Installing windows 7 OS

procedure
Available windows versions

1.Windows 7 Home Premium - the standard version

installed with most home PCs and includes all of the
features listed above.
2.Windows 7 Professional - typically installed on
business computers and includes all the Home
Premium features as well as additional features such as
Windows XP mode (XPM) and Domain Join.
3.Windows 7 Ultimate - the most complete version,
which has all of the Professional features as well as
BitLocker data protection and additional language
support.
Windows 7 requirements
1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit
(x64) processor*

1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-

bit)

16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB

(64-bit)

DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or

higher driver
procedure
Step-1

Turn on your computer, insert the Windows 7

installation DVD in your computer’s optical drive
or USB flash drive, and then shutdown your
computer.
Step-2

-Restart your computer, after the BIOS screen

flashes by, press any key when prompted “Press
any key to boot from CD or DVD…”, as shown in
below screenshot.
-If your system does not boot from the DVD or
USB flash drive, and you’re not asked to press
any key, you may need to change some system
settings. To learn how to do this, see how to fix
windows 7 installation problems.
Step-3

After loading Windows 7 installation files, the

Install Windows screen appears, here you can
enter the language, time and currency formats.
and then click Next button.
Step-4

To continue with Windows 7 Interactive Setup,

click Install now.
Step-5

On the next screen please read the license terms

page appears, you must agree to the End User
License Agreement (EULA). If you accept the
license terms, click I accept the license terms
check box, and then click Next button
Step-6

In the which type of installation do you want?

window, select Custom (advanced) as the install
type. If you booted from the Windows 7 disc or
USB Flash drive, the Upgrade option does not
work, even though it appears to be available (if
you try to choose it, you will get an error
message).
Step-7

In the where do you want to install Windows?

window, choose the disk, or partition, to which you
want to install Windows 7 on, and then click Next
button. Here, I am using a freshly formatted disk
with no existing partitions and that I want to use all
unallocated space as my system drive.
Step-8

After you have selected the disk or partition where

you want to install Windows 7, the setup will start
copying various installation files, expand the
Windows 7 image file from the DVD to the hard
drive, install Windows 7 and complete the
installation by configuring your hardware devices.
Step-9

After reboot, You can complete the second, and

final, interactive phase of installation, which
include naming your computer and setting up an
initial user account.
THANK YOU

Prepared by SR Reddy.