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Planning a Windows Installation (1.2) (Types of Installations (Clean…
Planning a Windows Installation (1.2)
CD-ROM/ DVD- ROM/USB FLASH/PXE (Preboot eXecution Environment (your computer also has to be able to support booting from PXE.)
Netbook (MAC OS)
solid state drive or hard drive, and you can store many different installation media.
you may want to have the installation media on a separate partition inside of that computer that way you can boot from the installation media partition and install into a separate system partition.
Types of Installations
In place upgrade
That means you already have an operating system in place. You already have your documents. You’ve installed applications. And now you’d simply like to upgrade the application that’s in use.
Clean Install
clean everything off the drive and install a fresh version of the operating system.
install the new system on this clean install, and then migrate all of your files back on to this brand new operating system
Image
version of Windows that has been customized with your organization’s settings and with applications that are specific to your company. Then you can take that configuration, create an image of that, and then clone it or deploy it to all of those separate systems.
Disk Partition
this allows us to keep data separated. We might want to put our operating system on one partition and our user data on another partition.
MBR (Master Boot Record) partition
Primary
commonly where you would put a computer’s operating system so that you can boot when the system starts up. One of these partitions is commonly marked as active
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Extended
allows you to extend the number of partitions by creating one large extended partition that you can then separate into smaller logical partitions
GPT Partition
GUID partition table. GUID stands for globally unique identifier. It’s a way to set a unique ID to components and software that’s inside of your computer.
File Systems
This is usually something that’s a FAT32 or NTFS file system.
large volume sizes and it limited the maximum size of any particular file to 4 gigabytes.
Quick Format
quick format on that partition. This is creating a brand new file table.
If there was a file table there originally it will simply overwrite the file table that was there
Full format
not only going to overwrite the file table, it’s also going to write zeros into the entire drive. That means if you have any data on that drive you will not be able to recover anything once that drive has gone through a full format