10/1/2015 Chapter 2 Installing Windows XP Professional

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

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

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 installed The desktop setup is to be preserved To retain system settings To retain network settings Retain 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 settings A 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 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 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 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

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 XP Create a dual or multi boot system.

Attended Installations Types of attended installations. Network Installations CD Installations

CD ROM Installation from Bootable CD Computer must support the use of bootable CD’s 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

Advances Customized Installation Unattended 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. Advances Customized Installation Unattended 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. Advances Customized Installation Unattended 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. Advances Customized Installation Unattended 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. Advances Customized Installation Unattended Installations

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. Advances Customized Installation Unattended Installations

SMS (System Management Services) – used to upgrade Windows systems over networks. Advances Customized Installation Unattended Installations

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 Installation SYSPREP

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. Advances Customized Installation SYSPREP

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

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). Partitioning a Hard Drive

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 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 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. 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 information The product key Hardware signature Product activation ensures that you have a valid copy of Windows XP Product Activation

Further information of product activation can be found at; valuation/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