Compaq dc7100 HP Compaq Business Desktop PCs - Developing a Common Windows XP - Page 13

Appendix E - References Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Professional Resource Kit, Microsoft Press; Redmond, Washington, ©2000, Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional Resource Kit, Microsoft Press; Redmond, Washington ©2001, Microsoft Corporation. "Microsoft Windows Corporate Deployment Tools User's Guide", Unpublished work* ©2001, Microsoft Corporation "Microsoft Windows 2000 Guide to Unattended Setup", Unpublished work** ©2000, Microsoft Corporation. "Microsoft Windows 2000 Presinstallation Kit", Unpublished work** ©2000, Microsoft Corporation. * - This document is contained on the Windows XP operating system media, located in the deploy.cab file in the support\tools directory. ** - This document is contained on the Windows 2000 operating system media, located in the deploy.cab file in the support\tools directory. Appendix F - Obtaining drivers from the HP Restore Plus! CD The HP Restore Plus! CD has the advantage of containing drivers from multiple platforms within a product family on one CD, all in a viewable directory structure. The restore CD provides you with a single source for all necessary drivers. In addition, the drivers are in a format that allows easy integration into the Sysprep Plug-and-Play driver installation framework. It is important to note that the directory structure on the restore CD is not optimized for easy viewing as the CD's primary purpose is a file store read by the restore CD's engine. Note: Beginning in 2003, contents of the restore CD were compressed to save space on the CD. The compression format used is cabinet, or "cab", compression. There are several tools available to uncompress this format, including expand.exe, which is included with Microsoft's Windows 2000 and XP operating systems in the %windir%\system32 directory. After pulling drivers from the restore CD, you must expand all of the extracted files before they will be usable in a common image scenario. If a product family contains more than one restore CD (for example the HP Compaq dc7100 family), you can repeat the following driver search and pooling process on each CD. All drivers are stored under the SW directory at the root of the CD. Browsing to this directory will reveal many subdirectories; however, very few of these directories actually contain the drivers necessary to create a common image. 13