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Chapter 1
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Installing Windows 7
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Special Disk Configurations Windows 7 supports several disk con-
figurations. Options include simple, spanned, and striped volumes.
Disk Partition Configuration Utilities If you are partitioning your
disk prior to installation, you can use several utilities, such as the
DOS or Windows Fdisk program or a third-party utility such as
Norton’s Partition Magic. You can also configure the disks during
the installation of the Windows 7 operating system.
You might want to create only the first partition where Windows 7
will be installed. You can then use the Disk Management utility in
Windows 7 to create any other partitions you need.
Another configuration option that you must set when you install
Windows 7 is where the computer system files will reside after the
install is complete.
Install Windows 7
You can install Windows 7 either from the bootable DVD or through
a network installation using files that have been copied to a network
share point. You can also launch the setup.exe file from within the
Windows Vista operating system to upgrade your operating system.
The Windows 7 DVD is bootable. To start the installation, simply
restart your computer and boot to the DVD. The installation process
begins automatically. I will walk you through the steps of installing
Windows 7 later in this chapter.
If you are installing Windows 7 from the network, you need a distri-
bution server and a computer with a network connection. A distribution
server is a server that has the Windows 7 distribution files copied to a
shared folder.
Perform the following steps to install Windows 7 over the network:
1. Boot the target computer.
2. Attach to the distribution server and access the share that has the
files copied to it.
3. Launch setup.exe.
4. Complete the Windows 7 installation using either the clean install
method or the upgrade method.
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