BIOS Settings and OS installation
BIOS Setup
After successful installation of the machine power on the system.
You will be launched into the BIOS of the System. Different motherboards have slightly different BIOS setups.
In the BIOS you can set up your fans speed, change boot order, overclock your system and know your hardware information.
Selection of Operating System
You can select your system OS from many available Operating Systems (Windows, Unix, Linux etc).
Windows is the most popular OS.
Here I will show you how to install Windows on your Internal Disk.
First of all change boot order from BIOS settings, set USB hard disk on first priority.
OS Installation
Next, prepare a Windows bootable USB.
Requirements:
- USB drive of at least GB capacity.
- Running windows OS .
- Windows iso file which you can download from https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/software-download/windows10
- 25 digit product key.
- Any bootable USB creator software.
Here I will explain one of the Bootable USB creating tool
“Rufus” .
In the rufus selection box, select the USB drive for OS installation in the “device ” selection box.
In the “Boot selection” option select the windows iso image file.
In the “partition system” select GPT or MBR depending upon your BIOS
Morden BIOS supports the GPT partition system and older ones support the MBR partition system.
After all the necessary setups click on the ready button, wait for some time to complete the process and then safely remove the USB drive.
Insert USB drive in any of the available USB ports, and follow the installation instructions.
- Select language and keyboard format.
- Accept license terms.
- Select type of installation: upgrade or custom
Select “custom” for fresh installation.
Select “upgrade” for upgrade to a new version and keep data from your previous installation.
- Select installation partition.
If you are installing windows for the first time you may have to create partitions.
Or if you are upgrading from the lower version you will see a list of predefined partitions. If any of the partitions hold any important data do not format or delete them otherwise you will lose the stored data.
- Installing windows.
After selection of the windows partition final installation begins. Wait for some time to complete installation.
When windows restart remove the USB drive or you will again boot into the windows installation process.
Now the window will set up necessary features and settings to keep it running, wait and follow onscreen instructions.
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