How to install Windows XP using WinPE

This article describes how to install Windows XP using the WinPE system, which makes it easy to install the operating system with a PE system for bare-metal users. Generally like tomato garden, such as the ghost version of the system will have a WinPE system, it is not, you can download a burn on the web on a U disk, if not even a U disk, you can download the hard disk version WinPE installed on the hard disk, but installed on the hard disk installation system may be more trouble This article demonstrates that the installation method uses a PE system that is burned on a U disk.

First, what is the WinPE system

WinPE's full name is Windows Preinstallation Environment, which is understood to be a compact version of the Windows system that is typically used as a medium for CD-ROM or other portable devices, based on the Windows kernel running in protected mode, is a Win32 subsystem with fewer (but very core) services. These services are installed for Windows, network sharing, automatic low-level processing processes, and hardware validation. We can use WinPE system to manage and repair computers, install Windows operating systems, and so on.

Second, before the installation of the preparatory work:

1, prepare a WinPE system, if there is no PE system startup CD-ROM, you can download a burn on the web on a U disk, the specific recording method can refer to the "WinPE system installation to U Disk Production Tutorial" a article.

2, the preparation of Windows XP system, if not installed CD-ROM, you can download a Windows XP system CD image, specific reference to the Windows XP SP3 official English/Simplified/Traditional Chinese version of the article.

Iii. Installing the Windows XP method using WinPE

1, according to the type of start-up media, the BIOS to change the boot into a U disk or CD-ROM priority add-in, such as the production of WinPE U disk is to change the BIOS boot to boot from the USB settings, if it is WinPE disc, you need to boot the BIOS settings from the CD drive. For specific settings, please refer to the basic knowledge of BIOS and the common settings of the article.

2, after the start, the interface is as follows, the following model installation environment for the old Peaches WinPE 2.0 u disk version, if you download the installation of the PE system is another version, the start interface may also be different, but in short, it is prompted to enter the PE system.

3, after entering the PE system, click on "Start"-"program"-"Disk Disc tool", open the disc Image tool UltraISO or WinRAR. The following figure:

After you open the UltraISO software, unzip the Windows XP CD image to the XPSP3 folder on D or E (assuming that you will be installing to the C Disk system disk), UltraISO disc Image extraction method: Click on the "Files" tab in the software to select "Open" Windows XP disc image, then click on the "Action" tab, select "Extract", then extract to the D-disk or e-disk under the XPSP3 folder.

If you download the installed PE system version without UltraISO This software, you can also use the WinRAR software to extract the Windows XP CD image to the XPSP3 folder in D or E.

4, extraction or decompression is completed, the following installation files will be:

5, please check the system will be installed (assuming that C disk) there is still data need to back up, otherwise you can quickly format the partition. If you are using a U disk version of the WinPE guide, this time the U disk forced to pull down, to prevent the operating system wrong letter to the boot file copy to the U disk, this step is very important, and then double-click the SETUP.EXE in the figure above, and then appear in the following figure:

6. Choose "Install Microsoft Windows XP" to start installing XP, the default installation type is to upgrade the installation, please change to the new installation (Advanced) type, click Next.

7, then appear the License agreement interface, read the confirmation and then click Next:

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8, according to the prompts to enter the Windows XP installation key, and then click Next:

9, this step is the installation language and region selection, the default can be, here we click on "Advanced Options":

10, the Advanced option settings diagram below, select the I want to install during the installation drive letter and disk partition, click OK, and click the next step in the image above (pay special attention to the grayed out in the image below, if the virtual CD-ROM is installed here, be sure to choose to copy all the installation files from the installation CD. Otherwise restart the machine will not find the source installation file.

11, this step prompts whether to upgrade to the NTFS file system, if the system disk is already NTFS select No can, if it is fat can also choose Yes, no all can, not sure on the point, skip, into the next step:

12, this is to choose whether to get updates, select "No", skip this step to continue the installation, click Next.

13, after the completion of the installation program will start copying the relevant files, and then prompts the restart, in the PE system can not automatically restart, will be prompted to error warning, can be ignored, and then manually restart the machine, if it is the CD-ROM to start installation need to take out the CD.

14, when you restart your computer, you will automatically enter the Windows XP installation interface and begin to install Windows XP formally, simply by following the prompts to complete the installation.