Off Topic>> I want to change Windows 7 boot animation after Windows installation is completed with Win7bootupdater.exe. anyone can help me??
I tried the same process by mounting boot.wim via dism.exe but no avail becoz the setup gave me error. After replacing the boot.wim with original boot.wim from Win 8.1 the setup startd fine. So all this effort for no result. Just replace install.esd and try
For people who want to do this with a windows 10 boot.wim: This is done on a 16299.15 boot.wim: For x86 use x86 boot.wim from win 7 SP1 and 10. For x64, use x64 files. (source info by @Mr.X ) Code: 1. Open boot.wim index 2 from Windows 7 (x86 OR x64), using 7ip and copy ARUNIMG.dll and spwizimg.dll from sources folder. 2. Mount boot.wim index 2 of the windows 10 boot.wim 3. Copy those 2 dll's to sources folder overwriting the existing ones. 3. Also replace the ones in boot.wim index 2 of a) Windows 10 x86 in sources and into Windows\WinSxS\x86_microsoft-windows-i..dia-branding-client_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.16299.15_none_7249f7962cc26898 b) Windows 10 x64 in sources and into Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-i..dia-branding-client_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.16299.15_none_ce689319e51fd9ce Unmount and Commit changes. Note: sources and WinSxS folders are protected with TrustedInstaller you need to take ownership of the files first Code: takeown /f file1 icacls file1 /grant *S-1-5-32-544:F copy /y file2 file1 file2 in the file you want to place instead file1 and yes, you have to write the full path
if you remember, i asked you how to do this few months ago as i had integrated win7 install.esd file into win8.1 iso to be able to install win7 and asked you if there is a trick to replace win8.1 boot screen image by the one of win7 and you had told me at that time to use murphy's script as it allows to boot directly into a command prompt so that you can use the script's options to be able to install win7 according to your needs and indeed it was a way around this problem to get rid of the win8.1 boot screen image and now i finally found out how to fix this issue without the script with this great trick.
I also tried this method because I wanted to convert install.wim into install.esd to save some space on my flash drive for other ISOs. Unfortunately I found a HUGE flaw in this method when testing in VirtualBox: by replacing Windows 7 installer with Windows 8 installer, the target computer must now support PAE/NX CPU extensions, otherwise the installer won't let you install Windows 7 which doesn't require them. Enabling the PAE/NX checkbox helps, but on a real machine without these instructions it simply will not work. I also downloaded "Windows 7 Sp1 Ultimate 16in1 [x86 x64] OEM ESD en-US Oct 2014 by Generation2-=TEAM OS=-{HKRG}" to see if this limitation had been somehow disabled, unfortunately it has the same problem. The latest release is "Windows 7 Sp1 AIO (x86x64) 13in2 en-us Nov2018-=TEAM OS=-" but it uses the original Windows 7 installer + install.wim in 2 separate ISOs for x64 and x86. The only solution would be to do the reverse: find out which files on the Windows 7 installer could be replaced by files from the Windows 8 installer to add ESD support, but if nobody found out by now, it's most probably not possible
As you do not get any updates on Windows 7 if you don't have SSE2, this is not an issue anymore. Actually, it prevents you from installing an OS you can't update in the end. Windows 7 on devices without SSE2 is already EOL. Same for XP POS.
That's not the point I was trying to make. Simply put, the modded Windows 7 installer WILL FAIL on some CPUs where the original Windows 7 installer didn't, regardless of EOL. As a comparison, imagine creating a new installer for Windows XP that made the installation 30% smaller but would not work on single core CPUs... I don't know if anyone has tried to add ESD support to the Windows 7 installer or just decided to use the 8.x instead. I tried a simple copy/paste just to see what would happen, so this is what I did: - mounted Windows 7 boot.wim - deleted \sources folder - mounted Windows 8 boot.wim - copied \sources folder to Windows 7 boot.wim - replaced Windows 8 install.wim with Windows 7 install.esd What happens: Windows 7 ISO boots normally, first screen is Windows 7 language select window, followed by Windows 7 "Install Now" window, when pressed it starts the Windows 8 dark blue background with "Setup is starting" sentence, then it jumps back to the Windows 7 dialog with the "A required CD/DVD device driver is missing", probably because Windows 8 setup files were expecting a different set of drivers. I tried adding the content of Windows 8 boot.wim to a \WIN8 folder in the root of the ISO, then point the installer to the \WIN8\Windows\INF folder but it just gets stuck in a searching loop. I have other stuff to do with higher priority, so I'll keep this "project" in the back burner. if I ever figure out an approach that works, I'll post it here, otherwise Mr.X's solution is a viable workaround but only for CPUs that are also compatible with Windows 8 or Windows 8.1, depending on the installer you use as source. EDIT: Do you mean that you managed to use install.esd with the original Windows 7 installer? Do you mind explaining what steps you took to do it? EDIT2: Only now I noticed SSE2 is for ANY Pentium 4 and later, only Pentium 3 support was (mischiefly) dropped by M$, so Windows 8 installer only works with P4 and later. Windows 8.1 x64 however also requires the CMPXCHG16b instruction. so Mr.X instructions should be used with Windows 8, not 8.1.