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- Windows 7
Of all of our video training releases over the years, I have to admit that we received the most calls, emails and requests about our Windows 7 course. That’s why I’m so happy to announce today the official release of our Windows 7 Administration Training.
Your instructor, Scott Lowe, does an excellent job in making sure every Windows 7 administration task is fully explained and put into context. Everything from installing, upgrading, migrating, customizing and configuring to Windows 7 maintenance, performance and optimization is covered in this course.
And as always, all of the lessons in the Windows 7 Administration Training are available in multiple file formats for your convenience and include a free Transcender Practice Exam to help you prepare for the 70-680 MCTS exam.
Take a look at the video below to see what Scott had to say about the course during TechEd 2010.
Instructor Scott Lowe On His New Windows 7 Training
Learn more and watch a demo of our new Windows 7 Administration Training.
Scott. Probably not the best place to post this, but I’m currently watching Video 6 of the Windows 7 training. In the video you are using Hyper V just like I am. In Video 6 somehow you get your Autounattend.xml save to a VFD? How did you do that? I figured out how to create a VFD, but don’t understand how you got the autounattend to save to that so that you can boot your computer to that floppy and have it look at that Autounattend.xml
Hi, Dustin!
I’m not actually booting the full system from that floppy disk. I’m actually booting from the install media. However, the installer looks at removable devices to see if it can find the autounattend file.
Now, as for how I got the file on a virtual floppy in the first place. Hyper-V ships with a copy of a blank virtual floppy disk. I inserted this blank floppy into the machine on whcih I created the autounattend file and then saved the autounattend file to the virtual floppy disk.
When complete, I detached the virtual floppy from that machine and attached it to the target machine, made sure that the blank floppy media was loaded and booted the machine and made sure to select the DVD drive as the boot source. The installer found the autounattend file on the floppy drive.
You will need to make sure that your virtual floppy disk is “inserted” and that the floppy device is marked as connected at boot time or you’ll have problems.
I hope this helps!
Scott
One more item:
To create a new blank floppy disk:
From the Hyper-V Manager
1. Go to the Actions pane
2. Select New, then select Floppy Disk…
3. You will see a Create Virtual Floppy Disk dialog box.
4. Provide a file name and click Create
Hello Mr. Scott,
I am not using Hyper V. I have created the Autounattend.xml file ans saved it in the USB harddisk. I have connected the USB harddisk to the reference computer and the media for Win7 is also inserted. When I boot from the DVD , it is not able to read the autounattend.xml file. At the startup screen it asks for language settings.
I tried to follow the same proceudre how you have done it in your video lesson 6, but not in the hyper mode – conventinal mode.
Kindly help me out in this step.
Thanks,