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Chapter 1
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Installing Windows 7
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are not recognized by any other operating system, including
Windows NT and Windows XP Home Edition.
Only Windows NT 4.0 (with Service Pack 4), Windows 2000,
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Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003,
and Windows Server 2008 can recognize NTFS file systems.
Other Windows operating systems use FAT16 or FAT32 and can-
not recognize NTFS. All Windows-based operating systems can
recognize FAT partitions.
If you will dual- or multiboot with Windows 9
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x, you must turn off
disk compression or Windows 7 will not be able to read the drive
properly.
Do not install Windows 7 on a compressed volume unless the vol-
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ume was compressed using NTFS compression.
Files that are encrypted with Windows 7 will not be available to
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Windows NT 4.
After you install each operating system, you can choose the operat-
ing system that you will boot to during the boot process. You will see
a boot selection screen that asks you to choose which operating system
you want to boot.
The Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store contains boot information
parameters that were previously found in boot.ini in older versions of
Windows. To edit the boot options in the BCD store, use the bcdedit
utility, which can be launched only from a command prompt.
Perform the following steps to open a command prompt window:
1. Launch \Windows\system32\cmd.exe.
2. Open the Run command by pressing Windows key+R.
3. Type cmd.exe in the Search Programs And Files box and press
Enter.
After the command prompt window is open, type bcdedit to launch
the bcdedit utility. You can also type bcdedit/? to see all the various
bcdedit commands.
After the Windows 7 installation is complete, it’s time to do some
general housekeeping. The first thing you need to do is activate the
Windows 7 operating system.
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