze to walk someone over the phone with, and most some-what savvy computer people can surely do this on their own. I didn't need any special computer knowledge, or really any knowledge beyond reading to understand this. A good installation in my book, even installing Linux these days is just as simple, as is OS X.

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~*Windows Seven installation Completed*~


~*Windows Vista installation Start*~

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Step 1: Boot the computer from the Windows Vista installation DVD of your choice. Picking either the 32bit or 64bit depends on whether your hardware can support

Step 2: Press any key when prompted.

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Step 3: Choose your preferred language from the drop-down menu.

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Step 4: Click on the Install Now button unless you want to explore the other options.

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Step 5: Windows Vista is working in the background. This may take several minutes depending on the system.

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Step 6: This screen is where you enter your product key or "CD Key" as it is sometimes called.
After entering your product key, press the Next button.

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Step 7: Here we see the License Agreement you must accept before continuing.

After reading the agreement, check the box next to "I accept the license terms".

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Step 8: Here we would be able to choose an "Upgrade" install (if running setup from a previous version of Windows, such as XP) or a "Custom" (clean) install.

Select the whole box containing "Custom (advanced)" to continue to the next screen.

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Step 9: This is where you can select which hard drive/partition to install Vista on. Since this system only has one hard drive, only one place Vista can go. Advanced options are shown in the next screen shot.

This is also where you would install drivers for your RAID/ACPI controller by using the "Load Driver" option. After the installation of the RAID/ACPI drivers, your hard drives should appear as shown on the right.

If no additional drivers are needed, select the Next button.

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Step 10: The advanced options allow creation of multiple partitions and the option of formatting existing partitions.

After finishing your particular partition configuration that you desire, select the Next button.