Nov 8, 2018 - First, create a UEFI bootable USB flash drive that can boot and run the Windows 8.1 installer. Download or use an existing Windows 8.1 (x86-32 Bit) Install DVD ISO file. Download the 'Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool.' Place the USB key in one of the local system USB ports. Run the DVD tool as administrator.
I can't for the life of me figure out how to boot to USB. I can enter the BIOS and turn off secure boot and set my USB flash drive as the first bootable device but I can't get it to boot. The boot menu shows my flash drive as UEFI (flash drive name). I think that may be the problem because I cannot find any option to enable legacy boot.
Is there a way to disable UEFI boot and is there a way to boot any bootable flash drives that work in other systems? If this is limited to UEFI boot and does not support 64bit, how on earth do you make a PE4.0 32bit support UEFI boot? Thanks for any help you can give me, Dave.
I have to agree with Jason, I think your going to find it's Windows 8 32bit only. I'm unaware of any way to launch Ubuntu in 32bit UEFI and even if you could I have a feeling the Atom is made for Windows only. I was able to find a third party program that can boot the system but only because it uses the Windows 8 recovery enviroment to boot. Thanks to my friend Brian_K for helping me with it. So at least I can image the system and boot to a USB to restore it without using the Dell factory image restore that I could not figure out how to use from a USB drive.
I created the option to create the factory restore onto a USB drive and the USB drive did indeed boot the system but the first box that came up says 'the system must be plugged into a power source for a recovery'. Thats where I hit a dead end, if I unplug the flash dive to connect the power it will not continue (of course), if I don't plug it in then the recovery will not contine. Glad I tried it, thank god I wasn't depending on it. One interesting thing is that after creating the factory recovery onto a USB, it's setup like a windows 8 installation disk. The Sources Boot.wim file can be switched with another.wim file and the flash drive will boot it. I replaced it with a PE2.0 wim file from another boot CD (Ghost 15) and it started the program but I got stuck because the touch pad did not work on the first screen to accept the license agreement. I have not had time to play around with it but a PE4.0 wim file may work fine although I don't see any benifit of booting Windows 8 to go on a Windows 8 system.
I'm also disappointed that the SD card is not listed as a bootable device, it would save me from having to use an external flash drive and the SD card is always with the system. On all my other laptops I make the SD card bootable with grub4dos and have several ISO's, recovery disks, and Linix distros I can boot to. Oh well, at least I can image it and recover it now. Does anyone know if we can switch this to 64-bit Windows 8.1 via any method and have the touchscreen work? I realize there is no benefit from a ram perspective since there is only 2gb in it but there are some sdk's (i.e. Win phone 8) that only exist for 64 bit and I would love to switch windows 8.1 from 32 to 64 bit.
The quote below is a bit ambigous to me since it talks about emulation. Has anyone tried this? Most of the above is attempting linux. Dell Update Packages in Microsoft Windows 32-bit format can be deployed on Microsoft 64-bit operating systems by implementing the WOW64 emulation applications. WOW64 is a standard feature on most Microsoft operating systems. You really can't boot a 64-Bit operating system on the Dell Venue 8 Pro, you can only boot a 32-Bit Uefi operating system, so you can't run windows 7 32-Bit because it does not support Uefi and you can't run windows 7 64-Bit because it only supports 32-Bit with Uefi support. If we had legacy boot mode to enable then yes I think we could boot any operating system installer 32-Bit or 64-Bit, keep asking dell for it in the forums and they may just decide to give us legacy boot mode in a bios update, the more users ask the more likely they will listen. Weeden and zygmund pdf free.