Installing Windows 7 Enterprise on a brand new PC

Hi, this is my first post here so please be gentle.
First of all I would like to mention what a great forum and resource this website is for noobs like myself and I would immensely appreciate any help / advice.
I recently applied for a Desktop Support position and gained an interview. Unfortunately I was unsuccessful at the interview stage. One of the questions asked in the interview was "talk me through how you would install Windows 7 Enterprise
on a brand new PC".
I've previously worked as an IT Service Desk Analyst but want to get out of this call centre environment and start working out in the field instead. I've previously performed clean installs of Windows 7 Home Premium numerous laptops at home during
my spare time. However, I understand that installing Windows 7 Enterprise on a new corporate PC is somewhat quite different and there are many approaches for this. I really need advice for this approach as I have another interview lined up for Wednesday and
am sure a similar sort of question will again be asked. I will also need to know how to add a new PC to the network once Windows 7 Enterprise is installed.
Any help will be much appreciated. Thank you.

it worked
thanks
but i actually have another problem
a year ago (whenever the newest Mac OS came out), i upgraded the OS.
in the middle of installing the OS, i got error messages, and i had to restart the installation a couple times before i finally got through.
when i tried to install OS X on my new hard drive, the same error message came up.
anyone know whats wrong with my computer?
thanks for all your help by the way.

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