How Install Win7

This step-by-step guide demonstrates how to install Win 7 Ultimate. The guide is similar for other versions of Win 7 such as Home Premium.

The best way to install Win 7 is to do a clean install. It is not difficult to perform a clean installation. Before you start the installation process I recommend that you check Win 7 System Requirements list to ensure that your hardware is supported by Win 7. If you don’t have Win 7 drivers for all your hardware, it is a good idea to download all the drivers from the hardware manufacturers website and save all the necessary drivers on a CD-R or a USB drive before you start the installation.

Win 7 DVD is bootable. In order to boot from the DVD you need to set the boot sequence. Look for the boot sequence under your BIOS setup and make sure that the first boot device is set to CD-ROM/DVD-ROM.

Step 1 – Place Win 7 DVD in your dvd-rom drive and start your PC. Win 7 will start to boot up and you will get the following progress bar.

Step 2 – The next screen allows you to setup your language, time and currency format, keyboard or input method. Choose your required settings and click next to continue.

Step 3 – The next screen allows you to install or repair Win 7. Since we are doing a clean install we will click on “install now”.

Step 4 – Read the license terms and tick I accept license terms. Then click next to continue.

Step 5 – You will now be presented with two options. Upgrade or Custom (Advanced). Since we are doing a clean install we will select Custom (Advanced).

Step 6 – Choose where you would like to install Win 7. If you have one hard drive you will get a similar option to the image below. You can click next to continue. If you have more that one drive or partition then you need to select the appropriate drive and click next.

If you need to format or partition a drive then click Drive options (advance) before clicking next.