I installed 7989 on my Sony Vaio and I noticed in the Computer properties page that the oem information was in fact set to a Hewlett Packard Business Notebook. I changed it to my liking in the registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OEMInformation Did anyone else notice this? PS: There was also a file in my C:\ directory called "OSBOM.txt" This was some of the text inside of this file... System Information report written at: 05/17/11 23:08:54 System Name: WIN-KH0OJCNHJ3H [System Summary] ItemValue OS NameMicrosoft Windows 7 Ultimate Version6.2.7989 Build 7989 Other OS Description Not Available OS ManufacturerMicrosoft Corporation System NameWIN-KH0OJCNHJ3H System ManufacturerHewlett-Packard System ModelHP ProBook 6555b System Typex64-based PC ProcessorAMD Phenom(tm) II N830 Triple-Core Processor, 2100 Mhz, 3 Core(s), 3 Logical Processor(s) BIOS Version/DateHewlett-Packard 68DTM Ver. B.41, 7/9/2010 SMBIOS Version2.6 Windows DirectoryC:\Windows System DirectoryC:\Windows\system32 Boot Device\Device\HarddiskVolume1 LocaleUnited States Hardware Abstraction LayerVersion = "6.2.7989.0" User NameWIN-KH0OJCNHJ3H\Administrator Time ZonePacific Daylight Time Installed Physical Memory (RAM)2.00 GB Total Physical Memory1.74 GB Available Physical Memory1.33 GB Total Virtual Memory3.48 GB Available Virtual Memory3.02 GB Page File Space1.74 GB Page FileC:\pagefile.sys Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode ExtensionsYes Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation ExtensionsYes Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in FirmwareNo Hyper-V - Data Execution ProtectionYes
So here is a quick question, how are they able to make an installation image using the file from their drive...
Or you could use EasyBCD to add a ISO entry in bios ^^, allows you to install your windows from your own hard disk (i do not recommend installing this sh*t leak on a hdd)
no i mean how to they (HP/Microsoft) make a Windows 8 installation image or a .wim file from their hard disk...?
OEM "images" are made by OEMs by installing Windows 7, 8 etc, customising it on a copy of the machine they are distributing it with, and then imaging it from the HDDs for the repair/restore disc
Using Imagex.exe. If the PC containing the Win8 installation is booted from a WINPE CD or from a different windows installation on the same machine but not on drive C: in the example given, the install.wim is created using the following command or similar. Code: imagex /capture c: n:\wim\install.wim "win8" /verify This captures and verifies an image of drive c: to drive n:\wim\install.wim (This could be a network share for instance). Takes about 30 min for me. You can also dispense with the installation dvd.iso file and use imagex to directly apply the image to either a formatted vhd or a fresh formatted partition. The syntax is: Code: imagex /apply n:\wim\install.wim 1 c: The command applies the image number 1 in the install.wim in that location to the c: drive of the target machine. If you have an installation DVD already in the D: drive, you can use: Code: imagex /apply d:\sources\install.wim 1 c: It takes less than 10 minutes and then following a couple of reboots, you get to the localization, OOBE login and PKID screens - up and running in about 30 minutes from issuing the imagex /apply command (Acer Aspire 7520 AMD 64 Athlon X2 TK57 1.90GHz 2.25GB RAM )