Hi Everyone, I have a piece of test equipment with a custom built PC that controls it running Windows Standard Embedded 7. I frequently have to run SFC /SCANNOW to fix errors and it's getting worse. I do not have a copy of the system image or ability to create a restore stick. Only thing that's been successful so far is getting the correct OEM Key from the OS. After a bunch of internet searching and reading I've come to two thoughts. First is to try and create a USB restore drive as I do have a copy of Win7 Ultimate x64 as an ISO. Problem is I haven't done it in a while and all I seem to be able to create is a non-bootable install. I have set the BIOS to try to boot from the USB first but it never does. The other idea is to just install W7Ux64 but I don't know if that will be successful or not. I've also thought about trying to use the MS tools and try to extract/create the existing WSE7 image but I have no experience in that area. Any advice or suggestions?
Do you have all the drivers and software for this machine? If you have, you can Re-install the O.S following the same components that you have in your actual system. To know what component you have in WES7, you can use DISM to discover (dism /online /get-packages /format:table > C:\packages.txt) And just install WES7 following the results of the TXT file... You alternatively can install the minimum configuration and add the packages after with DISM (DISM /Online /Add-Package /PackagePath) I hope I could help you with this in some way... Have a nice Sunday
Thanks for the reply, doesn't sound as involved as I thought. I would need to find one application first. It's so a peripheral device can be controlled. There is also a touch screen panel I need to find software/drivers for. Everything else should be straight forward. It would be so much easier to just ditch embedded and install Win10.