How to install windows 7 on a VHD (Virtual HDD)

Step 1:  Insert the Bootable Usb drive or media 

Step 2: select the f9 key or startup-boot menu , select the usb boot

Step 3: windows is loading now and show install windows 7 now , do not click install

Step 4: press shift+f10  , now a command prompt is open.

Step 5 : type diskpart

DISKPART>  LIST DISK

DISK 0      232 GB LOCAL HDDDISK 1      7448 MB USB HDD

DISKPART>  SELECT DISK 0

*DISK 0      232 GB LOCAL HDD

DISK 1      7448 MB USB HDD
DISK 0 IS NOW SELECTED

DISKPART> LIST VOLUME

VOLUME 1   C
VOLUME 2   D
VOLUME 3   E
VOLUME 4   F

DISKPART> SELECT VOLUME=2

DISKPART> CREATE VDISK FILE="D:\TEST.VHD" MAXIMUM=40000 

TYPE=EXPANDABLE

TEST.VHD IS SUCESSFULLY CREATED

DISKPART> ATTACH VDISK

TEST.VHD IS SUCCESSFULLY ATTACHED.

NOW EXIT THE DISKPART

DISKPART> EXIT

STEP 6:  Now click Install now Button and choose custom option  and Format the selected VDISK and install the WINDOWS 7 on the Virtual HDD

  

Basic Disk & Dynamic Disks

Basic Disk & Dynamic Disks

Basic Disk:

A disk initialized for basic storage is called a basic disk. When we install operating system by default our disk is

“Basic Disk”. A basic disk contains basic volumes, such as

1. Primary partitions,

2. Extended partitions,

3. Logical drives.

Primary partition is the first division of a hard disk drive. The primary partition is often the only one on the disk, and it occupies the entire disk volume. If there are multiple partitions, the primary partition is the one that holds the operating system and has to be made "active" in order to do so. We can make maximum 4 primary partitions on a disk.

Extended Partition: If we need more then four partition then we need to make at least one extended partition. This Extended partition is used to make more partition. Extended partition works as boundary for logical drives

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Logical Drives: We can create many logical drives inside an extended partition. We can create up to “z” logical drives, and then we can create many mounted drives on any folder or drive.

To Create Partition

Go to – My computer – Right click – Manage – Disk Management – Right Click on partition & follow the instruction…

Managing Printers

There are four types of printers

1. Local printer

2. Share printer

3. Network printer

4. Internet printing (Window Server)

(1) Local Printer: If Printer is directly attached to a computer (either in LPT port, Com port, or USB port) is

called Local printer.

Installation: Start – Printer & Faxes – Add Printer – Select local printer -

Select port – Select manufacturer & Printer Model – Printer Name (any) – Share Name – Location

(physical)(optional) - Finish

(2) Share Printer: If a Printer is attached to another computer & is shared to other computers too is called share printer.

Installation:

Start – Printer & Faxes – Add Printer – Select “A Network Printer” – Browse or “\\IP of print server\printer name (Name or IP) - Finish

Notes by Neeraj www.techoinfotech.com

(3) Network Printer: If a printer is directly attached to a switch then it’s called network printer. You have to install a network printer in any computer as a local printer & in other computer as a share computer or we can also install as local printer in each computer.

Installation:

To install network printer you have to configure IP address of Network Printer. To configure IP address of Printer there may be a keypad in Network Printer or you can configure your printer through internet explorer (just type “//IP of printer” in IE.)

[IP address of the Network Printer will be given in Printer Manual]

(4) Internet Printing: You can enable internet printing in “Windows Server 2003”.you can install. You can use your Web browser to connect to shared printers on a print server that is running Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). Printing is implemented by way of the Internet Print Protocol (IPP), which is encapsulated in the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). By typing the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of a remote printer in the Address bar of your browser, you can connect to, and print from the printer in the same way as if it were attached to your own computer. You can view a Web page on which all printers on a print server are listed, or a page that is specific to the printer to which you want to connect.

To Enable Interne printing on server

Go to Control Panel – Add Remove Program – Add remove windows component – Select Application Server –Details – Select IIS – Details – Check on Internet Printing – Ok - Finish

Installing internet printer on client computer

Go to Printer & fax – Add Printer – Network Printer – Select connect to a printer URL [http://IP of print server/Printers/Printer share name/printer]

Printer Pooling: If you have more than one printer of same manufacturer & same model then you can enable printer pooling. If you are pooling in printers than make sure that your all printer should be kept in the same location or else you will not able to find that which printer has printed out you document.

Enable Printer Pooling

Go to Printer Properties – Ports – Check on Enable Printer Pooling – Check both Printer Port – Ok

Priority: If there is long waiting queue for print job & want to set priority to any user then you can configure Printer priory. As soon as printer will finish the current job it will take high priority printing job at 2nd instance.

Enable Printer Priority

Install a printer twice – Go to printer properties – Advanced – Set priority

Spooling: (Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On-Line) the overlapping of low-speed operations with normal processing. Spooling originated with mainframes in order to optimize slow operations such as reading cards and printing. Card input was read onto disk and printer output was stored on disk. In that way, the business data processing was performed at high speed, receiving input from disk and sending output to disk. Subsequently, spooling is used to buffer data for the printer as well as remote batch terminals.

Note: Administrator can also manage internet printer through Internet Explorer

[http://IP of print Server/printers]

System Restore Point

System Restore Point

You can create a system restore point when your system is working properly. With this restore point you can undo harmful changes to you operating system. Basically it restores window settings & performance without destroying saved documents, emails, history & favorite list.

Your computer also creates automatically restore point called check point.

To create a Restore Point

Start – Program – Accessories – System tools – System restore- Select create a restore point.

“You can also undo your restore”

Start-up Options for Safe Mode

Safe Mode

If your computer is not booting properly or normally then there is some advance boot option that you can choose to boot your computer such as:

1. Safe mode:
Safe mode option Boots your computer with minimum driver required. In this mode you can disable anydevice driver & you can backup you data... etc.

2. Safe mode with networking :Safe mode with networking also loads driver of LAN card so your computer will be in network.

3. Safe mode with Command Prompt : Safe mode with command prompt boots your window & provides on command prompt. You can workwith command prompt as far as you can

4. Enable Boot loggingEnable: boot logging creates file which contains boot information & problem.

5. Enable VGA Mode : It boots your window with minimum graphic resolution.

6. Directory Services Restore Mode : This mode is used when we restore Active Directory in Win Server

7. Debugging Mode : If two computers are connected with serial cable by com port, it will display boot info in anothercomputer

Sharing & Security Permissions

Sharing & Security Permissions

Sharing a folder: Go to Folder properties which you want to share then select sharing – click on the “Share

Folder” – Apply

“Note: if the function is not open then go to control panel – admin tool – Local Security policy- Local Policy –

Security Option- set network access: sharing & security model guest to Classic & Apply & OK.”

Share folder permission

Go to folder properties – sharing – Permissions

There are three types of Permissions

1. Full control

2. Change

3. Read

Folder Security Permission

Go to folder properties – Security

There are seven types of permissions

1. Full Control

2. Modify

3. Read & Execute

4. List folder contents

5. Read

6. Write

7. Special Permission ( which keeps blocked )

Permission Meaning for Folders Meaning for Files

Read Permits viewing and listing of files and subfolders Permits viewing or accessing of the file's contents

Write Permits adding of files and subfolders Permits writing to a file

Read & Execute Permits viewing and listing of files and subfolders as well as executing of files; inherited by files and folders Permits viewing and accessing of the file's contents as well as executing of the file

List Folder Contents Permits viewing and listing of files and subfolders as well as executing of files; inherited by folders only

Modify Permits reading and writing of files and subfolders; allows deletion of the folder Permits reading and writing of the file; allows

deletion of the file

Full Control Permits reading, writing, changing, and deleting of files and subfolders Permits reading, writing, changing and deleting of

the file

Notes by Neeraj www.techoinfotech.com

To Grant full control permission to any user for a share folder

Go to folder properties – sharing – permission – click add – advance – find now – select any user – ok – select

user – check “allow full control” – apply

Note: If there is no security page is shown then open my computer – tools – folder option – view – un-check

last option (use simple file sharing)

To Access a share folder from another computer

Start – run - \\IP – OK

Or Click My network places - entire network – windows network – open domain name or workgroup name –

open computer name – open share folder

Note: By default all drives of a computer is shared. You can access it by the command (\\IP\ drive letter with $ sign)

If your Boot.ini is corrupted then use following steps in Recovery console

If your Boot.ini is corrupted then use following steps in Recovery console

1. After the first question, type 1 and press enter.
Type the administrator password (if available) and hit enter.2. Type CD .. (Note there must be a space between CD and ..)
This will bring you to the main "C" directory.3. Type the following attributes.
* C:>ATTRIB -H C:BOOT.INI* C:>ATTRIB -R C:BOOT.INI* C:>ATTRIB -S C:BOOT.INI4. Type DEL BOOT.INI
5. After that type BOOTCFG /Rebuild
This process may take some time to complete.Once that is done, just type CHKDSK /R /FThis process again will take some time as it will check the disk status. Do note that it can take up to 30 minutesor more on slower machines.Once the check disk process is complete, complete the whole process by typing FIXBOOT and click enter.You will be given a prompt that reads "Sure you want to write a new boot sector to the partition C: ?"Simply type Y for yes. Once done, type exit to restart your PC. You will now be able to boot normally on yourWindows XP.[Note: If computer keep restarting, it could be because of Missing or Corrupted Boot.ini file.]

Up-gradation of Windows 98 to Windows-xp

Up-gradation of Windows 98 to Windows-xp
Steps for Up-gradation of Window1. Insert Windows XP CD
2. Brows CD & run Setup
3. Click on Install Windows XP
4. When Window appears “select installation type to Up-gradation”
5. Accept the license & Enter the product key
6. Follow the instruction

Installation Process of Windows XP Professional/2003/2008

Installation Process of Windows XP Professional1. Standard Installation (Clean Installation )
2. Up-gradation
3. Unattended Installation.
4. RIS (Remote Installation System)
_ Steps for Clean or standard Installation:
1. Start Your Pc
2. Enter in BIOS (by pressing F1, F2, F3, DEL, ESC…etc according to supplier)
Or we can see the BIOS Entering Key on Startup screen…3. Go to Boot & Set “Boot Device Priority”
1st Boot Device – CD-ROM
2nd Boot Device - HDD (Hard Disk)
3rd Boot Device – Any
& Save the Setting & Exit4. Insert XP CD into the CD-Rom & restart computer
5. Press Any Key when “Press any key to boot from CD” Prompt on Screen
6. Next you’ll get the option to “Repair or Enter Setup” Press Enter.
7. Press F8 to agree with the License
8. Setup will scan for the previous window installation
9. Choose the location to install
a) If this is a clean Hard Drive, you can choose to create a partition in the un-partitioned space. At
this point you can allow setup to use all the space or set a size for partition.b) If the partition are already made then select a Partition to install it.
10. Choose the file system from the screen. Press Enter to continue…
11. Setup will show the progress box & reboot when copying file is complete.
12. After restarting when you would see ““Press any key to boot from CD” do not Press any key…
13. From this point you will follow the screen prompt
14. Enter you Name & Organization
15. Enter Product Key
16. Choose name for you computer
17. Choose you Time, Date & Time Zone
18. Setup will scan for network
19. If detected you have choice to choose typical configuration or custom configuration
Choose typical if you are unsure.20. Choose your workgroup
21. Setup will continue & reboot after finish…ignore ““Press any key to boot from CD”
22. You will see a change display setting, click yes to accept the setting
23. Your XP is installed & follow the few prompt instruction
Note: We can remove CD when 18 min are remaining to complete Installation