1. @cerberus8855 agreed - i have used this software since Legacey and very impressed. 2. @AnarethoS i have an idea, how hard would it be to add a fuction or create a script that would install the product key and cert to the "system /S:" partition. The premise install windows (7/8) inside audit mode install software and drivers etc run afore mentioned script to install product key and cert for perminant activation even if full restore is done, no need to re-enter the product key simular to loader but for legit OS's.
For win 7 I know you can activate from within audit mode and it keeps activation upon a recovery. I dont know about win 8. The multi oem activation for vista/win7 works with this app but runs during oobe like it should (you should be able to run the oobe.cmd file within audit mode to get the activation within win 7). If you use the multi oem activation method for win 7 it will run during oobe by default unless you run it from within audit mode so if you recover your system it will run again when booting up and end user will never know it so why activate during audit mode? Guess it is just your preference. I know windows loader works in audit mode and if you manually enter the cert and serial from cmd prompt during audit mode it should work. You really dont need a script. Typing a couple lines from cmd prompt to activate it before capturing isnt that hard nor time consuming. Just google for script to install cert and serial and I am sure you will get alot of results to look at and can build your own script from it as you wish. Google is your friend. This app here was never intended to do any activations nor will it be. Got to learn to combine methods to get your end result you are looking for. This is a finished product to me and needs no addons for when ppl add addons it tends to break something. Lets keep it simple and know that it works like it should. I use this app (mbr) and multi oem activation to use on win 7. Also I added into the multi oem script (for win8 you need to change name of script to FirstLogon.cmd not OOBE.cmd) for branding on win 8 but it cannot activate for every serial is different (no shared keys unless it is server 2012). Then in win 8 I can use kms activation which can be used in audit mode (tested) and win 8 will look like oem (dell, hp, etc) but use the kms activation. Got to learn to combine methods to get your end result.
@wahab123 The (U)efi USB is bootable, but whithout any function. No reinstall is possible,tested on VMWare. Any Ideas?
Answered in PM. You can use SetupComplete/FirstLogon script or modify the Sysprep.Xml file to achieve this.
You will have to create all your partition manually (don't use AutoUnattend.xml). for Windows 7 you need : Partition 1 : Recovery partition (around 12gb) - Primary - NTFS Partition 2 : Boot partition (around 300mb) - Primary - Active - NTFS Partition 3 : Windows 7 partition (the sieze you want) - Primary - NTFS Partition 4 : Your data partition On the first Windows 7 (whre you can create your user) : Press CTRL+SHIFT+F3 to switch to Audit mode from there, you can use my script without any problem. Take note that using the USB key to reinstall your computer will erase the recovery partition except if you edit the ResetPartitions.txt file to prevent this!
VMware doest works with the create USB key Under 64bits system... seems to works with 32bits Uefi (32bits Uefi does not exist Under Windows 7).
Note to all : I am actually working on a module to add DVD recovery for Windows 8 (Windows 7 will be later). Currently working on the base script. But please note that I am currently late for my university course, that I have to move at the end of june to my new apartment and I learnd 3 weeks ago that I will be a father So it will take time before even the first beta with this option. Please be patient. Thanks all for your support and kind works on my Tools
Also, telling me "Option XXXX does not works" or "This feature is not workins" doesn help me at all. Please give me the following information to help be debug (at least) : - Computer type (physical or virtual) - Partition layout (if changed from the original) - Description of the problems - Error message if you have any - Bios type (UEFI/BIOS) - Partition type (GPT/MBR) Also, try to use original Microsoft/MSDN disk. Disk from computer manufactuer or All-In-One disk may behave diffrently and can sometime not works with my Tools. And if something is not working, tyr with a basic setup : Windows + minimum drivers only. No software. Somethime it has nothing to do with my script but with one of the installed software. Thanks for your understanding.
i have an SSD, installed windows 8 and software drivers etc, now i tried the windows 8 recovery tools, and it get as far as the loading files, then loops back to bios any information on how to filx this please i will note i reinstalled this and the same thing happened twice
Did you had to add drivers for you SATA controler in Windows to install it? Look liste Recovery Environment can't find your SSD/HDD.
Hi, first of all, sorry for my poor english...i'm french i'm a proud owner of an ASUS Vivobook And i completly formated the hard drive (low level format). Now, i plan to do à clean "factory" install of windows 8. When i bought it, i saw 2 partitions in disk management : the first one for the recovery (900mo) wisch was just before the OS partition, And the second one for the système image (20.01Go). I would know if it´s possible to do my clean install like ASUS do with this recovery tools and how i can do it. thanks for your help edit : i'm reading the documentation and it seems to be clear : i'll do a clean UEFI installation of windows 8 from a USB key, then i Will have to use 2 USB keys during the process, one with the tools to configure thé recovery/ restore partitions and the other with the windows setup., ok? just à question : i want to have partitions like this : 1- recovery partition: 900 mo 2- OS partition : 186 go 3- Data : 258 go 4- image partition : 20.01 go When do i have to configure partitions like this? thx
@rastaseb For the USB stuff, simply copy my Autounattend.xml file to the root of the USB key used to install. For your partition stuff, I ansewered to you in french by PM.
I'm lost at the moment and suspect I'm missing something so hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. I've copied the "Autotunattend.xml" to the root of my Win 7 Install Flash Drive. I then read that I need to copy the "MBR" folder to "Settings", which I did. I am then supposed to run "update_settings" before copying over the install folder. The problem I'm running into is the "update_settings" says "The system cannot find the path specified." or "Could Not Find C:\Windows\Installer\SettingsRE.txt" So, can anyone point me in the write direction on what I"m doing wrong? Thanks
@AnarethoS in the windows 7 and 8 recovery tools is therer a way to create recovery DVDs? or any future plans? this is such a good idea to do.... many clients dont want to buy a flash drive and have it just sit there. DVDs are a great idea
this is the configuration i want to create 1-Recovery 15Go 2-System 350Mo 3-Windows 250Go 4-Data 320Go 5-Backup disk left can someone can send me by PM modification i need to made. i try but at install i got error "Windows can't create partition on disk 0..." error 0x80004005 thanks
Hello I created usb for win 7 and everything was ok in cmd window. after this i copyed to flash drive Autounattend.xml from MBR folder and Install folder to the root directory of the flash drive After this i insterted flash drive in the usb port and start installing windows.