| Windows XP, developed by Microsoft used on | | | | Network adapter card, keyboard, mouse, etc., |
| personal computers, also home and business | | | | are properly attached. |
| desktops, laptops, and media centers. XP | | | | |
| means eXPerience, given the codename | | | | Basic hardware requirements to install |
| "Whistler", after Whistler, British Columbia. | | | | windows XP can be summed up like this- |
| Windows XP is the successor to both Windows | | | | Processor: Pentium II processor running at |
| 2000 Professional and Windows Me, first | | | | 233MHz or faster, 300MHz being recommended. |
| released on October 25, 2001. Succeeded by | | | | RAM can be of 64MB or 128 MB, 1.5 GB free |
| Windows Vista, which was released to volume | | | | hard disk space is needed for the booting |
| license customers on November 8, 2006, and | | | | purpose,2 GB will b comfortable. Video card |
| worldwide to the general public on January | | | | and monitor must have VGA resolution, network |
| 30, 2007.Hardware and software requirements | | | | card has to be PXE-enabled or a network boot |
| are minimal and simple. | | | | disk and network card for a network-based |
| | | | installation. For other appliances like |
| Some of the most common editions of the | | | | CD-ROM or DVD drive for CD-ROM or DVD based |
| operating system are Windows XP Home Edition | | | | installations, keyboard and a pointing |
| and Windows XP Professional. Along with these | | | | device, respectively. |
| two others are windows XP Media Center | | | | |
| Edition ,windows XP Tablet PC Edition .Also | | | | Software needed to start the installation is |
| two different 64-bit versions of Windows XP | | | | WINNT.EXE and WINNT32.EXE from the command |
| were also released, Windows XP 64-bit Edition | | | | line. WINNT is used for installation from a |
| for IA-64 (Itanium) processors and Windows XP | | | | DOS or boot disk and Windows 3.0. WINNT32.EXE |
| Professional x64 Edition for x86-64. | | | | can be run from Windows 95, Windows 98, |
| | | | Windows Me, Windows NT 4, or Windows 2000 |
| Few things to keep in mind before | | | | Professional command prompt. Several |
| installation: first, run the Setup program, | | | | functions of WINNT.EXE are: it specifies the |
| checking hardware and software compatibility | | | | location of the Windows XP Professional |
| with the Windows XP Professional list, secure | | | | source files. If the required files are not |
| that the hard disk partition is enough to | | | | in the current folder, the location must be a |
| meet the space requirement. The hard disk | | | | full path of the form, indicates an |
| should be partitioned with the FAT/FAT32 or | | | | identifier (id) that Setup uses to determine |
| NTFS file system. Confirm other required | | | | which values in the UDF file are used to |
| peripheral devices such as the CD-ROM drive, | | | | override the values in the answer file. |