Setting up a PC for testing
There may be times when browser testing online may need to be supplemented with an actual machine. Just follow these simple steps and you are good to go.
1.) If a PC is already running (i.e. has an OS already installed) check the hardware configuration and note it down. Also write down the size of the drive that the current OS installed.
2.) Check if a virtual machine can be installed for the testing OS depending on the machines configuration. Google this for best results.
3.) If you need to install a fresh OS use the windows CD for the version desired. In case your PC does not have a CD drive then you will need to make a bootable pendrive.
4.) For that first download: Daemon tools lite. It will enable you to create a virtual CD-Rom of the installation file. Follow the instructions when to use this program.
5.) The above step is also called mounting the file or image (of the executable program). Now download this: Win to Flash it will enable you install the new OS on to a pen drive which is made boot-able and can used from the BIOS menu during PC start up.
6.) Repeatedly press DEL button during PC start up to bring you to the BIOS window. Set the boot-able device to the pen-drive that you have connected to the PC then save and exit.
Follow the instruction (ensure you format the harddrive whos size you have written down earlier. If its a fresh pc then you will have to set a partition for which 20GB space is good) till the OS is installed and ready and then restart the PC and change the booting preference to the internal hard-drive save and exit.
Happy Testing…. :)
