I don't recall that, Mostly Legacy Bios only but one thing for sure I was on MBR partition scheme because by that time I wasn't even aware about GPT and didn't actually understand UEFI
Nope, with the original ISO no-one will get the chance to enter a key, as the key is predifined in that pid.txt (check in the ISOs source folder to see). Normally the multiple-edition ISOs aren#t shipped with any pid.txt or ei.cfg file. They only did with the Preview ISO to assure one is installing the right version .
Now I understand the situation. Which leaves me scratching my head and wondering why the heck did MS go to the trouble of providing us with a key in the first place, if we don't need one?
Got it, and I thank you profusely for allowing me to learn something new today!! I now have a better insight into how MS does things..
I thought that so to provide a new "Learning Curve" add the PID.txt instead of adding or changing ei.cfg I think the key is easier...
Because this Preview is intended for IT Pros and enterprises, who mostly deploy systems manually by DISM like we are currently doing Windows SIM ImageX Unattended installs Windows Deployment Services System Center suites etc Before switching to OOBE, a manually deployed install will ask a key regardless
On my way to the Command prompt Installation: have reached till: set id="27" successfully But on the command: attributes volume set nodefaultdriveletter I'm getting this error which says: Virtual Disk Service error: The object is not found. What does this mean, how do i proceed further, please suggest on this.
Ignore/skip it. I checked some resources, and concluded it is not needed. You can see it is no more in my original post. As for MBR this attributes setting only can be applied to the whole disk, not individual volumes.
Now on command: DISKPART> assign letter="C" i'm getting error which says: Virtual Disk Service error: The specified drive letter is not free to be assigned. Can I assign any other letter here...and I understand if I do such the same drive letter I shall use in commands like dism. Update: I noticed that my Sandisk Drive having Win8.1 bootable is assigned letter "C" can i change this and then get c applied for the other partition i created earlier.
cool I reached this command: dism /apply-image /imagefile:E:sources\install.wim /index:1 /ApplyDir:C:\ Deployment In process: says: Applying image [================ 40.0% ]
Yes, hope the below was done. Have a feeling that yes, because you cannot dism apply image to a folder that is not empty DISM would error you out instead of proceeding applying the source to target applydir
yes I applied W only but this code I simply copy pasted from the arseny list of commands Besides, I have reached to the last command: shutdown -r -f -t 00 But I'm getting error which says: 'shutdown' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
We're actually done, this command is just sort of a clean shutdown, however that is optional when in PE. Close command prompt, close Setup on top right, confirm exiting and simply reboot to disk 0. It shall proceed with configuring devices, then ask you to enter the product key, accept the EULA, and proceed to OOBE.
Ohh nice I would do that, But before doing that I would like to copy the entire thing which is available in my current cmd prompt in order to use it as a reference next time and also to share with u all, if I had done something wrong in that... please suggest a way for this. i could take a pic using my mobile but text version would be awesome
Open notepad from that same command prompt, then right click in the command prompt, select Mark, then just copy-paste your output into notepad, then simply save it as text file to one of your USBs