Reinstall Win8 and retain the system activation status

Reinstall Win8 and retain the system activation status
Next, let's talk about the specific operation: Step 1: Prepare to restore the media. Extract install. wim from the sources image in Windows 8 to a folder in a partition of the hard disk (cannot be placed in the root directory), for example, to E: \ sources. Of course, if you have an installation disk, simply plug in the installation disc and skip step 2. Step 2: configure the recovery image. In the command prompt that runs as administrator, type the following command and press enter to run the command. Do not discard spaces. Reagentc/setosimage/path E: \ sources/index N
Command explanation: the path after path indicates the path of the folder where the install. wim file is located. The N value after the index indicates the index number of the system to be restored in the wim image file. Run the command "dism/get-wiminfo/wimfile: E: \ sources \ install. you can view E: \ sources \ install. system images contained in wim and their respective index numbers. Make sure that the specified image is consistent with the current system version (the Professional Edition with media center version requires an image with Media Center). Otherwise, the activation information cannot be retained after the reset.
After the operation is successful, run the reagentc/info command to view the recovery image configuration. As shown in: Step 3: start recovery. Turn on the computer settings, as shown in: select general-delete all content and reinstall Windows (start). Then, a prompt is displayed: click "Next ". Select "Windows Drive only". In this way, only the partition where the system is located will be formatted during recovery, and other partition files will not be affected. Select "delete my files only". This option is just a simple format partition, and the initialization process takes a very small amount of time (about 10 minutes ). If we want to transfer the computer to another person, we recommend that you select the second option. In this way, the partition will be erased first during the restoration process to make it difficult to recover the original files in the partition, this takes a long time. Click "initialize". Then the initialization process is automatically restarted. The initialization process takes about 10 minutes. After the restart, the system restarts again. After the restart, You need to perform some hardware driver configurations, user account settings, and other operations. After the configuration is complete, you will enter a new Windows 8 operating environment. After the initialization is complete, go to the desktop and check that the Windows activation status is "activated". Run the reagentc/info command again to find that the configuration information for restoring the image has not changed due to initialization. That is to say, if you want to reinstall the image in the future, you can perform initialization directly (do not delete the install. wim file) without reconfiguration to restore the image. The so-called "one-click" in the title of the article is the truth. Finally, we would like to remind you that after installing Win7/Win8, you must remember to use the activation backup and restoration function of cube optimization master to retain activation information.