{"id":25,"date":"2017-12-26T06:46:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T06:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.laptoparena.net\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2017-12-26T06:46:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T06:46:03","slug":"create-a-wim-image-of-windows-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laptoparena.net\/blog\/create-a-wim-image-of-windows-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"Create a wim image of windows installation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boot a Windows PE image by dvd, usb or network.<\/span>

You will end up with a cmd prompt :<\/span>
X:\\windows\\system32\\>wpeinit<\/span>

IF you want to work with a network location instead of a USB drive or local hdd you can map it with:<\/span>
net use n: \\\\networkpc\\sharename passwords \/user:username<\/strong>View partitions :<\/span>
diskpart<\/span>
list volume<\/span>
exit<\/span>

For windows 7 :<\/strong>
f:\\imagex.exe \/capture d: f:\\mywin_c.wim “Win_Vol”<\/span>
and optional :\u00a0<\/span>
f:\\imagex.exe \/capture e: f:\\mywin_d.wim “Data_Vol”\u00a0<\/span>


To restore them on another pc, boot pe image :<\/span>
First to make the partition we will use a file :\u00a0<\/span>

X:\\windows\\system32\\>diskpart \/s diskpart.txt<\/span>


diskpart.txt :<\/strong>

Select disk 0<\/span>
Clean<\/span>
Create partition primary size=81920<\/span>
Select partition 1<\/span>
assign letter=c<\/span>
active<\/span>
Format fs=ntfs quick<\/span>
Create partition primary<\/span>
Select partition 2<\/span>
assign letter=d<\/span>
Format fs=ntfs quick<\/span>
Exit<\/span>


X:\\windows\\system32\\>F:<\/span>

F:>imagex.exe \/apply f:\\xt3215pos7.wim1 d:<\/span>
F:>imagex.exe \/apply f:\\xt3215pos7_d.wim1 e:<\/span>

bcdboot c:\\windows<\/span>

<\/p>\n

For windows 8 or 8.1 you have to use\u00a0DISM<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\nDism \/Capture-Image \/ImageFile:F:\\mywin_SR.wim\u00a0 \/CaptureDir:C:\\ \/Name:”System Reserved”<\/p>\n

Dism \/Capture-Image \/ImageFile:F:\\mywin_c.wim\u00a0 \/CaptureDir:D:\\ \/Name:”Win_Vol”
\nDism \/Capture-Image \/ImageFile:F:\\mywin_c.wim\u00a0 \/CaptureDir:E:\\ \/Name:”Data_Vol”<\/p>\n

to apply image :<\/p>\n

Dism \/apply-image \/imagefile=n:\\SPACERI34160\\mywin_c.wim \/index:1\u00a0 \/ApplyDir:D:\\
\nDism \/apply-image \/imagefile=n:\\SPACERI34160\\mywin_d.wim \/index:1 \/ApplyDir:E:\\<\/p>\n

bcdboot C:\\Windows \/l en-US
\n————-
\nErrors :<\/p>\n

dism \/Capture-Image
\nThe capture-image option is unknown – you need to run winpe 5.1<\/p>\n

Imagex Error 112 There Is Not Enough Space On The Disk error – you probably are saving the image to a usb stick that is formatted with fat32 that has a file limit of 4gb – format the usb to NTFS<\/p>\n

While capturing a windows 8 or windows 8.1 with imagex you get a lot of warnings and it takes a long time (around 45 min) to make the image.
\n[ INFO ] Ignoring Extended Attributes in [c:\\Program Files\\xxxxxxx]
\nTo capture a windows 8 or 8.1 installation you have to use\u00a0dism<\/strong>\u00a0with win pe 5.1 as imagex does not know to read and\/or restore the Extended Attributes form windows 8<\/p>\n

————————–<\/p>\n

To automate more :
\nEdit \/sources\/boot.wim\/windows\/system32\/startnet.cmd :<\/p>\n

wpeinit<\/p>\n

d:
\ndiskpart \/s diskpart.txt
\nImagex.exe \/apply KS6815posrdyEB31.wim 1 c:<\/p>\n

Exit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boot a Windows PE image by dvd, usb or network.You will end up with a cmd prompt :X:\\windows\\system32\\>wpeinitIF you want to work with a network location instead of a USB drive or local hdd you can map it with:net use n: \\\\networkpc\\sharename passwords \/user:usernameView partitions :diskpartlist volumeexitFor windows 7 :f:\\imagex.exe \/capture d: f:\\mywin_c.wim “Win_Vol”and optional … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laptoparena.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laptoparena.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laptoparena.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laptoparena.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laptoparena.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.laptoparena.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.laptoparena.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laptoparena.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laptoparena.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laptoparena.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}