I purchase a eee pc laptop and want to fresh install windows 7 home premium. Is there a way from an ultimate retail image to convert it to home premium oem to accept the key in the bottom of the laptop? It didnt come with a reinstallation disc.
I know how to do 90% of what I need to do, the secret sauce I haven't figured out yet is adding a 6th index (Enterprise) into my all-in-one while preserving the deduping of files so the image doesn't bloat to over 4gb. If I can do that I can reduce down to 1 usb installer per architecture (The extra language packs would cause an i386/amd64 combined image to be larger than my 4gb sticks). I really wish the WAIK documentation read more like proper documentation and less like someone's working notes. Edit - I took another pass through the documentation and think I may have finally figured it out: dism /mount-wim /wimfile:c:\ent\sources\install.wim /name "Windows 7 ENTERPRISE" /mountdir:c:\mnt /readonly imagex /append c:\mnt c:\aio\sources\install.wim "Windows 7 ENTERPRISE" dism /umount-wim /mountdir:c:\mnt /discard *regenerate enterprise catalog with WSIM and make usb with poweriso I'll have to try this over the weekend - guess I'll have a lot of installs to do to test the thing.
As you said " key in the bottom of the laptop " I believe that your laptop already has SLIC 2.1, then you can activate with Cert and SLP key. if you have Windows 7 Ultimate ISO, Open it with UltraISO => Click Sources Folder => Delete the file called ei.cfg, then burn it . Choose Home Premium as installation.