Vista operating system skills 2

[three] modify the drive letter of other devices such as CD-ROM (optional) ★ If you do not need to create a new hard disk partition drive letter is continuous, you can skip this part. 5. In order to keep the drive letter of the hard disk partition continuous, you need to modify the drive letter of other devices before starting the partition operation. ★ If there are multiple devices (such as two CD-ROM drives) under Disk 0, you need to modify the drive letter from the bottom of the device. 6. Click "Change" in the window that opens.

7. Change the drive letter of the device as needed, and then click "OK". Click "Yes" to confirm the changes.

[4] Reduce the Vista system partition C:, release the hard disk space to create a new partition 8. Right click on the OS (the block area where C is located, and left click on the "compressed volume" in the pop-up menu. Wait The system completes the query for available compressed space.

9. After inputting the size of the hard disk space you want to release, click “Compress”.

★Vista Disk Management Compressed Volume has the following functions: Restrictions: 1. Only the space behind the hard disk partition can be released. 2. Because there is an MFT reserved area in the middle of the NTFS partition, it can only release less than half of the capacity of one partition. 3. Unlike the software such as partition magic, here What can be set is the hard disk space that you want to release.

[5] Create a new partition 10. Right click on the unallocated space obtained by the previous operation, and left-click in the pop-up menu. Click “New Simple Volume”. 11. After the New Simple Volume Wizard interface appears, click “Next.” 12. Enter the size of the partition you want to create, and click “Next”.

13, then Continue to click "下下" Step by step.

14. Set the volume label as needed and select “Execute Quick Format”, then click “Next”.

15. Click “Finish”.

16. After the status of the newly created partition changes to "Good state", "Refresh" to prevent some strange problems from appearing behind. ★ Remember to perform a "Refresh" in the "Operation" menu after each new partition is created. Operation.

17. Repeat the previous operation and continue to create partitions as needed.

18. Close the computer management window after all is completed.

Vista operating system installation diagram

Since the new Inspiron 530/530s uses a different BIOS than the previous Dell machine, the method of booting from the CD-ROM is slightly changed.

1. After booting Once the F2...F12... prompt appears in the upper right corner of the self-test screen, immediately press the F12 key on the keyboard.

2. After the boot device selection menu appears, insert the bootable disc into the CD-ROM drive. Wait a moment, then select CDROM and press Enter to try Boot from CD-ROM drive

Note: Dell's different BIOS designs are different, so the following is not necessarily the same as your machine, but the central idea is still the CD-ROM option. Below are two common desktops. BIOS, notebook may be slightly different, not one by one ^_^

3, press 『Enter』 key to enter, when the top left corner of the screen appears as shown below, in 5 seconds If you see the prompt, if you do not press the space bar in time, you will not be able to boot from the CD into the installer.

4, then the Windows Vista installer will start loading. Br>

5, the initial interface of the installation program, generally do not need to change the settings, just click "Next" to start the installation.

6. Click "Install Now" in the subsequent interface.

7. Select "I accept the license terms" and click "Next".

8. Click the "Custom (Advanced)" option to continue the installation process.

9. Click on the drive advanced settings as shown.

Second, the method of partitioning the hard disk during installation ★ If you do not need to re-partition the hard disk, please skip this section and directly see the contents of the third part.

10, select the partition to delete and click "Delete".

Confirm deletion.

11, if you need to continue to delete other partitions, also select the partition, click "Delete".

12, after all the partitions are deleted, and then click "Create Partition" to rebuild the partition.

★★★ Here is an example of creating a new 30GB partition. China Testing Network (www.Examw.com)

★ Tip: How to get an integer size partition under Vista. Since Windows calculates the hard disk capacity by 1GB=1024MB, if you enter 10000 when setting the partition size, you cannot get a partition of exactly 10GB in Windows. Considering that the Windows installer will automatically make a certain choice of the size of the input, so "the value to be entered" = "the number of GB to be divided" & times; 1024 + 1 '. For example, if you divide 10GB, enter 10241 (10× 1024+1=10241); 20GB, enter 20481, and so on.

13. After selecting the unallocated space, click New again to continue the partition.

This time we divide the 20GB space into the second partition. According to the tips described above, you need to enter 20481.

14. Continue to divide the remaining unallocated space into the third partition.

★Note: Even if you are preparing to divide 4 or more partitions, you need to divide the remaining unallocated space into the third partition. Due to the limitations of the Vista installer, the partition interface that is booted from the CD can only create a primary partition. Because the hard disk can only support up to 4 main partitions, and the Dell tool partition reserved by the Dell computer is also a primary partition, there can be only three zones. To divide 4 or more partitions, you can use the disk management function to complete the operating system.

[3] Format the hard disk and complete the installation

15. Click the mouse to select the partition where you want to install Vista, and then click “Format” to format the partition. ★If you install Vista to the newly created partition, you can also click “Next” without formatting the hard disk.

If the original data in this partition, the following message will appear, please click "determine".

16. Click “Next” to continue the installation process

17. The installation program will start the automatic work, and the computer may restart automatically several times.

18. After the installation is complete, the first time you start Vista, you will be asked to set a username.

19, then the computer name and desktop background settings.

20, Vista automatic protection settings, of course, select "use recommended settings."

21, time zone, date and time settings, confirm the correct and click "Next".

22, the network environment settings used by the computer.

23, click "Start" after completing all settings.

24, it takes a long time to detect the system and optimize the settings before entering the desktop for the first time. Wait patiently for a while.

25, after the first time you enter the desktop, immediately restart the system to avoid some strange problems.

26, the welcome center will still pop up automatically after restarting. If you don't like it, you can refer to the following figure for setting.