WEEK 15 INSTALLATION OF BASIC SOFTWARE

INSTALLING WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM(WINDOWS 7 IN 2007)
It is important to understand that this guide was specifically designed for a lab
environment. There are a lot of operating system vulnerabilities that are intentionally left
unpatched in these installation steps. This is intentionally done to give you the best
results when completing the labs and tutorials in this book. If you are interested, a great
reference for building a Windows 7 Professional box that is secure enough for a
production environment is Windows 7.
To create a properly configured laptop for the Security Essentials Boot Camp, follow the
detailed steps in this document—from the initial setup screen to the final login. This
guide was designed for use on a system that doesn't already have a Windows platform
installed on it. If your machine does not have a blank hard drive, some of the screens you
see at the beginning of the installation may be different from what you see in this chapter.
If different screens appear, it is important that you always choose the option to replace,
or overwrite. Do not choose to upgrade. The Windows install should also be placed in the
default c:\windows directory.

Creating Boot Disks
If your system does not support the capability to boot off of a CD-ROM, you can use the
Windows 7 boot disk to boot. If you do not have a set of the four disks, you need to use
a machine that already has Windows 7 Professional installed on it. The following steps
show you how to create the four boot disks:
1. Label four blank, formatted, 3.5-inch, 1.44-MB floppy disks as: Setup
Disk One, Setup Disk Two, Setup Disk Three, and Setup Disk Four.
2. Insert Setup Disk One into the floppy disk drive of a Windows or DOS
system.
3. Insert the Windows 7 CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.
4. Click Start, and then click Run.
5. In the Open box, type D:\bootdisk\makeboot a: (where D: is the drive
letter assigned to your CD-ROM drive), and then click OK.
6. Follow the screen prompts.
7. After you have completed the screen prompt requests, insert Setup Disk
One into the floppy disk drive of the lab PC and power the PC on.

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