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For those computer geeks who often need to give friends down or reinstall the operating system, the long wait for each installation of Windows system is tantamount to one torture. Although there are partition mirroring software such as Ghost, but each computer configuration is different, the Windows detection of hardware is not the same, coupled with the unique activation strategy of Windows XP/2003, which seems to make Ghost useless. In fact, these are not unsolved. As long as the automatic answer file is combined with Ghost, we can also create a Windows package for all computers, so that it takes only ten minutes to complete the tedious installation of the previous few hours. .

First, uninstall the driver

Everyone knows that when installing Windows for the first time, the system will detect the current computer hardware and install the corresponding driver, so one is normal. Before running Windows packages, you need to uninstall various drivers, and this is necessary for the final package to be used in other computers.

1. Uninstalling Hardware Drivers

Uninstalling hardware drivers is not free to uninstall in Device Manager. It must be done in a certain order. Usually we can refer to the steps such as network card, USB device, sound card, graphics card, and display. When uninstalling the driver, first select a device from the device manager, then right-click and select the "Uninstall" command from the pop-up menu.

2. Changing ACPI Properties

ACPI is the meaning of advanced power management. Although most computers today support ACPI, the ACPI types of different motherboards are different. If you use a computer with a different ACPI, then There is a problem that the computer cannot be soft-shutdown, so be sure to change the ACPI attribute. To change the ACPI properties, first select “Computer →ACPI Uniprocessor PC" from the Explorer, and then select the "Update Drivers" command from the right mouse button menu. In the Driver Update Wizard that appears, select &ldquo ; Install &rarr from the list or specified location; do not search, I have to choose the program to be installed, then you can see the window shown in Figure 1 (Figure 1), change the ACPI type to "Standard PC" Items can be.

3. Changing Drive Properties

It is very important to change the properties of a disk drive during the process of creating a Windows package. If you ignore this step, other computers will not boot the computer properly after installing Windows with this package. Restart failure. So we need to change the IDE controller to a standard dual-channel PCI IDE controller to make it suitable for today's different types of motherboards. First find the currently used IDE controller from Explorer's "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller". Right click the mouse and select "Change Driver" from the pop-up menu, then the driver appears. In the update wizard, select “ install &rarr from the list or specified location; do not search, I have to choose the program to be installed, and finally select "Standard dual-channel PCI IDE controller" from the window.

After completing the driver uninstallation of the above three aspects, you can basically use the Windows auto answer file to create the package. However, it is important to note that no matter whether you uninstall the hardware driver or change the related properties, the system will prompt you to restart the computer after you finish. Remember not to restart the computer. Instead, the program will automatically shut down the computer during the repackaging process below. Otherwise, after rebooting the computer, the system will prompt you to discover new hardware and install a new driver.

Figure 1 Changing ACPI Properties

2. Creating Auto Answer Files

Friends familiar with Windows 9x/2000 know that the system provides a hidden auto answer file program. Windows XP also has this file, which makes it easy to create automatic answer files. First find the file named deploy.cab from the "\\support\\tools" directory of the Windows XP installation CD, extract it to the hard disk, run the setupmgr.exe file to activate the installation manager wizard, below Let's try it together.

Step 1 When you run the installation manager for the first time, the program will ask you to create a new file or modify the saved answer file. In general, select “Create new file”.

The second step and then the program provides three types of installation, the answer file for unattended installation is generally Unattend.txt; Sysprep installation can choose answer file, generally used in automatic installation mode; remote installation The service allows us to install Windows from a remote installation server, where we choose the "Sysprep" type to continue.

The third step is to select the Windows version corresponding to the answer file. At this time, according to your actual situation, for example, the author selects “Windows XP Professional”.

The fourth step in the window shown in Figure 2 can choose whether to fully auto-install (Figure 2), in general, it is recommended to select "Yes, completely automatic installation", otherwise use this package CD It is still more troublesome to install the system.

Step 5 Click on the “Next” button to enter the installation manager interface. It is not difficult to find out that this is the various information that we need to manually input during the normal installation of Windows XP, so we are Here, after setting each parameter separately, an unattended automatic installation can be realized. However, not all of this information has to be entered, just set the name and unit, time zone, product key, computer name and other parameters, but the language must select <;Chinese (Simplified)” otherwise Installed Windows XP may affect your normal use!

Step 6 Finally, you can see the window shown in Figure 3 (Figure 3). Here is the path to save the answer file. After confirming, the automatic answer file creation operation can be completed.

Figure 2 Selecting the installation method

Figure 3 Making the answer file

Third, repackaging

After completing the above operations, the next step is to Repackaged. At this time, just double-click the sysprep.exe file in the unzipped folder from the Windows XP installation CD. First, you will see the prompt window shown in Figure 4 (Figure 4), click “ OK & rdquo; and then prepare the package.

There are several buttons in the window shown in Figure 5 (Figure 5), where the "Audit Start" & "The Factory" button is of little use, but the following options are more important. Here is a brief introduction.

1. PnP: It is used to detect plug-and-play hardware. Generally, check this item, so the system will detect non-plug and play hardware in the computer during installation. It can be some antique level. The hardware works fine.

2. MiniSetup: Minimize the installation. It is generally recommended to check this box.

3. NoSIDGen: Does not generate a security identifier, which avoids annoying Windows XP activation detection, so it needs to be checked.

4. Activated in advance: Checking this option means that the Windows XP system has been activated by default, and it is recommended to use it for convenience.

After the setup is complete, click on the “Repackage” button at the top, and the Windows system will automatically repackage the computer and automatically shut down the computer when it is finished. At this time, the partition that originally installed Windows XP is a clean package system disk. Finally, the computer can be booted into DOS mode through a floppy disk or CD. After it is cloned and mirrored by Ghost, it is burned to a CD, so that it can be used on other computers. Install Windows XP quickly.

Figure 4 Prompt Window

Figure 5 Preparing the Package

IV. Notes

Although the above method can be used to create a new Windows XP package. However, there are some notable places in the whole process and in use, so please pay attention to it.

1. Before packaging, you can clean up the junk files in the system and perform defragmentation to optimize the Windows system. This ensures that the resulting package files are minimal and stable.

2. When creating the auto answer file, the computer name and installation serial number must be entered correctly, because when the Ghost recovery is completed, the system has not found the mouse and keyboard drivers, they are not available. With the state, so you can't enter any characters, you have to rely on the auto answer file to automatically enter.

3. When burning Ghost's image file, you can make it as a system boot CD, and add Ghost program auto-run command in the batch process, which can simplify the trouble of manually inputting various commands.

4. After installing the Windows XP system through the package, there are also various hardware drivers installed. However, if you are only using a quick recovery installation of your own computer, you can ignore the initial uninstall driver steps.

5. Interested friends can also calculate the size of the Ghost image file, use the extra space to install some system patches, necessary software, etc., which is more convenient for us to use the computer directly.

How about, Windows XP can also be installed quickly in this way. If you want to experience the convenience of fast recovery system, let's try it. I believe this package installation method will let The friends around you are looking at you!