[MinnowBoard] Installing Windows 8.1 on the MinnowBoard Max?

[Timothy Hurita]

The Create-DevboardKey.ps1 script didn't for me either and to make matters worse it creates a reg entry that prevents the USB thumb drive from mapping the next time it's plugged into the system. Deleting that key fixes the issue. 
Also, the Win7 USB download tool doesn't create a UEFI bootable thumbdrive that's usable on the MAX.
What does work is a free tool called Rufus - http://rufus.akeo.ie/
Set the partition scheme to GPT partition for UEFI computers, file system FAT32, 4K cluster size. I am going from memory here but that seems to be the magic formula if I remember correctly.
I've had Win 8.1U1 x64 Embedded running just fine for a couple weeks now. There's quite a few devices yellow banged in device manager but I did find the HD graphics which helped quite a bit.
Tim 		 	   		  
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