Use EaseUS partiotion manager: Free EaseUS Home Edition

In the command shell window, type diskpart and then press Enter.

1. Type “list disk” and then press Enter. You should see an entry for each hard disk that is installed on the computer. You should also see an entry for the attached USB drive. Write down the disk number (for example, Disk 2) that represents the USB drive.
2. Type “select disk <n>” (where <n> is the disk number you wrote down) and then press Enter.
   • WARNING: Be sure you have identified the correct disk number of the USB drive. You are about to delete all files that are stored on the selected disk.
3. Type “clean” and then press Enter.
4. Type “create partition primary” and then press Enter.
5. Type “select partition 1” and then press Enter.
6. Type active and then press Enter.
7. Do one of the following:
   • Type “format fs=fat32 quick” and then press Enter.
   • Type “format fs=ntfs quick” and then press Enter.
8. Type “assign” and then press Enter.
9. Type “exit” and then press Enter.

Note: The size of the FLASH disk must be ⇐4GB, it must be formatted with FAT16 for XP to install

Instructions:

• HP drive key boot utility, use it for formatting the USB FLASH drive, you can also make it bootable
• Use “nLite” to customize the XP installation, you can preconfigure pretty much anything
  • Download the Windows Updates Downloader or WUD and download the SP and latest updates for XP, use the nLite to slipstream the updates and SPs into your installation
• Use PE to USB to transfer the iso image created by nLite to USB FLASH drive
• boot from USB FLASH drive and install windows XP.
  • Win XP natively does not support SATA interface. There are two things that you can do:
    • Some BIOSes support IDE emulation mode, install XP using this mode
    • Add the appropriate driver into you windows installation using nLite

The easiest and reliable tool to use is Windows 7 USB DVD download tool from Microsoft: Windows7-USB-DVD-tool.exe.

• http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool

You can use USB FLASH drive > 4GB for installing Windows 7 using the Microsoft tool

http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/techtip-installing-symantec-recovery-disk-srd-usb-flash-drive

• RDP port default value is 3389
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306759

1. Start Registry Editor.
2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TerminalServer\WinStations\RDP-Tcp\PortNumber
3. On the Edit menu, click Modify, and then click Decimal.
4. Type the new port number, and then click OK.
5. Quit Registry Editor.

• Open the newly assigned port in the Windows firewall for incoming traffic

Note When you try to connect to this computer by using the Remote Desktop connection, you must type the new port. 304304 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304304/ ) How to configure the Remote Desktop client to connect to a specific port when you use Windows XP

• To connect to port 3391 on a computer with IP address 10.10.10.1, type the following information: 10.10.10.1:3391

To enable ICMP ping response in Windows 7 you need to add Windows Firewall rule:

• Manually:
  • Control Panel –> System and security –> Windows Firewall –> Advanced settings –> Inbound rules –> New rule –> custom rule
  • in Protocol and ports: Protocol: ICMPv4 on the same panel go to customize, choose “Specific ICMP types”, check the box “echo request”
• Using Windows Powershell
  • Start → Search Windows Powershell, right click, run as Administrator
  • run:

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="ICMP Allow incoming V4 echo request" protocol=icmpv4 dir=in action=allow

Quickly Export and Import DHCP Reservations Windows 2008, Winows 2003 This simple process describes the how to migrate a DHCP reservation list without having to migrate the entire scope.

netsh dhcp server [ip address] scope [scope address] dump>c:\temp\reservations.txt
e.g. netsh dhcp server 172.20.2.33 scope 172.16.0.0 dump>c:\temp\reservations.txt

Edit the exported file in notepad 'reservations.txt' , Simply do a Find and Replace for the old DHCP server IP you ran the export on and change to the New DHCP server IP you are importing to and remove out everything else in the text file except for the reservations config section.

On the New DHCP server, make sure you create the new scope first, and ten just simply run the following command:

netsh exec C:\temp\reservations.txt

Done