Sunday, 8 January 2017

how to make your windows tablet such as lenovo miix 2 8 dictects bootable usb

Most of you guys have lost hope on reinstalling your windows on most tablets and most of you have gone through a lot trying to solve this problem but yet nothing, mostly when you mistakenly delete your recovery and boot partitions,











Like me i,ve seen a computer engineer who have them about 16 pieces in his workshop laying dead on his table and he said the point here is that he don't know if the memory is dead or still working but all he knows is that they are no solutions for them.

The main point of its is that it wont even dictect any USB or any bootable device.

So here is the thing this is what you'll need to do.
I will be a kind of slow on posting this cause my pc is a kind of having keyboard problem this morning or add me up on facebook on colins raymond ajahz or just keep checking back i'll post all the process I used in solving my lenovo Miix 2 8 and now it works perfectly and thanks to me fo finding the problem my self and no I wants to share my idea with you all. Am still updating them just refres please........

1. get a Windows 8.1 bootable disk and this is what will need to consider before geting a bootable window for tablet. Make you you explore the windows 8.1 pro to see if it's ment to boot o your device and this what the windows 8.1 pro the will boot on your device should have, :\efi\boot\bootia32.efi not :\efi\boot\bootx64.efi or if won't work for your tablet at all cause your tablet if designed for only 32 bit and that the archtecture of your lenovo Miix 2 8 and dell venue 8 etc.


2. Get and otg cable that will be use as a USB port for your tablet

3. Get a keyboard that wil help you in your installation and mouse as well.

4. a multi-usb port to help you in connectin both your USB drive, keyboard and mouse at the same time.

5. Make sure your tablet is fully charged.

Now we're ready to start the installation, but before th let me tell yo the main reason why lenovo Miix 2 8 won't dictact a bootable UEFI windows iso while trying to boot it into the tablet, it's because it is only designed to boot 32bit efi iso so the only file it sees is the bootia32.efi and more bootable disk you guys buy for windows 8.1 pro is 2 in 1 disk made with both 32bit and 64bit and comes with bootx64.efi it won't dictate on most tablets and windows, and it's the same reas why windows 7 won't install on UEFI mode cause windows 7 don't have the efi boot files to verifer the operating system.

Now you can carry on and start your installation which you all know how to so move on to your installation and please take note that you might have a problem on start in connecting it but this the cause, the multi-usb port is skipping the drive so remove the multi-usb port that was connected to th otg cord so remove and connect the drive direct to your otg cord

Tuesday, 18 October 2016

How To Prepare Windows 8.1 Drivers Unattended USB

What you need
Windows 8.1 DVD or ISO (e.g. en_windows_8_1_enterprise_x86_dvd_2972289.iso)
An AutoUnattend.xml file - use mine: View attachment AutoUnattend.zip
Dell Venue 8 Pro Win 8.1 Driver Cab - 5830-win8.1-A00-9Y5Y5.CAB
Intel Platform Driver Installer -5830_Drivers-for-OS-Deployment_Driver_3VR67_WN_603.9600.2067.26305_A03.EXE
A 4+ GB USB drive
A micro-USB OTG cable to connect your USB drive to the DV8P
Create the following folder structure
C:\DV8PWin
C:\DV8PWin\Drivers
C:\DV8PWin\Image
C:\DV8PWin\Temp
C:\DV8PWin\USB
Copy the Windows Files
Copy the contents of your windows DVD/ISO to the C:\DV8PWin\USB directory.
You should have a boot, efi, sources, and support directory as well as bootmgr, setup, and some other assorted files.
Prepare the Drivers
Extract 5830-win8.1-A00-9Y5Y5.CAB with Winzip/WinRar/CabArc/etc. to C:\DV8PWin\Temp
Navigate to C:\DV8PWin\Temp\5830-win8.1-A00-9Y5Y5\5830\win8.1\x86
Cut and Paste the 'chipset' and 'network' folders into C:\DV8PWin\Drivers
Open C:\DV8PWin\Drivers\network\379GH_A00-00\production\Windows8.1-x86\Bluetooth-Driver\qcbtuart.infin your favorite text editor:
Find the section entitled[SourceDisksFiles] and remove all entries except:
qcbtuart.sys = 1,,
qcbtctrl.dll = 1,,​
Find the section entiled[BTUART.Files] and remove all entries except:
qcbtuart.sys​
*This step is required since the .INF file lists driver files that are not needed/present and therefore must be removed.
Run 5830_Drivers-for-OS-Deployment_Driver_3VR67_WN_603.9600.2067.26305_A03.exe and choose "Extract without installing" to C:\DV8PWin\Temp
Navigate to C:\DV8PWin\Temp\Drivers and copy the "Audio" and "WCE" directories to C:\DV8PWin\Drivers
Mount the Image
Open an Administrative Command Prompt (i.e. Run As Administrator)
Mount the Windows 8.1 .wim Image with Dism:
dism.exe /Mount-WIM /WimFile:"C:\DV8PWin\USB\sources\install.wim" /index:1 /MountDir:"C:\DV8PWin\Image"
Import the Drivers
Import the drivers into the image:
dism.exe/image:"C:\DV8PWin\Image" /Add-Driver /driver:"C:\DV8PWin\Drivers" /recurse /forceunsigned
*There should be 57 drivers that import. If 57 did not import you should review the "Prepare the image and drivers" section above.
Enable additional packages (optional)
You can enable additional packages within the Windows installation so that they are automatically installed.
I would highly recommend enabling .NET Framework 3.5 as it is needed by many applications (and 4.5 is not backwards compatible):
dism /image:c:\dv8pwin\image /enable-feature /featurename:netfx3 /all /source:c:\DV8PWin\USB\sources\sxs
I also prefer to have the telnet client enabled by default:
dism /image:c:\dv8pwin\image /enable-feature /featurename:telnetclient /all
Dismount the Image
Dismount the image saving the changes:
dism.exe /Unmount-wim /mountdir:"C:\DV8PWin\Image" /commit
Modify the AutoUnattend.XML
The AutoUnattend.XML is crafted with only a few options, including:
Create partitions
Assign License Key
Set Registered User/Organization
Set Computer Name
Extract the AutoUnattend.zip file attached above
Open AutoUnattend.xml in your favorite text editor (e.g. notepad)
I would highly recommend you only modify the following section:
HTML:
    <settings pass="specialize">
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <ProductKey>MHF9N-XY6XB-WVXMC-BTDCT-MKKG7</ProductKey>
            <RegisteredOrganization>Registered Organization</RegisteredOrganization>
            <RegisteredOwner>Registered User</RegisteredOwner>
            <ComputerName>MYDV8P</ComputerName>
        </component>
    </settings>
You can replace your product key with the one listed (default Volume License Key). The key I have provided is enough to install Windows, but it will not activate until you provide a valid key.
You should replace RegisteredOrganization, RegisteredOwner, and ComputerName with your own values. If you would rather not set them here, simply delete the appropriate lines.
Save the file and place in the root of c:\DV8PWin\USB\
Prepare the USB Drive
Insert your USB drive into the staging computer
Run diskpart (from your Administrative Command Prompt)
Run "list disk" to identify which disk is your USB (determine based on size)
Run "select disk x" where x is the number of your USB disk (e.g. "select disk 1")
Run the following commands:
clean
create part pri
format fs=fat32 label="DV8PWin" quick
active
assign
exit​
Copy the contents of C:\DV8PWin\USB to your prepared USB drive:
xcopy C:\DV8PWin\USB F: /e /c /i /f /h /k /j
(where F: is the drive letter of your USB drive)
Installing Windows
Power off your DV8P
Enter BIOS by powering on your DV8P and holding the Volume button down for 3-5 seconds
In BIOS tap "Boot"
Tap "Boot Option #1" and select the USB key
Tap on the keyboard icon in the top right
Tap F10
Tap Yes to Save configuration and restart
Your DV8P should now boot from the USB key and perform an unattended installation of Windows 8.1 Enterprise.
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