Disabling the virtual memory can greatly expedite the copy process. To disable the virtual memory, open the Control Panel and double-click the System icon.
When the System Properties sheet appears, select the Advanced tab and click the Performance Options button, followed by the Change button. Now, select the drive that presently contains the paging file and set both the minimum and maximum file size to zero.
Next, click the Set button followed by the OK button. Windows will ask you to reboot the computer, so click Yes to do so. SYS file from the root directory. SYS file. There are just a few housekeeping chores left.
Run the resident antivirus software that should already be installed on the old machine. If none exists, you can always run a trial version of McAfee's VirusScan. Finally, perform a full defragmentation of all partitions. The copy process tends to go much smoother and more quickly if the partitions have been defragmented.
Click on the Start Menu, followed by Programs Accessories System Tools Disk Defragmenter and select the drive that will be migrated for defragmentation. There are a number of utilities out there that can copy a hard drive. The Ghost software operates outside of the Windows operating system and can burn an image of each partition to a recordable CD.
If a partition contains too much data to fit on a single CD, the disk image will automatically span multiple CDs. The easiest way to recreate an NTFS partition structure is to load a copy of Windows onto the new machine and use the copy to create the necessary partitions. Just be sure to keep the installation as simple as possible, and do not join a domain. If you had to install a temporary copy of Windows , the ghosted image will overwrite your temporary install assuming that both copies use the same directory.
Get and run Netset. New Riders, April Jeff's articles at InformIT include a download of several workarounds. BIN on the root folder. Windows XP also require the xpboot. Get it here or extract it from a bootable CD using the ISObuster utility To get an application installation to automatically install on its own, the CD needs to contain autorun.
A sample autorun. If you do slipstreaming, you may want to burn your own CD. His technique is to compile files into a single. ISO file. Files from the Resource Kit The executable and sample files for automating installations are available from several sources: Extracted using Windows Explorer from Deploy. Such a file is usually on a diskette for use on different machines. Text mode Specify new or upgrade. Accept the licensing agreement.
Select an installation partition. GUI phase Enter the product key. Enter user and organization name. Specify regional settings and a password. This includes: Networking: Networking settings and components are detected, installed, and configured along with workgroup and domain membership information.
Final Setup: Start menu programs are installed, components are registered, and temporary setup files are removed.
Appendix C of the Windows Deployment Guide contains sample answer files. Pre-Text Setup Loader mode During the Pre-Copy phase, all the files needed for the installation are copied to temporary folders on the local hard drive. Manual Step Unattend. Don't wait for a prompt. None will be issued. Block if you're sure all drivers are signed. Set to Ignore at your peril.
Text mode During the Text Mode phase, you are prompted for the information necessary to complete the installation. These settings are overidden for machine "C1" by this entry in the. Number of Concurrent Connections" default is 5.
Select "Per Server" licensing unless users will logon to several servers at the same time. Change to "Per Seat" can only occur once. Unlike Windows NT, Windows passwords are case sensitive. OemSkipWelcome is only recognized by Win Pro. In other words, you're not really Finished when you press Finish. In the [UniqueIds] section, specify the section name. The UDF file is invoked??? If only a single item is specified in the [UniqueIds] section,??? Plug and play devices network cards, modems, video adapters, and sound cards do not have to be the same.
Don't use Sysprep. But version 1. This replaces Sysprep. This option is available only in Sysprep 1. The command issues a stop command through Service Control Manager; any device that does not have hardware present responds to the command. This is useful for auditing the system and verifying that Mini-Setup is operating correctly.
This prevents sysprep from shutting down the machine. Tools and Equipments;. Operating system Windows Professional installation CD's. Make necessary backup for your system incase something wrong happen. Make sure that you have the right tools while working on this installation project.
Prepare the necessary documentations as reference when needed. Upon the completion of this Windows installation project, you will be able to:. Install new operating system on your personal computer PC.
Configure the Windows Professional operating system on personal computer PC. After your computer boot the Windows Professional installation CD-ROM, the Windows Setup then start checking the system configuration and loading files driver.
Windows Professional Setup screen, then display the Welcome to Setup. Windows Professional Setup, detect that the hard disk is new or has been erased, or that your computer running on operating system that is incompatible with windows NOTE: Make sure that your hard disk is new or not contain any data, because the installation will destroy all data on the disk. Press [C] key to proceed with the setup process.
Windows Licensing Agreement screen. Read the licensing agreement carefully, use the [ Page Down ] and [ Page Up ] key to scroll down and up the licensing agreement. If you find the licensing agreement acceptable, press [ F8 ] to agree and press [ Esc ] key if you not agree with the licensing agreement term.
Press [F8] key to proceed with the setup process. Windows Professional Setup screen then display the existing partition information. Here, on this screen you can create new partition to the hard disk or delete unwanted partition, or you can select the unpartition space to make partition for your Windows Professional. Highlight the unpartition space then press [C] key to create a partition. Windows Professional Setup then display the size of unpartition space on the disk that we select in the above procedure.
To create a new partition for Windows , resize the partition by entering the desire partition size in megabytes MB for the partition then,. Windows Professional Setup screen then display the disk partition information.
To create more partition space on disk highlight the un-partition space then, press [C] key. Note: This is the last point to Quit the installation process without destroying any data on the disk. There is no turning point after this step. To quit the installation process without destroying any data on the disk, press [ F3 ] key. Windows Professional Setup screen then prompt that the partition selected is not formatted. In order to make your disk useable, disk formatting is the process to prepare the computer hard disk to used file system.
On this screen there is two type of file system that you can use choose from; for the operating system NTFS filesystem or FAT file system.
One of the advantages of using NTFS file system on Windows is the increase of security features. NTFS vs. Comparison of file systems.
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