64-bit Win XP installation and the difference with 32-bit

There are many options for installing a new system. The following will address the choice of options and computer networking in the installation.

(1) Preparations

1. Hardware Requirements

RAM: 1GB (minimum);

Intel Itanium-based Microprocessor: 733 Hz MHz (minimum);

Hard disk space: 6GB (minimum);

Adaptive NIC;

2, check the compatibility of hardware and software

Windows XP automatically checks the hardware and software during installation and gives all potential hardware and software conflicts. Therefore, to ensure the success of the installation, you must determine if your computer hardware is compatible with Windows XP 64-bit Edition before installation. (Refer to the Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) www.microsoft.com/hcl
on the Microsoft website.) Windows XP 64-bit Edition only supports devices in the HCL list. When installing, you can use Dynamic Update to get the latest Windows XP 64-Bit Edition installation files.

3, get network information

First, you need to determine whether the computer is joined to a domain or a workgroup. If you don't know how to choose or if your computer is not connected to the internet, select the workgroup workgroup option. (You can join the domain after installing Windows XP.)

If the computer is currently connected to the Internet, please confirm the information from the network administrator before installation: computer name or TCP/IP address in the workgroup ( When your network does not have a DHCP server). To connect to the network during installation, ensure that the hardware is properly installed and connected to the Internet.

4, disk partitioning requirements

Itanium-based computers have special partitioning requirements. When you first install Windows XP, the hard drive is automatically split into two partitions. The first partition is a FAT partition of approximately 100MB, called the EFI system partition, which is used to store EFI automatically open Windows XP programs and information files. The second partition MSR partition is 32MB, which provides the disk space required by the operating system to perform operations. If you need more hard disk space, the MSR partition will be the first partition on your other hard drive and all subsequent hard drives. Only EFI system partitions are very important to the computer and must be in the root driver.

Note:
It is recommended to install Windows XP 64-bit Edition with a minimum partition size of 6GB.

(b) mounting Windows XP 64-bit Edition

Windows XP 64-bit Edition installed in two stages. The first phase of the text-mode installation, which copies files to the computer and checks the hardware and installs the configuration. You can choose to create multiple partitions at this stage. After these operations are completed, the computer restarts. The second phase of GUI-mode installation, this phase of collection information such as locale, username and password, network information. After that, the computer restarts again.

1. First installation

Install Windows XP on a blank machine. The EFI system partition and MSR partition will be created automatically during installation. It is recommended to create a separate data partition with no less than 6GB to install the operating system.

The specific operation is: install through the Windows XP 64-bit Edition CD. When "Press any key to boot from CD-ROM..." appears, press any key to start the Windows XP text-mode installation. If the CD does not run automatically, go to the EFI command line interpreter location, select CD-ROM drive, and type: setupldr. In the prompted installation window, determine the size of the data partition. It is recommended to install Windows XP 64-bit Edition with a minimum data partition of 6GB. Then follow the prompts and the computer will automatically restart once the GUI-mode installation is complete.

Note: EFI system partition and MSR partition are automatically created during installation. If you want, you can also create your own EFI system partition, but it is recommended to use Setup to create partitions.

2. Installation of the updated version

Installing the updated version of Windows XP 64-bit Edition is very simple. It will detect and install the appropriate driver, otherwise it will issue a report that cannot update the driver, and you can determine if your hardware and software are compatible with Windows XP 64-bit Edition. (The specific installation of the Windows XP 64-bit Edition update CD will be updated.)

3, user information and computer information collection

Windows XP installation can help collect information about you and your computer information. Although most of the installation process is automatic, you may need to provide some information or select some settings in the following pages, depending on your computer configuration:

First, agree to the Licensing protocol, choose Special option. You can install Windows XP in multiple languages ​​and Regional Settings. Regional Settings: Change the current settings of systems and users in different regions and languages. Personalize Your Software: Enter the full username and organization, computer name and authentication password. Enter a unique computer name to distinguish it from other computers, workgroups, or domain names.

SETUP automatically creates an administrator account at installation time. This account has all the permissions set on the computer and can create user accounts on the computer. After installation, log in as an administrator and assign a password to the account. Then there is the Date and Time Settings. Networking Settings: Advanced users select Typical settings to configure the network. If you want to manually configure network clients, servers, and protocols, choose Custom settings.

Provide network information: During the installation process, you need to join a workgroup or domain. If you are not online, choose to join the workgroup.

Join a workgroup: A workgroup is one or more computers with the same workgroup name, such as a point-to-point network. Any user can enter the workgroup simply by entering the workgroup name.

Joining a domain: Joining a domain requires permission from your network administrator.

Create a User Account: The user account determines the username, password, group, network resources available, and personal files and configurations. To create a user account: Log in with administrator privileges - click on "Start" - click on "User Account" (if the computer is in the domain, click on "Add".)

4. File System

Before installing Windows XP 64-bit Edition, you must decide which file system to use. A file system is a way of storing information on a hard disk. Windows XP supports NTFS file system, FAT or FAT32. To install the root configuration of the two operating systems, you need to choose one of FAT32 or NTFS.

(Note: The FAT file system is automatically selected for the 102MB EFI system partition and cannot be changed.)

NTFS: This file system is recommended. It is superior to FAT and FAT32 in that it provides disk compression support for hard drives with a better and more secure file system, up to 2TB.

FAT and FAT32: FAT and FAT32 have good compatibility with the operating system, except for Windows XP.

5. Disk Partitions

Partitions can be created and deleted during the text-mode setup process.

(3) Change EFI Boot Management

Import to EFI Command Line - Switch to hard disk, enter "fs0:" or "fs1:" - change In the Msutil folder, type: cd msutil - use the nvrboot.efi program to change the EFI boot administrator option, ie: nvrboot - perform the boot option change operation.

Second, different from Windows XP Professional

The difference in performance and capacity between Windows XP Professional and Windows XP 64-Bit Edition has led to its setting, disk Space, device driver requirements, and operating platforms such as MMC that install certain applications and applications vary.

1. System Requirements

The following table shows the differences in system requirements between the two operating systems:

Windows XP Professional and Windows XP 64-Bit Edition configuration requirements Comparison Table

2. Different Multilingual Solutions

Installing a specific additional language based on the customer's Windows XP 64-Bit Edition requires more disk space support. The following two language choices are different:

a, Complex Script and Right-to-Left Language options: Windows XP Professional requires 10MB hard drive space, Windows XP 64-bit Edition requires 12MB hard drive space.

b, East Asian Language option: Windows XP Professional requires 230MB hard drive space, Windows XP 64-bit Edition requires 280MB hard drive space.

3, device driver installation

Windows XP 64-bit Edition only need to install 64-bit driver.

4. Running Microsoft's Management Console Snap-Ins

Windows XP 64-bit Edition includes 64-bit and 32-bit MMC. The default version of MMC is 64-bit. Of course, you can also manually select the MMC running version in the Run dialog. The specific operation is:

Input: mmc-32 (run 32-bit)

mmc-64 (run 64-bit)

Windows XP 64-bit Edition provides A scalable, high-performance platform that implements next-generation applications based on the Win64TM API. Compared with 32-bit systems, it is more efficient when processing large amounts of data, and supports up to 8 TB of virtual memory. With a 64-bit operating system, the application can preload more data into virtual memory, allowing the IA-64 processor to access quickly.