Reinstall Windows XP Professional and specify drive D: as the installation partition. Restart the computer by using the Recovery console, and run the Fixboot command.From the DiskPart command line, run the Active C: command, and then run the Rescan command. Run the Dmdiag C: command.
The Windows XP Professional Recovery Console is a command-line interface that you can use to per-form a variety of troubleshooting and recovery tasks. The Fixboot command writes a new partition boot sector to the system partition, and is only available when you are using the Recovery Console.The Fixmbr command repairs the boot sector on the system partition, and is only available when you are using the Recovery Console.
Use the Recovery console to add the correct ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) HAL to the computer. Use System Restore to restore the last restore point. Reinstall Windows XP Professional to enable Advanced Configuration and Power Interface and power management support. Restart the computer with the last known good configuration. None of the above
The BIOS upgrade requires and upgrade of the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) of Windows XP, and the change from non-ACPI to ACPI by changing drivers is not supported, thus we must reinstall the oper-ating system.The HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) is a set of drivers, upon which the Windows NT kernel is based, and some HAL upgrades can be accomplished by using the Device Manager, in particular the Device Manager can be used when upgraded a single processor system to a multi-processor system. However, HAL options after Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 Setup Microsoft Article 309283
It is used to coordinate the system's Startup procedure It is used to locate and initialize system files. It is used to examine the hardware on the system. It is used to determine the operating system options to display during the Startup process.
The boot.ini file uses the ARC naming convention with a sample as seen here:multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNTmulti(0) indicates that this is IDE. (If it was SCSI then it would read SCSI with the SCSI BIOS disabled)disk (0) is only used with SCSI. If IDE is ‘multi’ is used then this value must be a zero. rdisk(1) is only used with IDE and not SCSI and indicates in our example that we are using the second disk. (Since we always start with zero, disk 1 is the second disk) partition(1) is used to identify a partition and may never be set to zero, thus it must start at one, and as seen in our exhibit, W2K is on the second partition. Microsoft Article 102873
The [GuiRunOnce] section of the answer file is only used if an application requires the Microsoft Windows Explorer shell in order to run. The [GuiRunOnce] section of the answer file is used to execute a set of commands that are required to be ran at the completion of setup. The [GuiRunOnce] section of the answer file is used to execute a set of commands that are required during setup in GUI mode. The [GuiRunOnce] section of the answer file may not be ran from sysprep if it us used.
The Microsoft Windows Explorer shell will not have been loaded at the time that the [GuiRunOnce] sec-tion of the answer file is executed.[GuiRunOnce] section of the answer file may be used with Sysprep as seen in the following example.An example of the [GuiRunOnce] section that allows Sysprep to run in quiet mode is as follows:[GuiRunOnce] command()=”%systemdrive%\Sysprep\Sysprep –quiet”
Use disk cleanup to delete temporary files and unnecessary program files. Perform a disk analysis, and use the disk defragmenter, if recommended. Ensure that the performance options setting is optimized for background services. Add Sally to the Power Users group. Set the total paging file to 75 percent of physical memory.
The system is showing symptoms of running out of disk space, since 100 MB of space is not much in today’s world. The Disk Cleanup utility may be used to free up some disk space, and it is also a good idea to defragment the hard drive as a hard drive which is close to its maximum capacity is very likely to be fragmented.Keep in mind that the minimum recommended setting of the page file is 1.5 times the physical memory, not 75%.Moving the page file to a different drive will also improve performance, but was not an option. Also on a Windows XP Professional computer the performance options should be optimized for Applications, and not Background services.
A non-PCI NIC card is not supported using the rbfg.exe command to create a floppy to boot to a RIS server.A list of NIC cards that are supported with the rbfg.exe command may be seen by selecting the Adapter List button after the rbfg.exe command has been used.
Modify the installation settings in the text-based portion of Setup so that Windows XP Professional is installed in the C:\Win98 folder. Rename the C:\Win98 folder to C:\Windows. Use the Windows XP Professional CD-ROM to create a set of Setup floppy disks, and restart the com-puter by using the first floppy disk in the set to launch Setup. Restart the computer by using Windows 98, and insert the Windows XP Professional CD-ROM into the computer and run Setup from the CD-ROM.
You cannot boot to the XP CD if you want to upgrade the existing operating system. To upgrade Win-dows 98 to Windows XP, you need to start Windows 98 first, then insert the Windows XP installation CD and run setup. When setup starts, you will have the option to upgrade the existing operating system.
Syspart may be used to copy all boot files to a target drive and mark it as active and is only a valid command with winnt32. Syspart may be used to copy all boot files to a target drive and mark it as active and is only a valid command with winnt. Syspart may be used to copy all boot files to a target drive and mark it as active and is a valid com-mand with either winnt or winnt32. Syspart may be used to copy all boot files to a target drive and mark it as active and may only be used when the installation is performed manually.
An example of the syspart switch is seen as follows: winnt32 /unattend: /s: [/syspart:] [/tempdrive:] The /tempdrive switch is only available with the winnt32.exe command.The /t switch is only available with the winnt.exe command.The /t or /tempdrive switch is used to install XP to a partition other than the boot partition of the destina-tion computer.9. You are running low on storage space on your Windows XP Professional home computer so you install a second SCSI controller and a second hard disk. The SCSI driver is an unsigned driver and during the installation you receive a warning that indicates that the driver is unsigned. You choose to complete the in-stallation of the driver and restart Windows XP Professional. During startup, you receive a Stop error. You need to correct the error and start Windows XP as quickly as possible. What should you do? Start the computer by using the Windows XP startup floppy disks, and repair the registry. Start the computer by using the Windows XP startup floppy disks, and repair the system files. Start the computer by using the last known good configuration. Start the computer in Recovery Console. Delete the SCSI controller driver. Answer/Explanation Start the computer by using the last known good configuration. The Last Known Good Configuration will load the last hardware and registry configuration that was automatically saved by Windows XP from the last successful start up of Windows XP and can thus be used to return to the system to the system state before the driver was installed.10.Your Windows 2003 Server has a single hard disk and you are now confronted with the problem of the installation of an application that will require the ability to write a large number of small temporary files to a single directory.To satisfy the needs of this application you install three new 80-GB SCSI disks to hold these temporary files. You want to ensure that the application can use all available space with a single drive letter with the fast-est possible performance when writing the temporary files. Which of the following would be the best so-lution? These three disks should be converted to dynamic disks and then a striped volume created. These three disks should be converted to dynamic disks and then a RAID-5 volume created. Create a single NTFS volume on each of the three disks and extend the volume to create a spanned volume that includes the space on all three disks. Create a single NTFS volume on each of the three disks and extend the volume to create a spanned volume that includes the space on all three disks. Answer/Exlpanation These three disks should be converted to dynamic disks and then a striped volume created. A striped volume will use all available space and offer the best performance because the disks will read in parallel. Although this does not offer fault tolerance as with RAID-5 but this was not in this question.Remember that a striped volume must be created on a dynamic disk. Percentage: Return Home Return to top.
Start the computer by using the Windows XP startup floppy disks, and repair the registry. Start the computer by using the Windows XP startup floppy disks, and repair the system files. Start the computer by using the last known good configuration. Start the computer in Recovery Console. Delete the SCSI controller driver.
The Last Known Good Configuration will load the last hardware and registry configuration that was automatically saved by Windows XP from the last successful start up of Windows XP and can thus be used to return to the system to the system state before the driver was installed.
These three disks should be converted to dynamic disks and then a striped volume created. These three disks should be converted to dynamic disks and then a RAID-5 volume created. Create a single NTFS volume on each of the three disks and extend the volume to create a spanned volume that includes the space on all three disks. Create a single NTFS volume on each of the three disks and extend the volume to create a spanned volume that includes the space on all three disks.
A striped volume will use all available space and offer the best performance because the disks will read in parallel. Although this does not offer fault tolerance as with RAID-5 but this was not in this question.Remember that a striped volume must be created on a dynamic disk.
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