Microsoft's ValidationOS A Lightweight Verification OS for Hardware Defects

TapTechNews July 13th news, in addition to the common Windows versions that everyone sees, Microsoft also provides a series of deployment tools and verification tools specifically for developers, hardware/software vendors, such as DISM, WinPE, Factory OS, etc., and also includes a lightweight verification operating system based on Windows 11, namely ValidationOS (Verification OS).

In simple terms, ValidationOS is exclusively for vendors to diagnose, mitigate and repair hardware defects in the factory workshop. It was initially released in June 2022, and then had an update in July 2023, and now it has been updated again to the 24H2RTM version (Build 26100.1).

If any TapTechNews friends are willing to give it a try, they can download the Windows image (.WIM) file for ARM64 and AMD64 architectures through the Microsoft official website.

After customizing the ValidationOS image, you can use it to start the computer. You can create and use a bootable USB medium and run ValidationOS from RAM, or you can apply the image directly to the hard drive of the computer.

To set up the environment to create a bootable ValidationOS environment, a technician's computer with the following conditions is required:

The latest Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit and WindowsPE add-on installed

Customized ValidationOS.wim image

The USB drive you will use:

Create bootable WinPE media

Store attachments that can be used during the ValidationOS deployment.