Hi Josh, Another good idea, for now many people can have activated Windows 8 but I'm your file carefully.
Very busy on this days. But I'm hard testing this software here for release an stable and unbugged version..
I've developed one Kernel method to refresh all Windows drivers preventing the system from deactivate or don't activate when restore or the drivers is changed in Windows 8.
I'm just solving Windows Vista GUI incompatibilities. I'll release today when haven't any critical problem.
I'm a newguy on here, I found this site after your post windows 8 backup solution. I tried 3.3 and did not work on windows 8.
I did use that guide,but I used it on a different computer with a different motherboard which equals a 100 percent fail rate and activation is taken away...
I installed windows 8 enterprise non n 9200 inside vmware 8 next I activated it and then made a back up of the preserved state,I then turned off page file,hard drive indexing,super fetch,system restore also deleted any backups of restore points,then did a shutdown and uninstalled some stuff in the virtual machine hardware settings:floppy,network adapter,sound card. next I boot up and partitioned vmware 60gb hard drive into 50gb/10gb, 10gb being the partition I'll make backup image on using acronis, next I shut down vmware and attach acronis cd to vmware and at boot up I hit F2 to boot into the virtual machine bios and set cd to boot first so acronis will load and not windows 8,make the back up onto the 10gb partition and after that I reboot then pop usb stick in and copy the 4.26gb tib image acronis made to the usb stick, with this 4.25 gb image I then deploy it onto a real physical computer using acronis on a usb stick bootable. The computer I used was i7 920 DO on Asus Rampage Gene II 1366 board and hard drive was 300gb velociraptor sata II and 9GB of mushkin ram 3x2gb + 3x1gb sticks running 1600mhz 6-7-6-17t1..No bsoding happen!!! It really did work but windows is now deactivated,other thing I can think of is bios modding the motherboard to match the vmware serial code, I don't feel happy doing that. I'm see what tokens 3.4 does testing porXX rig number 2
Round two, This time I made a back up of the windows that got deactivated and pop it back into the vmware using acronis, amazingly it gets reactivated without using any software since the vmware hardware id match's again. I'm coming to idea that something in a file needs to be edited so it will work with the new hardware ID of the motherboard.