![]() ![]() While this is not strictly necessary if you are creating bootable USB, I find having pre-prepared image an useful step. Only thing missing is creating new ISO file that we can burn on DVD. In my case I wanted to specify Professional edition expecting retail key so I created file with following content: Professional Retail 0 Once copy operation has completed, we need to create ei.cfg in C:\Windows81\sources directory. Assuming that you have your DVD at letter W: and that you want staging directory at C:\Windows81, this would be: > ROBOCOPY W:\ C:\Windows81 /MIR … ![]() Very first step is to copy all files from Windows DVD. Only now it requires some preparation first. Thus I was really pissed off when I found that feature was missing in Windows 8. Mind you, I did have keys for that particular version (MSDN subscription is a great thing) but I was regularly too lazy to look key up for a version that would essentially get installed and deleted within a day. More than once I also used this feature to reproduce a bug in different OS language (e.g. Only once I was perfectly satisfied with machine, I would activate it. I found this really useful during setup of a new machine when I would have multiple reinstalls while trying out various drivers and performing their troubleshooting. Instead of entering 25-digit key, you could just select skip and Windows would give you 30 days after install to setup everything before requiring valid product key. One great feature Windows 7 was possibility to install them without needing a key.
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