Creating a Windows 8 AIO with Media Center manually

How to Create a Windows 8 AIO with media center

Download and install The Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) Here

Uncheck all boxes apart from deployment tools, install deployment tools only



Create folder on your c drive and name it win8aio

Then create 6 subfolders inside win8aio folder and name them as follows: win8, x86, x64, entx86, entx64, mount.



Next extract your windows 8 32bit iso to the win8 folder then move the install.wim from win8\sources to the x86 folder

extract your windows 8 64bit install.wim to the x64 folder

extract your windows 8 Enterprise 32bit install.wim to entx86 folder

extract your windows 8 Enterprise 64bit install.wim to entx64 folder

Then open Deployment and imaging tools CMD as administrator and enter the following command 1 at a time

Code:

Dism /Export-Image /SourceImageFile:c:\win8aio\x86\install.wim /SourceIndex:2 /DestinationImageFile:c:\win8aio\win8\sources\install.wim /DestinationName:"Windows 8" /compress:maximum

Dism /Export-Image /SourceImageFile:c:\win8aio\x86\install.wim /SourceIndex:1 /DestinationImageFile:c:\win8aio\win8\sources\install.wim /DestinationName:"Windows 8 Pro" /compress:maximum

Dism /Export-Image /SourceImageFile:c:\win8aio\x86\install.wim /SourceIndex:1 /DestinationImageFile:c:\win8aio\win8\sources\install.wim /DestinationName:"Windows 8 Pro with Media Center" /compress:maximum

Dism /Export-Image /SourceImageFile:c:\win8aio\entx86\install.wim /SourceIndex:1 /DestinationImageFile:c:\win8aio\win8\sources\install.wim /DestinationName:"Windows 8 Enterprise" /compress:maximum

Dism /Export-Image /SourceImageFile:c:\win8aio\x64\install.wim /SourceIndex:2 /DestinationImageFile:c:\win8aio\win8\sources\install.wim /DestinationName:"Windows 8" /compress:maximum

Dism /Export-Image /SourceImageFile:c:\win8aio\x64\install.wim /SourceIndex:1 /DestinationImageFile:c:\win8aio\win8\sources\install.wim /DestinationName:"Windows 8 Pro" /compress:maximum

Dism /Export-Image /SourceImageFile:c:\win8aio\x64\install.wim /SourceIndex:1 /DestinationImageFile:c:\win8aio\win8\sources\install.wim /DestinationName:"Windows 8 Pro with Media Center" /compress:maximum

Dism /Export-Image /SourceImageFile:c:\win8aio\entx64\install.wim /SourceIndex:1 /DestinationImageFile:c:\win8aio\win8\sources\install.wim /DestinationName:"Windows 8 Enterprise" /compress:maximum

Next step to convert to ProfessionalWMC

Code:

Dism /mount-wim /wimfile:C:\win8aio\win8\sources\install.wim /index:3 /mountdir:C:\win8aio\mount

Dism /Image:C:\win8aio\mount /Get-TargetEditions

Dism /Image:C:\win8aio\mount /Set-Edition:ProfessionalWMC

Dism /unmount-wim /mountdir:C:\win8aio\mount /commit

imagex /flags "ProfessionalWMC" /info C:\win8aio\win8\sources\install.wim 3 "Windows 8 Pro with Media Center" "Windows 8 Pro with Media Center"

Dism /mount-wim /wimfile:C:\win8aio\win8\sources\install.wim /index:7 /mountdir:C:\win8aio\mount

Dism /Image:C:\win8aio\mount /Get-TargetEditions

Dism /Image:C:\win8aio\mount /Set-Edition:ProfessionalWMC

Dism /unmount-wim /mountdir:C:\win8aio\mount /commit

imagex /flags "ProfessionalWMC" /info C:\win8aio\win8\sources\install.wim 7 "Windows 8 Pro with Media Center " "Windows 8 Pro with Media Center"

Next you will need to create an Ei.CFG file, Copy and paste the following into notepad and save as Ei.CFG

Code:

[Channel]

Retail

[VL]

0

and place file in sources folder C:\win8aio\win8\sources
EI.cfg Will allow you to install any of the editions without having to enter a product key first

Now all you need to do is create bootable iso, open the Deployment and imaging tools command prompt as administrator and enter the following command

Code:

oscdimg -bC:\win8aio\win8\boot\etfsboot.com -h -u2 -m -lwin8_aio C:\win8aio\win8\ C:\win8aio.iso

Create a Windows 8 Pro with media center iso only

Download and install The Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) Here

Uncheck all boxes apart from deployment tools, install deployment tools only

Create folder on your c drive and name it win8

Then create 3 subfolders inside the win8 folder and name them as follows: iso, wim, mount.



Next extract your windows 8 iso to the iso folder C:\win8\iso Then move the install.wim from C:\win8\iso\sources to the wim folder C:\win8\wim

Then open Deployment and imaging tools CMD as administrator and enter the following command 1 at a time

Code:

Dism /mount-wim /wimfile:C:\win8\wim\install.wim /index:1 /mountdir:C:\win8\mount

Dism /Image:C:\win8\mount /Get-TargetEditions

Dism /Image:C:\win8\mount /Set-Edition:ProfessionalWMC

Keeping the image mounted and viewing hidden files and folders take ownership of the data.dat file and then delete it in C:\win8\mount\Windows\System32\spp\store\data.dat

and replace with data.dat

Optional

Before committing changes to the image you can enter your free wmc key via dism command this will install your key and activate only on the machine you intend to use

Code:

Dism /Image:C:\win8\mount /Set-ProductKey:xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx

Code:

Dism /unmount-wim /mountdir:C:\win8\mount /commit

imagex /flags "ProfessionalWMC" /info C:\win8\wim\install.wim 1 "Windows 8 Pro with Media Center" "Windows 8 Pro with Media Center"

Dism /Export-Image /SourceImageFile:c:\win8\wim\install.wim /SourceIndex:1 /DestinationImageFile:c:\win8\iso\sources\install.wim /compress:maximum

Next you will need to create an Ei.CFG file, Copy and paste the following into notepad and save as Ei.CFG

Code:

[EditionID]

ProfessionalWMC

[Channel]

Retail

[VL]

0

and place file in sources folder C:\win8\iso\sources
EI.cfg Will allow you to install any of the editions without having to enter a product key first

Next to create bootable iso, open the Deployment and imaging tools command prompt as administrator and enter the following command

Code:

oscdimg -bC:\win8\iso\boot\etfsboot.com -h -u2 -m -lWIN8-PRO-WMC C:\win8\iso C:\win8\ProWMC.iso

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