Tips for restoring android+win10 from official images

[E]

Hi Laura, what happened with your Windows product key when you did this? Did Windows 10 home activate fine automatically or have you managed to find a proper key?

[Laura]

my unit does not have a product key. simple as that. somebody (gearbest? or the supplier?) put on some dubious 10 pro version preactivated in some way (MAK) which i suspect to be not legit

[E]

OK, good to know. Mine from the Gearbest sale should arrive this week so I guess I’ll probably be in the same boat. Did you contact Gearbest about that or start a Paypal dispute?

[Laura]

i contacted them. they say to wait 2 days for them to come up with a solution. hardly believe they will provide a legit key but we’ll see. i guess we will have to get a legit license on our own

[Abady]

Hi guys,

So I just had to struggle with this today and got me frustrated! I created an image with clonezilla a couple of days ago and formatted the drive, however it didn’t go as planned so I restored the clonezilla image and it screwed up the android partition, it wouldn’t boot! I could go to the recovery and wipe data and factory reset and it still won’t boot. So I decided to just reflash the tablet.

I followed the steps I gathered from here, the word document, and @Daan’s post as much as I can get out of them, However I still get an error when attempting to install windows, and every time it does it screws up the USB2 stick, only to find out by checking out the chinese word document that also the USB2 stick HAS TO BE labeled “WINPE”.

Once I made sure both USB sticks are labeled “WINPE” it worked flawlessly.

[Laura]

check out my thread of how-tos. you will find modified boot.img that can make your clonezilla backup boot android again.

however, the android rom seems to be basically the same between i15-TD and i15-TL so if you’re up and running with that you should be ok. the windows image from i15-TD instead is not really suitable for i15-TL

[Abady]

Yeah I just saw that, great work.

Both android and windows are now up and running thankfully, I have the i15-TD version BTW.

[Testcik]

Now that is something I didn’t think of while attempting to restore Windows. What to do if I have the i15-TL with no backup of the drives. I don’t really care about the activation. Just having the factory way of Windows with the drivers and configuration, as well as the switching system application.

[Laura]

you can find the drivers in the how-tos post. as for the switching application, you can extract it from cube’s install.wim, from the Recovery directory, using something like Dism Gui to easily mount the .wim file

[Testcik]

Are there any differences in images other than the Windows version and it’s activation?

[Laura]

when using the i15-td image on i15-tl the accelerometer doesn’t work (but you can fix that with the procedure i described in the how to) and the microsoft MMC console (ie device manager) gives a weird error when opening and the event viewer does not work. there are possibly more issues, but i didn’t try that long cause i figured it’d be best for me to reinstall my own windows

[stasia8954]

Any video tutorial for this?

[stasia8954]

Hi guys, So I just had to struggle with this today and got me frustrated! I created an image with clonezilla a couple of days ago and formatted the drive, however it didn’t go as planned so I restored the clonezilla image and it screwed up the android partition, it wouldn’t boot! I could go to the recovery and wipe data and factory reset and it still won’t boot. So I decided to just reflash the tablet. I followed the steps I gathered from here, the word document, and @Daan’s post as much as I can get out of them, However I still get an error when attempting to install windows, and every time it does it screws up the USB2 stick, only to find out by checking out the chinese word document that also the USB2 stick HAS TO BE labeled “WINPE”. Once I made sure both USB sticks are labeled “WINPE” it worked flawlessly.

 

well, thanks for the usefully tip. it took  me hours on finding an answer for this question.

[Jake]

https://mega.co.nz/#!VUdHFR5Z!GYsJMyJlOoIZ0f7bOELXw1ZChkeYE-YT1P6HA91x5Yo
vb script for window product key viewing and save

or put these code into notpad then save it as *.vbs

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Option Explicit

Dim objshell,path,DigitalID, Result
Set objshell = CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
‘Set registry key path
Path = “HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\”
‘Registry key value
DigitalID = objshell.RegRead(Path & “DigitalProductId”)
Dim ProductName,ProductID,ProductKey,ProductData
‘Get ProductName, ProductID, ProductKey
ProductName = “Product Name: ” & objshell.RegRead(Path & “ProductName”)
ProductID = “Product ID: ” & objshell.RegRead(Path & “ProductID”)
ProductKey = “Installed Key: ” & ConvertToKey(DigitalID)
ProductData = ProductName  & vbNewLine & ProductID  & vbNewLine & ProductKey
‘Show messbox if save to a file
If vbYes = MsgBox(ProductData  & vblf & vblf & “Save to a file?”, vbYesNo + vbQuestion, “BackUp Windows Key Information”) then
Save ProductData
End If

‘Convert binary to chars
Function ConvertToKey(Key)
Const KeyOffset = 52
Dim isWin8, Maps, i, j, Current, KeyOutput, Last, keypart1, insert
‘Check if OS is Windows 8
isWin8 = (Key(66) \ 6) And 1
Key(66) = (Key(66) And &HF7) Or ((isWin8 And 2) * 4)
i = 24
Maps = “BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789”
Do
Current= 0
j = 14
Do
Current = Current* 256
Current = Key(j + KeyOffset) + Current
Key(j + KeyOffset) = (Current \ 24)
Current=Current Mod 24
j = j -1
Loop While j >= 0
i = i -1
KeyOutput = Mid(Maps,Current+ 1, 1) & KeyOutput
Last = Current
Loop While i >= 0
keypart1 = Mid(KeyOutput, 2, Last)
insert = “N”
KeyOutput = Replace(KeyOutput, keypart1, keypart1 & insert, 2, 1, 0)
If Last = 0 Then KeyOutput = insert & KeyOutput
ConvertToKey = Mid(KeyOutput, 1, 5) & “-” & Mid(KeyOutput, 6, 5) & “-” & Mid(KeyOutput, 11, 5) & “-” & Mid(KeyOutput, 16, 5) & “-” & Mid(KeyOutput, 21, 5)

End Function
‘Save data to a file
Function Save(Data)
Dim fso, fName, txt,objshell,UserName
Set objshell = CreateObject(“wscript.shell”)
‘Get current user name
UserName = objshell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings(“%UserName%”)
‘Create a text file on desktop
fName = “C:\Users\” & UserName & “\Desktop\WindowsKeyInfo.txt”
Set fso = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)
Set txt = fso.CreateTextFile(fName)
txt.Writeline Data
txt.Close
End Function

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[rinaldo]

pls help. i’m lost…

i have flashed android with success (thanks to laura suggestions abt chinese charecters).

Now i have a problem. usb1(fat 32) and usb2(NTFS) are connected.

In BIOS i changed  advanced/system component/OS IMAGE ID from Android to windows

and in Boot/boot option priorities  to my USB1 (i have not changed FIXED BOOT ORDER priorities) do I have (but i do not see USB1)

save and exit (step 1)… tablet start to install

It works perfectly on USB1 but when i type exit on the command prompt  it returns back to android like windows have never been installed.

the winpe USB2 is not used for the installation….

i have noticed that after this usb1 is like damaged (not read by pcs and to be reformatted in FAT32).

COuld you pls help?

what i’m missing? Im lost

how i can enter   the setup (see picture)  and how i can proceed?

 

 

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