Creating a Windows 8.1 AIO with Media Center manually

So i did the Create windows 8 pro with media center only and i have one question ,when it says ,delete the data.dat and replace it .
That means that i have to replace it with the data.dat of my currently working windows 8 (activated with the wmc offer) cuz thats what i did ,i deleted the whole store folder and replace it with mien.
Is this the correct way ?
What will i need to do next ,just use the iso that i created ,install the windows ,any aditional steps ?

EDIT: My image size is 664mb?

 

that is really wrong , never delete store folder , delete only the files [ *.dat ]

 

Ok,let`s take it stepwise.
1.I will restore the store forlder from the iso.
2.What`s up with that image size
THx for the post BTOR

 

windows 8 image can not be 664 mb , the least ie X86 is 2+ gb so you image is corrupted/incomplete.

 

must be an XP version of W8

 

The question remains though ... from where do you get the data.dat file to replace the one you deleted?

 

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Hi! Thanks for the detailed tutorial but I have one instruction that I can't understand.

My question is where would I get the other "data.dat" to replace the deleted data.dat in "C:\win8\mount\Windows\System32\spp\store\data.dat"?

Thank you.

 

The assumption here is that you have purchased and installed your own version of windows 8 pro and had activated it. and then using your own data file create your own version of windows with WMC included, easy of installing in the future.

 

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Thank you very much!

 

I have a MSDN .iso "Windows 8 (multiple editions x64)" containing Windows 8 & Windows 8 Pro. I want create manually a .iso "Windows 8 Pro with WMC". I need to know which folders i have to create and where to put the files in the original MSDN.iso (multiple editions x64) decompressed. Thank you for your help

 

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It doesn't matter for the most part. The steps in the tutorial show you exactly how to do it. In the end you should have a Windows 8 ProWMC iso.

 

Thanks for all replies
Now, if I want to create this .iso Windows 8 Pro with WMC is activated in the first installation, is it possible? There some way to create this .iso pre-activated? Or necessarily I have to find some other alternative as 'Microsoft Toolkit' or other alternative? What would you recommend?

 

To be correct there will be only one Index left, 'ProfessionalWMC'.

Code:

WIM Information:
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GUID:        {EA03ABE1-6332-4DB6-909D-AC3C31EAAD4B}
Image Count:    1
Compression:    LZX
Part Number:    1/1
Attributes:    0x8
        RP_FIX

Image Index: 1
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Name:        Windows 8 Pro with Media Center
Description:    Windows 8 Pro with Media Center
Flags:        ProfessionalWMC
Files:        82273
Folders:        18299
Expanded Size:    12079 MB

 

You can do this via Audit Mode and Sysprep .

 

I read somewhere that Sysprep removes activation. Is this true or not? I personally haven't done it.

I do know one can add startup batch or kms to the iso/install.wim.

 

It removes the activation status in sysprep. In Audit Mode i installed KMS Server Service and created 2 tasks for reactivation (DAILY and ONLOGON) with a little batch for activation commands.

When the system starts for the first time it´s already activated .


EDIT: Needed to activate in Audit Mode, as it refused the sysprep before .