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Chapter 1
Installing Windows Vista Client
Lesson 2: Installing Windows Vista
Although the installation process is straightforward, as an IT pro, you will
need to make sev-
eral important decisions that will influence the configuration of the
computer. This includes
setting initial disk and volume configuration, security, and network
discoverability options.
Depending on the hardware configuration of the computer on which you install
Windows
Vista, performing an installation can take some time. You need to understand
the ramifica-
tions of each decision. In some cases, if you choose the wrong option, the
only remedy will to
be to start over from the beginning. In this lesson, you will learn about
the Windows Vista
installation process, a process that is likely to become very familiar to
you over the course of
the next few years as an IT pro.
After this lesson, you will be able to:
■ Install Windows Vista Business.
■ Understand how to dual boot Windows Vista with Windows XP.
■ Configure the default operating system in the boot manager.
Estimated lesson time: 75 minutes
Performing the Windows Vista Installation
In this lesson, you will learn the general steps of the Windows Vista
installation routine. After
you have covered the general steps in the text, the practices at the end of
the lesson will walk
you through actually how to perform the installation. These practices are
important. The prac-
tices in all other lessons in this book build on the installation of Windows
Vista that you per-
form at the end of this lesson.
Exam Tip
Prior to taking the exam, you should run through the installation procedure
more than
once. It will be helpful to be able to differentiate the steps in your mind
from those of the Windows
XP installation routine. As a rule of thumb, you should have installed
Windows Vista at least 10
times prior to taking the 70-620 exam.
The first step in an average Windows Vista clean installation is inserting
the installation DVD
into the computer’s DVD-ROM drive and allowing the computer to boot off the
DVD-ROM.
Upgrades, covered in detail in Chapter 2, “Windows Vista Upgrades and
Migrations,” require
that you begin the installation from within Windows XP. Some computers will
not automati-
cally boot from the DVD-ROM drive. This bypass is often implemented for
security reasons
because it is possible to boot into an alternate operating system if you can
boot from the DVD-
ROM drive. To change the computer boot order so that the DVD-ROM drive is
checked first,
you need to enter the computer’s BIOS. From here it is possible to configure
the boot order.
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