Windows 7
How to Install Windows 7
Here are the following steps for installing Windows 7 operating system,
First of all download the Windows 7 ISO image from the Microsoft.
Preparing DVD from the ISO image
Since many of the people are installing Windows 7 in a real hardware, for that, first of all burn the DVD from the ISO image, using DVD burner software and a blank DVD.
Setting up Computer & BIOS (if required)
You have to reboot your computer after popping in all new Windows 7 DVD. In most cases you’ll automatically boot in the Windows 7 Installation DVD. But in some rare cases you have to change the setting of BIOS as per the requirement.
Booting Up
Steps from here are pretty straight forward. Read the each and every descriptions in each pages before clicking the Next button to avoid any disasters. If there is an options to choose in these steps you may find them with each image.
Follow the step as per in the image for the installation,
You can choose your Language from dropdowns, Time and Currency format, and Keyboard or input method here.
Choose 'I accept the license terms' checkbox and click 'Next'.
Choose as per the installation do you want.
Upgrade options:- Is for those who wish to upgrade an existing installation of older version of Windows.
We will opt for the second option here, Custom install.
Choose where did you want to install Windows 7.
Choose the drive.You have to make sure that the drive in which you are installing Windows 7, should don't have important data or the Windows 7 installation copy.
Creating an Partition or Modifying it.
Click on the Drive options (advanced) for advanced partition management options like 'Delete', 'Format', 'New' and 'Extend'. To create a new partition click the New button. But if you have list of partitions, choose the one where you are planning to install windows 7 and click Format. Then click 'Next' to proceed.
The 'New' option provides a text box to enter the size of the partition you wish to create in MBs. A 15 GB (15*1024 = 15360 MB) is recommended. In this case I opted for the full size of my virtual drive, i.e. 9216 MB. Click the Apply button to continue. Windows may be greeted you with a message To ensure that all Windows features work correctly, windows might create additional partitions for system files. . This is a new feature in Windows 7 to have a small boot partition for system files. Click Okto continue.
