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Contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 2
Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................... 4
Notations used in the text ................................................................................................................... 5
Optical disk drive ................................................................................................................................. 5
Hard disk drive .................................................................................................................................... 5
Removal Media ................................................................................................................................... 5
Trademarks ........................................................................................................................................................... 7
License Notification ............................................................................................................................................... 8
License sentence ...................................................................................................................... 8
Latest editions ................................................................................................................................... 11
Chapter 1 Installing Windows ........................................................................................................................... 12
1.2 Supported Windows OS............................................................................................................. 14
2. Flow of Windows Installation .......................................................................................................................... 25
3.2 Rapid Setup ............................................................................................................................... 33
3.2.1 Setup flow ....................................................................................................................... 33
3.3 Manual Installation ..................................................................................................................... 44
3.3.1 Setup flow ....................................................................................................................... 44
3.5 Setup of Device Drivers ............................................................................................................. 60
3.6 License Authentication ............................................................................................................... 65
3.6.1 Desktop Experience ........................................................................................................ 65
3.6.2 Server Core .................................................................................................................... 69
3.7.2 Creating a team .............................................................................................................. 70
3.8 Installing Applications ................................................................................................................ 72
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