2nd Install attempt

Well decided to try to install Win10 on a ThinkCentre I5, 8Gb ram
usually "business" small form factor pc. First attempt doing the
"upgrade" online route ended with reboots back into Win7 so this time I
tried the USB boot approach.

It worked. Took me going thru stack of old Win7 keys before one was
accepted and system got activated and a second hiccup when the network
all seemed up and running except couldn't see other Win7 pcs when
browsing network. Both now fixed so time to explore LOL

I have no idea what version MediaCreationTool downloaded. Where's that
kept?

pjp wrote:
Well decided to try to install Win10 on a ThinkCentre I5, 8Gb ram
usually "business" small form factor pc. First attempt doing the
"upgrade" online route ended with reboots back into Win7 so this time I
tried the USB boot approach.

It worked. Took me going thru stack of old Win7 keys before one was
accepted and system got activated and a second hiccup when the network
all seemed up and running except couldn't see other Win7 pcs when
browsing network. Both now fixed so time to explore LOL

I have no idea what version MediaCreationTool downloaded. Where's that
kept?

This is why we have Agent Ransack :-)

https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/?page=download

Normally, download files go into your Downloads folder.
Unless you changed the setting in the browser you were using
at the time or something.

Paul

On Sun, 1 Sep 2019 01:46:14 -0300, pjp
wrote:

I have no idea what version MediaCreationTool downloaded. Where's that
kept?

Downloaded or installed? To see what got installed, use 'winver' from a
command prompt.

Char Jackson wrote:
On Sun, 1 Sep 2019 01:46:14 -0300, pjp
wrote:

I have no idea what version MediaCreationTool downloaded. Where's that
kept?

Downloaded or installed? To see what got installed, use 'winver' from a
command prompt.



If your Technician Machine is Windows 10, you can "sniff" a DVD or
an ISO file, with this. Win10 has an ISO mounter available in
File Explorer, so you can mount an ISO as a virtual DVD drive
and do this test. Here, the assumption is that the virtual or
physical drive is drive D: . Change drive letter to suit.

dism /Get-WimInfo /WimFile:\sources\install.wim /index:1
dism /Get-WimInfo /WimFile:\sources\install.esd /index:1

If the Technician Machine is Windows 7, that command does not
work reliably. It does not grok "ESD". And guess which extension
a MediaCreationTool DVD uses... Thus the warning.

If you use 7ZIP, open the ISO file (or the DVD) and
navigate to Sources and select the install.wim or install.esd,
inside the WIM are folders and an XML file. The XML file,
if you choose to extract it, contains a manifest of what
is on the DVD. That's what I normally use here, as 7ZIP
works on even WinXP. That means there are no practical
limits on Technician Machine version.

If that's too hard to do, there is also wimlib. But being
third party, I would consider this as reliable as Windows 7,
in that if Microsoft changes the format again, only a
Windows 10 era DISM will understand.

This is a portable program and just needs to be
staged in a directory somewhere.

https://wimlib.net/

# wimlib v1.13.1 Windows binaries (32-bit)

https://wimlib.net/downloads/wimlib-...s-i686-bin.zip

# wimlib v1.13.1 Windows binaries (64-bit) === useful for your machines

https://wimlib.net/downloads/wimlib-...x86_64-bin.zip

Inside the file, you will find

wimlib-15.dll
wimlib-imagex.exe

You can copy those out of the ZIP download, to your downloads folder.

cd %userprofile%\Downloads

wimlib-imagex info D:\sources\install.esd

and that will dump some manifest info. For example, if
you see 18362 in there, that means the DVD is for 1903.

Paul