I am trying to get the .iso files to load on a re-purposed hard drive machine. What is the minimum configuration of the computer hard drive? Such as:

fully operating windows?

fully operating Linux?

newly installed formatted NTFS or FAT32 hard drive?

Right now, I have a FAT32 formatted hard drive ready to go. 

Have I missed instructions an expected start configuration?

Thanks,

Duane KA1LM