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Installing Windows 7 Pro

If you have a brand new PC with a pre-installed Win 7, you may want to create a disk image of the PC before the installation, just in case things go wrong and you have to start over.

Making a disk image is also useful if you don't have a Win 7 installation DVD, and the drivers of the machine

Prerequisites

A machine with a pre-installed Win 7 that has never been booted
… or a Win 7 installation DVD, a licence number
- if possible, a DVD with the specific drivers of the machine

Basic installation steps

Switch on the machine! If the machine did not have a pre-installed Windows 7, make sure that there is Windows 7 DVD in the the reader.

Choose France (or whatever is most appropriate) for the different localization settings. Warning, it will not be possible to change the language after that
User name: your LSCE login
Computer name: <login>-Dell or <login>-HP (or anything)
Password: anything you can remember
License agreement: accept it…
Security setting: only install important updates
Time zone, etc…: choose the appropriate settings
Wait, wait, wait (the computer may reboot)
Done!!!

Getting a network address

Determine the MAC address of the PC
- Start Menu → “type 'cmd' then press Enter in the Search field”
- Type “getmac” in the Command Prompt window and write down the MAC address
- Type “exit” to close the Command Prompt window
Ask the LSCE sysadmins to add the MAC address to the DHCP, and get a static IP address for the PC

Changing the partitions

Installing the drivers

If the machine did not have a pre-installed Windows 7, you will have to install additional Dell or HP (or whatever) drivers…

Updating Windows

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