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Saving Time Installing
Microsoft Windows!
So you want to save some
time installing or Reinstalling Microsoft Windows on a computer!
Well we have a few hints,
Tips, and Shortcuts for you hare at Abacus Computer Repair & Networking
Solutions.
First and foremost know
the machine that you are running on. Gathered all the information and special
drivers you need for the machine that you are installing on. Also
If you are installing on some machines You may be
working on a PC that saves its CMOS Setup and Diagnostic software on the hard
drive, rather than on a chip as most new PCs do. Before installing launch
FDISK and choose option 4, Display Partition Information. Then look to see if
there is a small, non-DOS partition listed either before or after the DOS
partitions. If there are any then it's probably a diagnostics partition and it
should be left alone. Older Compaq PCs have this partition, ranging from 4 to
24 MB, at the head of the hard drive. If you remove it, the only way to get it
back is to re-FDISK the drive. And just in case if you didn’t know, that means
losing everything that the drive contains. Compaq has the tools you need to
create the partition. Remember this if you have to put a new hard drive into
one of these PCs.
Then you may want to make
sure you have any Hardware Drivers you may need for that special hardware that
you have in the PC that you are installing Windows onto.
After that then you need
to know what version of Windows you are installing or reinstalling so that you
can use the command line interface to its fullest
extent.
After the drive has been
formatted, use the md and cd commands to create the directory
C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS. Afterwards, copy the contents of your CD's Win9x
directory to it. You can do this by typing the following at DOS prompt: “copy x:\win9X\*.* c:\windows\options\cabs“ Where x represents the drive letter
of your CD-ROM, and X represents your Windows version number such as
Windows98.
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