10/1/2015 Chapter 2 Installing Windows XP Professional.

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Chapter 2

Installing Windows XPProfessional

Learning Objectives

Determine if an upgrade is possibleHow to install and boot multiple operating systemsPlanning an installation or upgradeUnderstand the types of installations availableWorking with important setup and advanced installation options

Learning Objectives

How to work with WINNT and WINNT32Understand partitioning, volume licensing, and activating Windows XPHow to set up Windows XP Professional and upgrade to multiple processorsHow to remove Windows XP Professional

Upgrading VS Clean Installation

When the Windows XP installation process is started you are given the options of

Repair (recommended)New Installation (advanced)

Upgrading VS Clean Installation

You would select the Repair option if; A previous version of Windows is already installedThe desktop setup is to be preservedTo retain system settingsTo retain network settingsRetain or upgrade the hardware settings

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.

Clean Installation

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

Clean Installation

A Clean Installation can be done onto a system;

With a blank hard driveOver and existing OSOr in such a way as to create a multiboot system

A multiboot system allows the user to select from different OS’s by using a boot menu or interface.

Booting Multiple Operating Systems

Install more than one OS on the same computer.Each OS must run in its own partitonShould be installed in chronological orderXP can be dual-booted with any Microsoft OS.Must have a boot loader

Software that shows all currently available operating systems

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 OS’s.

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.

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 XPCreate a dual or multi boot system.

Attended Installations

Types of attended installations. Network InstallationsCD Installations

CD ROM Installation from Bootable CD

Computer must support the use of bootable CD’sThere 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 OSGUI Mode - Uses a wizard to walk you through the steps of the setup

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.

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.


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.


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.


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.


Advances Customized Installation

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

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


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


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.

Advances Customized InstallationSYSPREP

There are three files used by SYSPREP

SYSPREP.EXESETUPCL.EXESYSPREP.INF

These files must be in a folder named SYSPREP on the same drive as the Windows Folder.


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


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

Partitioning a Hard Drive

The active partitionThe partition where the computer looks to find the boot files for an OS.Partition where Windows XP boot files are contained.

Ways to partitionYou can use DOS FDISKThe partitioning interface that is part of Windows SetupDisk management under Computer Management in Administrative Tools

Partitioning a Hard Drive for OS Installation

When individual copies of Windows XP Professional are purchased you receive a;

License to use the purchased copy of Windows XPA 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.

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.

Volume Licensing

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)

Product Activation

The process of activation is a type of registration.Registration involves creating a database entry at Microsoft that includes

The product informationThe product keyHardware signature

Product activation ensures that you have a valid copy of Windows XP

Product Activation

Further information of product activation can be found at;

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/evaluation/features/activation.mspx

Product Activation

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.

Removing Windows XP Professional

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