jchowland Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 (edited) Hi Everyone,Just downloaded The Vista SP1 Disc off Technet and I'm having trouble installing it with the 'ol $OEM$ Dell Pre-Activation. As I understand it, I just have to add the $OEM$ Folder from my Sources folder on my original Dell Disc to the sources folder on the new disc and it should work.However, when I go to install it on the PC, it asks for my version of vista and product key (which it shouldn't do).Is there any other folder that I need to copy apart from \Sources\$OEM$, or doesn't this work with SP1? Just on a side note, does this $OEM$ folder have unattended installation info in it- would it be \SOURCES\$OEM$\$$\SETUP\SCRIPTS\DELL.XML? There isn't an autounattend.xml in the sources folder yet it is unattended (insofar as product key and version)My apologies that this is probably a double post- I had a quick search for pre-activation but couldn't see it. Edited February 22, 2008 by jchowland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAVERICKS CHOICE Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 (edited) I have the xml residing in\Vista\sources\$OEM$\$$\SYSTEM32\OEMI do however run a separate ans file to fully unattend the install. Edited February 22, 2008 by MAVERICKS CHOICE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchowland Posted February 22, 2008 Author Share Posted February 22, 2008 I have the xml residing in\Vista\sources\$OEM$\$$\SYSTEM32\OEMI do however run a separate ans file to fully unattend the install.Does this mean that I can ALSO put in an autounattend.xml in the sources folder and the two will co-exist?And have you been able to keep the OEM information with an SP1 DVD (if you have it?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAVERICKS CHOICE Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 I have the xml residing in\Vista\sources\$OEM$\$$\SYSTEM32\OEMI do however run a separate ans file to fully unattend the install.Does this mean that I can ALSO put in an autounattend.xml in the sources folder and the two will co-exist?And have you been able to keep the OEM information with an SP1 DVD (if you have it?)Your DELL.XML needs to reside in:\Vista\sources\$OEM$\$$\SYSTEM32\OEMIf you are running an install from a DVD etc. you will need your ans file in both the root & the sources dir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchowland Posted February 27, 2008 Author Share Posted February 27, 2008 I'm still not able to get the $OEM$ to correctly activate- have you been able to do it with a SP1 disc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phorze Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 I have the same problem, using the official version with SP1 integrated (technet)and trying to transfer the OEM to it for my laptop.looks like the $OEM$ folder trick doesn't work anymore trying to turn it into an OEM DVD. If they don't want me to do it they should have supplied a proper vista dvd with my laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchowland Posted March 5, 2008 Author Share Posted March 5, 2008 Yes, one would think that this would be one of the FIRST things that MS would want to keep- It is, after all, its own activation model!I am going to try just using vLite to create the unattended settings and just hope that the XRM-MS file transfers... Otherwise it could end up being a first run item with slmgr.I'll post my results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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