37d6e8c88a When you select the version and hit next, installation will occur from the USB! 9. m 0 l r00tb33r 14 January 2015 07:00:41 LucoTF said:You're just some kid, aren't you? I thought you were the kid. The OEM installed OS looks for the SLIC table and if its found and matches a corresponding certificate file Activation is automatic. Every DELL model XYZ will have the same OEM-SLP product code and that code is blocked from online activation. Not an SLIC cert like W7, there is no SLIC with Win8 - just your actual product key. When you get to the similar portion of the install, you get a subtle difference in the screen with the partition choices: Instead of just partition by number, you get the actual logical volume as well! Thus, for example, I was able to install Vista on E: and Win7 on F:, etc.When you do this with 8.1, from the install disk you get the same problematic choices [that will be "off by one"] but if you run the setup.exe, it works a bit differently:Instead of it asking you to choose, it instead does an automatic upgrade of the partition you are/were booted to; the old O/S is gone [and the files saved in Windows.old.However, it is otherwise properly behaving in the logical drive letters sense.
You are not given any opportunity to override this. UEFI & Secure Boot UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is a protocol that has also been around for several years, but with the release of Windows 8, carried the increased "security" of Secure Boot, which prevents unsigned bootable media from interfacing with the OS, hardware, or firmware. You can refer to this, however - straight from the horse's mouth - for help in setting up your GPT partition: Sample: Configure UEFI/GPT-Based Hard Drive Partitions by Using Windows PE and DiskPart I hope this helps!Click to expand. This workaround defies all logic and sensibility, but it is the only way I could figure out how to install Windows 8 Pro over the Asus S56 Windows 8 Standard OEM. It doesn't work unless you are actually WANTING to use drive C: [Only one can get that "honor".]Now all that said, Windows 8,1 will not cooperate AFAIK but if you also install a "sacrificial" system on the partition where you intend to put 8.1, then boot that partition and then run setup.exe from the installation media for 8.1, it will "upgrade" the partition to a complete 8.1 install with the old files in windows.old directory, etc.Thus, it does get the job done, but it needs that time-wasteful step. One of the tricks used to pirate Windows was to add a SLIC table to a PC's BIOS so you could fake OEM-SLP activation. Let us know how your experimentation fares. Perfect, Nov 26, 2012 Mr. ballistic90, Nov 26, 2012 ballistic90, Nov 26, 2012 #2 Nov 26, 2012 #3 wonderfield [H]ardness Supreme Messages: 7,426 Joined: Dec 12, 2011 To my knowledge, the OEM license does not allow for such hardware changes anyway. Don't reply to to spammers, no matter how legit it may look.
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