Hi, I've already activated w7 on my dell following the instructions in the stickies. However, I wonder is there a way to make a OEM disk for Dell? I have several computers and I reinstall them from time and time, it'll be great if I don't have to manually activate them after installation. I followed the instruction in the vista forum and that doesn't seem to work for windows 7 (create pid.txt, copy cert to the iso) Thanks in advance!
What is the value number for x64 Windows 7 Professional? Also, will I have to change anything else from the x64 autounattened.xml for it to work with x64 bit version of Pro?
I prefer to use DSIM to set Product Key OEM SLP to WIN7 install.wim, then put the certificate file and other stuff such as OEM Logo etc into $OEM$ folder.
x64 <IMAGE INDEX="1"> <EDITIONID>HomeBasic</EDITIONID> <IMAGE INDEX="2"> <EDITIONID>HomePremium</EDITIONID> <IMAGE INDEX="3"> <EDITIONID>Professional</EDITIONID> <IMAGE INDEX="4"> <EDITIONID>Ultimate</EDITIONID> BTW I slipped my key with Dism and it failed and I do have the DELL.xrm-ms certificate injected. Added key in xml and its running now in VM
apparently that comes from the unknowing. You can do so many things with an xml like <EnableLUA>false</EnableLUA>, set your wallpaper, screen res and a boatload of other stuff. You do it right and you don't have to touch crap and when its done its the way you want it to be and not MS way.
VM(Virtualbox) hanging up for some reason, Frickit burned iso to dvd and went for a full Install ProductKey on xml(2 places), Certificate injected into install.wim slic 2.1 bios NO SLP.cmd with the cscript stuff I'm activated on Se7en Ultimate when I hit the desktop with my Rock&Roll playing, kewl Thanks urie, you told me I didn't need the slp.cmd with Dell and try as i done above Thats it M8 it works without the cscript mess
Why not just us make a $OEM$ folder and do it like this: $OEM$\$$\System32\OEM\cert.xrm-ms $OEM$\$$\Setup\Scripts\SetupComplete.cmd and inside the setupcomplete put: cscript "%windir%\System32\slmgr.vbs" -ipk KEY Thats what I've always done it But then again that doesn't skip the screen in setup for product key, so maybe use DISM or something
I used Dism to inject my productKey but it kept hanging in VirtualBox and wouldn't go on till I added to xml and then it hung later on for some reason and I couldn't see what was wrong from the Panther folder. Jacked with it for 4 hours then knew I had my Acronis backup so I went for a full install Already do all the $OEM$ things but when i mount the image (Se7en_UA) I move everything where it needs to be. Found that works better I tried like we been doing for a long time. I'm just saying you don't need any of the cscript stuff and it's activated, not sure why OEMs do it. slmgr -dli | slmgr -xpr | slmgr -dlv all say I'm fine I went and d/l Media Player 11 although I don't use it but it require install WGA and it was fine.
Tried that but no go. Setup asks me for a key during OOBE. slmgr -dlv shows partial product key as PW487 (default). I also tried this format with no success: Code: <MetaData wcm:action="add"> <Key>/IMAGE/NAME</Key> <Value>Windows 7 Professional</Value> </MetaData>
You would be far better starting off with clean install dvd rather than vlited one also is it x64 dvd and not x86. If running windows 7 copy install.wim to c:\ example: At the command prompt, type the following command to retrieve the name or index number for the image.