Download Removing Windows XP Professional

Chapter Two
Installing
Windows XP Professional
Objectives
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Understand how to install and upgrade
Windows XP Professional
Plan an installation or upgrade
Install Windows XP using a CD-ROM or the
Network
Understand the installation process
Describe the advanced installation options
Remove Windows XP Professional
Upgrading Versus Installing
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Windows XP can be installed as an upgrade over an
existing installation of following operating systems:
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Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, and
Windows Me
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows XP Home
To migrate from any other OS not include on this list
requires a full or clean installation
Upgrading Versus Installing
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Typically, you would select an upgrade installation
when you want to retain you existing desktop,
system settings, and network configuration
Multi-boot system
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Computer that hosts two or more operating system that
can be booted to by selecting one from a boot menu or
boot manager each time the computer is booted up
Upgrading Versus Installing
Figure 2-1: Choosing the upgrade options from the Windows Setup Wizard
Booting Multiple Operating
Systems
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Unless you deliberately overwrite, or format, the
partition or volume where another OS is located,
installing Windows XP Professional will not affect
another OS already installed on the same computer
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You can create a dual-boot system with Windows XP
and other operating systems
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The boot loader is the software that:
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Shows all currently available operating systems
Permits you to choose which OS should be booted
Booting Multiple Operating
Systems
Figure 2-2: the Windows XP Professional boot menu
Booting Multiple Operating
Systems
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BOOT.INI file
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Text file that creates Windows XP boot loader’s
menu
If you plan to use more than one OS, it’s
important to consider:
Which file system to use
 Whether data must be accessible to more than one
OS on the same machine
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Planning the Installation
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Important to check hardware against the HCL
Also important to consider:
Type of installation you want to perform
 Partition on which the OS files will be stored and
how that partition is to be formatted
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Planning the Installation
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You can perform an upgrade installation if your
situation meets all of the following conditions:
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Current OS is supported as a platform that Windows XP
Professional can upgrade
You want to replace your current OS with Windows XP,
retaining as much configuration and setting information
as possible
You are prepared to handle problems that may occur
under Windows XP that are not present under current
OS
Planning the Installation
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You can perform a fresh installation if at least one of
the following is true:
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Your system has a freshly formatted hard drive, or a new
blank hard drive has just been installed
You wish to install Windows XP over your existing OS, but
that OS is on the list of operating system,s that support
upgrading to Windows XP
You want to replace your existing OS with Windows XP
You want to create a dual-boot or multi-boot configuration
with the existing operating system(s) and Windows XP
Types of Installations
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Installing over the network
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Launch the Setup routine from a network share
instead of local device
CD-ROM installation launched from setup boot
floppies
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The most common installation method is using the
five set-up boot disks (or floppies) to initiate
the installation from a local CD-ROM drive
Types of Installations
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Bootable CD-ROM
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CD-ROM launch from existing OS
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Windows XP Professional is self-booting
Setup process can be launched from an existing OS
or from a boot floppy that contains CD-ROM
drivers
Creating setup boot floppies
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If set-up boot floppies aren’t available, you’ll have to
create them
Important Setup Option
Differences
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A text-only format is launched initially if setup
is launched from:
Setup boot floppies
 Bootable CD-ROM drive
 DOS
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Setup later switches into a GUI format
Important Setup Option
Differences
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Setup opens a graphical Setup Wizard if it is
launched from:
Any other Windows OS
 Local CD-ROM drive
 Network share
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Important Setup Option
Differences
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The Windows setup method employs an
initialization wizard to preselect or predefine
several setup options
An upgrade installation retains as much of the
existing system information as possible
A clean installation ignores all existing settings
Advanced Installation Options
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Advanced installations proceed in much the same
manner as a manual installation, except that an
answer file is used to provide the responses to all
setup prompts
In addition, answer files can be used to install
additional applications after the OS installation is
complete
Automated Installations
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Unattended installation
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Uniqueness database file (UDF)
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Windows XP installation that uses a script and does
not require user interaction
Text file that contains a partial set of instructions for
installing Windows XP
Setup Manager
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Windows XP tool that provides you with a GUI for
creating an answer file
Answer Files and UDFs
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You can create a UDF in a text editor such as
EDIT or Notepad
When you’ve finished a UDF, save it as a text
file and store it on disk
It is often helpful to name UDFs for the people
using them
Remote Installation Service (RIS)
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RIS is used to push installations over a network to
a client
RIS can install Windows XP on clients that have:
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Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) PXEbased remote boot ROM
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RIS boot disk-supported network adapter (NIC)
Existing OS
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Remote Installation Service (RIS)
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Steps for employing RIS:
Verify systems comply with hardware requirements
 Install a Windows 2000 or .NET Server as a standalone/member server
 If DNS is not already present in the domain, install
it
 Promote the Windows Server as a domain controller
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Remote Installation Service (RIS)
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Steps for employing RIS (cont.):
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If DHCP is not already present on the domain, install it
Initiate the configuration procedure for RIS by
launching RISETUP.EXE from the Run command
Authorize RIS with Active Directory through the DHCP
Manager
Use the Directory Management snap-in to further
configure RIS and define remote installation parameters
Using the SYSDIFF Utility
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SYSDIFF
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Windows XP utility used to take a snapshot of a
basic installation and after the changes have been
made, record the changes and apply them to another
installation
You can use the SYSDIFF in combination with
an unattended installation
Using SYSPREP
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SYSPREP
System duplication tool used to duplicate an entire
hard drive
 Tool is useful when installing Windows XP onto
multiple identical systems
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Each system must have at least closely matching, if not
almost identical, core hardware configurations
WINNT and WINNT32
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WINNT
16-bit setup tool
 Designed to be launched from DOS and operating
systems that rely upon DOS
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WINNT32
32-bit setup tool
 Designed to be launched from 32-bit operating
systems
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WINNT
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Command line syntax for the WINNT
command:
/S[:sourcepath]
 /T[:tempdrive]
 /U[:answer_file]
 /UDF:id[,UDF_file]
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WINNT
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Command line syntax for the WINNT
command (cont.):
/R[folder]
 /Rx[:folder]
 /E
 /A
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WINNT32
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Command line syntax for the WINNT32 command:
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/checkupgradeonly
/cmd:command_line
/cmdcons
/copydir:i386\folder_name
/copysource:folder_name
/debug[level]:[filename]
WINNT32
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Command line syntax for the WINNT32 command
(cont.):
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/dudisable
/duprepare:pathname
/dushare:pathname
/m:folder_name
/makelocalsource
/noreboot
WINNT32
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Command line syntax for the WINNT32 command
(cont.):
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/s:sourcepath
/syspart:drive_letter
/tempdrive:drive_letter
/udf:id[,UDB_file]
/unattend
/unattend[num]:[answer_file]
Partitioning the Hard Disk
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Many people create a DOS boot partition that’s
accessible when booting from a floppy
Active partition
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Houses the Windows XP boot files
To partition the hard disk before setup, you can use:
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The DOS FDISK
The partitioning interface encountered during setup
Activating Windows XP
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Product activation
Mechanism by which a product has a finite initial
functional lifetime
 Activation has both benefits and drawbacks
 After initial installation, you have 30 days to activate
your product before it will no longer function fully
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Windows XP Professional Setup
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Installing Windows XP is not difficult
Easier than process for installing Windows 2000
 Almost as simple as the process for Windows 98
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There are two major parts to the setup
The text-only portion
 The GUI portion
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Troubleshooting an Installation
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The Windows XP installation procedure is fairly
self-regulating and self-healing
In most cases, if you hit a snag, you can resolve
the issue by either:
Starting over
 Just rebooting
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Removing Windows XP
Professional
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Unlike most other Windows operating system,
Windows XP offers an uninstall or rollback
capability
It is supported only when an upgrade is
performed over Windows 95/98/OSR2/Me
Removing Windows XP
Professional
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Destroying partitions
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Possibly the easiest method to remove Windows XP is
to destroy the installation and start fresh with some
other OS
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Be sure to first remove all data you consider important
If you installed Windows XP onto a FAT partition
smaller than 2 GB, you may to remove it from your
computer without performing above the destroy
method
Chapter Summary
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Understand the steps to install and uninstall Windows
XP
Be familiar with all the tools and information used in
the installation and uninstallation process
Understand how to choose hardware for a successful
installation
Understand how to install locally and over a network
Chapter Summary
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Understand how to use the switches that come
with WINNT and WINNT32
Understand how to run setup
Be familiar with the differences between
upgrading and installing Windows XP