2-51CASE SCENARIO EXERCISES■ FLOPPY DRIVE, MOUSE, KEYBOARD■ SVGA MONIT...

2-51Case Scenario Exercises■

Floppy drive, mouse, keyboard

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SVGA monitor and video card

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10 Mbps Ethernet network card

You will reformat the hard disk, create one partition that uses the entire hard disk, and

install Windows XP Professional.

Question

What additional hardware do you need to install onto the computer prior to installing

Windows XP?

Scenario 2.2

One of your users wants you to install Windows XP Professional on his workstation.

Currently, the workstation is running Windows 98. The user wants to continue hav-

ing Windows 98 running on the computer because he often must test the software

he develops on that system. The user’s computer is configured with the following

hardware:

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2.4 GHz Pentium 4 processor

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512 MB of RAM

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60 GB hard disk

There are currently 2 partitions on the hard disk: a 20 GB partition on which Win-

dows 98 and the user’s current applications are installed and a 15 GB partition on

which the user stores his documents. Both partitions are formatted using the

FAT32 file system. There is 25 GB of unpartitioned space.

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24x CD-ROM drive

How should you configure this computer to run both Windows 98 and Windows XP

Professional?

Troubleshooting Lab

Read the following troubleshooting scenario and then answer the question that fol-

lows. You can use this lab to help determine whether you have learned enough to

move on to the next chapter. If you have difficulty completing this work, review the

material in this chapter before beginning the next chapter. You can find the answer to

this question in the “Questions and Answers” section at the end of this chapter.

Scenario

One of your users is attempting to upgrade to Windows XP Professional on a computer

that has been running Windows 98. Her computer has one hard disk that is configured

with a single partition. She has already backed up her computer and plans to reformat

the partition, and then perform a clean installation of Windows XP Professional. She

has configured her BIOS to start the computer from CD-ROM. When she starts the com-

puter, the text mode stage of Windows XP Professional Setup begins as expected.

However, when the user tries to reformat the partition, her computer presents an error

message stating that a virus is attempting to infect the boot sector of her hard disk. She

is certain that she is using a genuine Windows XP Professional installation CD.

What do you suspect is the problem?