All credits to abbodi1406 who created the nice package that makes it easy to handle the ESDs :flowers2:.
Yup. Installation from Sandisk Extreme 64GB USB Stick to Corsair Force GT 128 GB SSD. AHCI mode. (Once it starts copying files) Wim method: Total installation time: 3 Minutes Esd method: Total installation time: 6 minutes. So there is a difference.
Just wanted to ask a quick question. But it appears that it could become a couple of paragraphs... Lenovo, Dell, HP these days do not provide installation/recovery DVD with a new laptop(because of "piracy" concern, "fed regulations" etc). They instead make a recovery partition on the laptop's HD. This partition becomes useless after update to Windows 8 Pro and especially 8.1. No option to refresh or reinstall because of "recovery media not found" error after 8.1 update. Anyway, corporations are happy to sell you a recovery disc for a "small fee" ranging from $69 to $129 depending on a sales person. Theoretically, you should be able to burn a media on M$ web site with your key, but it should be a retail version key. Nothing for OEM. Lets say you are savvy and want to burn an recovery image yourself. Which one to chose from if on laptop you originally had a Windows 8 basic, upgraded to media center, then to pro and then to Windows 8.1 : should it be Core, Pro, Enterprise etc.? I do not want to invalidate the original key also (which I extracted from BIOS via RWEverything). Sorry for the long post. Hope one day somebody will make a tutorial for that. Best of luck in your digital lives to everybody!
@ mike 666 Strange to me since i just made a Recovery USB for a Clients HP Laptop (preinstall 8.0) also made a Recovery USB for Clients with (Dell Preinstalled 8.0 and 8.1), and Acer (Pre-installed 8.1) laptops...
Hi guys. sorry for the noob question. i want to clean install windows 8.1 single language . i have a laptop with pre install (oem) windows 8 single language on it. is this .esd file can clean install on my laptop? by the way i have already downloaded this file MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.8.1.SINGLE.LANGUAGE.RTM.X64.ENGLISH.DVD-WZT RELEASE DATE: 08/21/2013 BUILD: 6.3.9600.16384.WINBLUE_RTM.130821-1623 FILE: 9600.16384.130821-1623_x64fre_Client_SingleLanguage_EN-US-IRM_CSLA_DV5.ISO SIZE: 3,838,724,096 byte SHA-1: 10F0288681BF56D22D9ADC58E27BEE2D781E6A1D MD5: 22B42364D905BD6EC9C2F143BC9A8F8E can you guys suggest what is better with this files and the .esd? to clean install my laptop? TIA! -------------------------------------------------- i do a clean install with this iso (MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.8.1.SINGLE.LANGUAGE.RTM.X64.ENGLISH.DVD-WZT) use generic key to install and later on activate with my oem key. i have update all updates on windows update. but im curious about this update .esd file is there any difference between this esd and iso? sorry for my bad english
It's cheaper not to provide a DVD. They all give you an option to backup the Recovery. A lot of systems these days don't even include an optical drive. Just backup to USB. If your recovery is 8.0 & you update to Pro/Update 1/etc you can manually create a backup image that is used to Refresh your PC. From an admin command prompt run: "recimg -CreateImage C:\RefreshImage" Note that if you RESET, it'll revert back to 8.0...
is there any tutorial here how to make bootable usb disk. with this esd file? or i will go on this Instructions:1) extract the 7z file to same directory as esd file 2) run admin command prompt and navigate to the directory 3) run decrypt esdfilename
When you have ESD file you can decrypt to ISO and then use Rufus to create bootable USB.[/QUOTE] thanks sir! I really appreciated!
If you use option 2 or 4, it will put in the generic tokens so that you can activate with wmc key. Keep in mind that if your hardware changes more than 1x per year, you may have to phone activate with "slui 4"
Thank you Murphy, sounds better than installing 8, a bunch of updates, 8.1, a bunch of updates, update one.... you get the picture.
I tried using SW_DVD9_Win_Pro_8.1_64BIT_Brazilian_-2_MLF_X19-49639.iso converted from ESD provided (Option 4). But setup cannot accept J8D3P or 9D6T9 keys! Which one can I use to install?
