2. 1) This is the Windows Setup Screen. You can see here
that windows setup is loading the driver files it needs to
continue with installation.
3. 2)The Welcome to Setup screen appear next giving the
user the option of to continue Setup by pressing ENTER,
Repair a previous installation by pressing R, or to quit
installation by pressing F3.
4. 3) The "Windows 2000 Licensing Agreement" screen, otherwise known as "EULA,"
displays the legal information for the Windows software package. Press F8 to
agree with the terms, hit ESC if you do not agree and PAGE UP or PAGE DOWN to
scroll through each screen. Note: If you do not agree to the terms, setup will quit
and reboot the system.
5. 4) This is the hard drive partitioning options. Here you can use the existing partition to set up
an new Windows 2000 (press Enter). You may also delete the existing partition (press D) and
create a new partition (press C). I advise you to delete the existing partition so all files will be
deleted.
6. 5) After you press D, a warning screen shows informing you that the partition
you are trying to delete contains system files needed to boot from windows 2000
and giving you two options. If you are sure with what you are doing, press
ENTER, if not or you change your mind, press ESC key.
7. 6) A confirmation screen appear showing the information of
partition size to be deleted. At this point, you have two options.
Press L if you really want to delete the partition and press ESC key if
you change your mind and dont want to delete the partition.
8. 7) After the deletion, no partition is being shown.
Now you can create a new partition (press C)
9. 8) Enter the partition size suitable for Windows 2000 and see to it that
other programs and files should fit on it. In this example, I created half
of the hard drive maximum size.
10. 9) After entering the partition size, press ENTER to confirm
the creation, press ESC if you want to go back on the
previous option.
11. 10 windows setup informs you to format the selected partition. It will give you two
options: Format the partition using the NTFS (New Technology File System) or
Format the partition using FAT (File Allocation Table). Since Windows 2000 support
NTFS, select the type of partition using up arrow key and press ENTER.
12. 11) The yellow progress bar appear indicating that Windows setup is
formatting the partition.
13. 12) After the formatting, Windows setup should create a list of files to
be copied from your bootable disc to the partition.
14. 13) Windows setup at this point is copying all important
files needed to boot the hard drive and continue the
installation.
15. 14) This screen appear after the files were copied. Below the screen,
you could read that Windows setup is now loading all necessary files for
installations.
16. 15) The red progress bar appear and Windows setup informs you that a portion of
Setup is complete. Your computer should restart automatically or you could
manually restart it by pressing ENTER. Make sure that you will not press any key
after the reboot.
17. 16) This is the Windows setup boot screen. Just wait because it should
automatically load the setup.
18. 17) This screen is now a part of GUI (Graphical User Interface) setup
process. Just wait for it to proceed on the next screen.
19. 18) This is the Windows setup wizard dialog box. Click next to continue.
20. 19) The next dialog box is Installing devices. Just wait until the setup
wizard finish the installing of devices such as mouse and keyboard.
21. 20) The Reional Settings dialog box appear giving you the options to
customize system regional location. The default here is United
States. You may also customize the keyboard layout. If you want to
use the default select Next.
23. 22) Enter the unique 25 digit Product Key. You can find it on your
Windows 2000 CD then select the Next button.
24. 23) Type the name you like for this computer and set an administrator
password for security.
25. 24) Configure the correct time, date and Time Zone suitable for your
country. This could be done by clicking the drop down and up arrow
button.
26. 25) A blue progress bar appear indicating that networking
components are automatically installing.
27. 26) The Network Settings Dialog box appear giving you two options. Select the
radio buttons for Typical Settings if you want to standard settings or click the radio
button for Custom settings if you want to make your own selections. Then click
Next to continue.
28. 27) The Workgroup or Computer Domain dialog window appear asking you if you want
your computer to be a member of a domain. Click the Radio buttons of your selection.
If you choose Yes, you may need to enter the workgroup name or computer domain
then click Next button.
29. 28) Installing Components dialog window appear. At this
point, Windows setup is copying all files and installing iton
your hard drive.
30. 30) Performing the final tasks window showed up. Here you will see that Windows
setup Install start menu items, registers windows components, save settings and
removes any temporary files used.
31. 31) Completing the Windows 2000 Setup Wizard appear. Just click next
to continue.
32. 32) Windows 2000 boot screen appear again. Just wait until new
window show up.
33. 33) The Network Identification Wizard window appear. Just click next to
continue on installations.
34. 35) On the Connecting to the network dialog window, select the option that best
describe your computer. Click the radio button and click Next. On this example I
choose the the first option which tells that this computer is a part of a business
network and I use it to connect to other computer.
35. 35. You are done! The windows 2000 appear showing you the desktop along its first
window which is the Getting Started with Windows 2000.
