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Introduction

Windows has been a pain in everyone's ass since Microsoft decided to use UEFI and Safeboot with their operating system. Many people's solution to dual-booting (from my point of view) has been: "Format the entire physical disk, setup with GPT, let windows create too many partitions than it needs and monopolize the whole disk to itself."

So. In this gist, I will show you (with pictures too hopefully) how to "force" windows to be installed even though it refuses to. In this case I will be using my desktop which has a modern intel x86_64 CPU, 4 internal hard drives (no SSDs), and one single linux installation partitioned on the primary disk (which is where we will be installing windows as well).

Now the first issue I ran into was that my primary disk was originally not in the GPT partition format (since I partitioned the disk long before I had a UEFI capable bios). After using a linux bootable and gdisk, I was able to convert it from MBR to GPT and boot linux via GRUB EFI.

2018.10.10: reinstated 1809 [RS5]! using native xml patching for products.xml; fixed syntax bug with exit/b
2018.10.12: added data loss warning for RS5
2018.11.13: RS5 is officially back! + greatly improved choices dialog - feel free to use the small snippet in your own scripts
2019.05.22: 1903 [19H1]
2019.07.11: 1903 __release_svc_refresh__ and enable DynamicUpdate by default to grab latest CU
2019.09.29: UPDATED 19H1 build 18362.356 ; RS5 build 17763.379 and show build number

	Windows.10.and.Office.2016.gVLK

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	# Install/Uninstall keys #
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	1.) Uninstall the current product by entering the “uninstall product key” extension:
	slmgr.vbs /upk

	2.) Install the key that you obtained above for “Windows Srv 2012R2 DataCtr/Std KMS for Windows 10”

	:: Windows diskpart batchfile for easily formatting, creating a primary partition with a label, and attaching the disk to user defined values
	:: https://github.com/trevor229

	@echo off
	net session >nul 2>&1
	if %errorLevel% == 0 (
	goto :drive_handler
	) else (
	@echo Failure: Script must be run as Administrator.
	pause

	@ECHO OFF
	SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
	FOR /F %%A IN ('COPY /Z "%~DPF0" NUL') DO SET "CR=%%A"
	FOR /F %%B IN ('ECHO PROMPT $H ^\| CMD') DO SET "BS=%%B"
	(SET \N=^
	%=_Empty_Line_=%
	)

	:BITS_DN
	IF NOT [%2] == [] IF [%3] == [] GOTO BITS_SET

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	#resources
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	#http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721886(v=ws.10).aspx
	#http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709667(v=ws.10).aspx
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	#resources
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	rem == CreatePartitions-UEFI.txt ==
	rem == These commands are used with DiskPart to
	rem create five partitions
	rem for a UEFI/GPT-based PC.
	rem Adjust the partition sizes to fill the drive
	rem as necessary. ==
	select disk 0
	clean
	convert gpt
	rem == 1. Windows RE tools partition ===============