Installing Windows XP Professional

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Chapter 2

• Installing Windows XPProfessional

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Learning Objectives

• Determine if an upgrade is possible
• How to install and boot multiple operating
  systems
• Planning an installation or upgrade
• Understand the types of installations available
• Working with important setup and advanced
  installation options

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Learning Objectives

• How to work with WINNT and WINNT32
• Understand partitioning, volume licensing, and
  activating Windows XP
• How to set up Windows XP Professional and upgrade
  to multiple processors
• How to remove Windows XP Professional

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Upgrading VS Clean Installation

• When the Windows XP installation process is
  started you are given the options of
• Repair (recommended)
• New Installation (advanced)

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Upgrading VS Clean Installation

• You would select the Repair option if
• A previous version of Windows is already
  installed
• The desktop setup is to be preserved
• To retain system settings
• To retain network settings
• Retain or upgrade the hardware settings

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Windows Upgrade (things to keep in mind)

• It is important to insure that Windows XP
  compliant device drivers are installed.
• Most drivers are automatically upgrades during
  the installation process.
• You many find nonstandard drivers installed for
  obscure devices.
• If after installation commands on some interfaces
  are unavailable this may be the cause.
• This problem is most often encountered with video
  drivers.

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Clean Installation

• Installs a completely new version of the OS
• There is no regard for existing files or settings
• A clean installation is done when a current OS is
  experiencing systemic problems.

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Clean Installation

• A Clean Installation can be done onto a system
• With a blank hard drive
• Over and existing OS
• Or in such a way as to create a multiboot system
• A multiboot system allows the user to select from
  different OSs by using a boot menu or interface.

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Booting Multiple Operating Systems

• Install more than one OS on the same computer.
• Each OS must run in its own partiton
• Should be installed in chronological order
• XP can be dual-booted with any Microsoft OS.
• Must have a boot loader
• Software that shows all currently available
  operating systems

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Booting Multiple Operating Systems

• It may be important to consider the type of file
  system employed in a multiple boot system.
• NTFS is the preferred file system for Windows XP
  Professional.
• NTFS is invisible to older Windows OSs.

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Planning the Installation

• Careful planning is very important to both a
  upgrade and clean installation. It is important
  to consider the following
• Is all of the hardware Microsoft Windows XP
  compliant.
• The type of installation you want to perform such
  as attended or unattended.

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Planning the Installation

• Clean installation must meet one of the
  following.
• System has a freshly formatted hard drive.
• System is to be installed over a current
  operating system that is not supported by the
  upgrade process.
• Replace existing OS with Windows XP
• Create a dual or multi boot system.

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Attended Installations

• Types of attended installations.
• Network Installations
• CD Installations

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CD ROM Installation from Bootable CD

• Computer must support the use of bootable CDs
• There are three parts to installing Windows XP
• Text Mode Setup used when you initialize the
  setup from any method other then launching setup
  from a preexisting OS
• GUI Mode - Uses a wizard to walk you through the
  steps of the setup

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Advances Customized InstallationUnattended
Installations

• Unattended installations proceed in much the same
  manor as attended but use an answer file.
• The answer file provides the responses to all of
  the setup prompts.

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Advances Customized InstallationUnattended
Installations

• Can be used for both stand alone and network
  installation processes.
• Can be used in conjunction with UDF (Uniqueness
  Database File)
• A UDF is used to override setting in the answer
  file.

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Advances Customized InstallationUnattended
Installations

• To initiate an unattended installation you must
  execute either WINNT or WINNT32 with specific
  options.
• WINNT requires the /U and /S option.
• WINNT32 requires the /UNATTENDED AND /S options.

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Advances Customized InstallationUnattended
Installations

• If you intend to do a clean installation on a
  computer that does not have a compatible
  operating system the answer file must be
  available on a floppy and named NINNT.sif.

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Advances Customized InstallationUnattended
Installations

• A default answer file UNATTEND.TXT can be found
  in the /I386 director of the Windows XP
  professional CD.
• This file can be modified either
• Manually
• Or by using the Setup Manager Wizard.
• Completed details about the creation and
  modification of UNATTEND.TXT can be found in the
  Windows XP Professional Resources Kit.

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Advances Customized Installation

• Custom installations are a modified version of
  Windows XP designed to fit a specific hardware or
  software configuration

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Advances Customized InstallationUnattended
Installations

• RIS (Remote Installation Services) a Windows
  Server-based service that allows OSs to be
  automatically installed onto target systems.
• WIS (Windows Installer Services) used to
  simplify the process of installing multiple
  applications into new client systems.

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Advances Customized InstallationUnattended
Installations

• SMS (System Management Services) used to
  upgrade Windows systems over networks.

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Advances Customized InstallationSYSPREP

• SYSPREP is a tool used to duplicate the entire
  hard drive (known as imaging)
• To use SYSPREP all systems must have the same
  hardware configuration (or very close).
• SYSPREP can be only used for a clean
  installation.
• To use SYSPREP the OS and all applications must
  be installed on the source PC.

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Advances Customized InstallationSYSPREP

• There are three files used by SYSPREP
• SYSPREP.EXE
• SETUPCL.EXE
• SYSPREP.INF
• These files must be in a folder named SYSPREP on
  the same drive as the Windows Folder.

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Advances Customized InstallationSYSPREP

• If the SYSPREP image is smaller the 650 MB the
  image can be distributed by CD

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Partitioning a Hard Drive

• Reasons to partition a hard drive.
• To create separate areas on the hard drive for
  program and data files
• To create a multiboot system
• To create a DOS partition for the storage of DOS
  based diagnostics and utility programs (accessed
  from a DOS boot disk).

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Partitioning a Hard Drive for OS Installation

• The active partition
• The partition where the computer looks to find
  the boot files for an OS.
• Partition where Windows XP boot files are
  contained.
• Ways to partition
• You can use DOS FDISK
• The partitioning interface that is part of
  Windows Setup
• Disk management under Computer Management in
  Administrative Tools

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Volume Licensing

• When individual copies of Windows XP Professional
  are purchased you receive a
• License to use the purchased copy of Windows XP
• A 25 digit product key used during the
  installation
• In cases where multiple copies of Windows XP are
  to be installed a volume license can be obtained.

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Volume Licensing

• When you purchase a volume license, you receive a
  special volume license key.
• The volume license key does not work for
  individually purchase copies and vise versa.

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Product Activation

• To curb the piracy of Windows XP Microsoft has
  created a product activation system.
• Product activation must be done within 30 days of
  installation.
• Activation can be done
• Over the internet (preferred)
• By phone (more complicated and time consuming)

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Product Activation

• The process of activation is a type of
  registration.
• Registration involves creating a database entry
  at Microsoft that includes
• The product information
• The product key
• Hardware signature
• Product activation ensures that you have a valid
  copy of Windows XP

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Product Activation

• Further information of product activation can be
  found at
• http//www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/evaluation/feat
  ures/activation.mspx

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Removing Windows XP Professional

• Windows XP offers an uninstall or rollback system
  to revert to the previous OS.
• If you do a clean installation there is no simple
  way to uninstall Windows XP and retain any data
  created.
• Assuming that Windows XP professional is
  installed on an NTFS formatted hard drive, the
  only way to remove Windows is to destroy the
  partition.