Windows Imaging Format files used in installing Windows Vista/Server 2008 and newer
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Boot to VHD, Moving Child disks between parents
Trying to find the answer to this scenario...
Have two physical machines that are configured with boot to vhd and they both have differencing disks. The system OS, drivers and base software is ...
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Why does my VM hang on “Windows is loading files…” during a sysprep and capture task sequence?
My nice, well crafted reference machine will not boot at all! I'm trying to run a sysprep and capture task sequence (MDT 2010 and WDS off server 2012). I ran litetouch.vbs off the deployment share ...
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Refurbished System Windows License Key and OEM Media
According to this question, it is legal to use a Windows 7 OEM license that is presently installed as a 32-bit install with a 64-bit version of Windows 7. With that in mind, I purchased several ...
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Windows Installer and Custom Images
If I understand correctly, the Windows 7 installer engine's Windows Imaging Format is partially designed to make it easy to do deployment to multiple computers using an image. I have a scenario where ...
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Deploying a Windows 7 image, which way is the fastest? [closed]
I captured an image of a basic Windows 7 installation with some modifications using imagex.
Before the image was captured, I ran sysprep generalizing and selecting to enter OOBE after it's done.
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System Reserved Partition has Drive Letter After Applying a WIM Image with ImageX
I have installed Windows Vista on a computer using ImageX from WinPE. I followed the instructions here for partitioning the hard drive, creating a 300 MB system partition and using the rest of the ...
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Can WIM Images be used to perform an upgrade install?
As far as I can tell WinPE can only be used to perform a clean install using a WIM image. However, I can't seem to find any definite information that says I can't perform a upgrade installation. Can ...
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Booting Windows7 kernel from an initrd/wim image file
I'm wondering if it's possibile to have Win7 kernel and relative drivers (especially storage drivers) to boot from an initrd-like image file (maybe .wim?) and later then mount the windows root ...
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How to boot an WIM image?
Is it possible to boot from a Windows WIM image or is that not possible? What's the difference between ISO and WIM?
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Can not install .Wim onto a Dell using Windows PE
I have created a .WIM file of a HP Laptop with all drivers, software etc installed using WAIK, I have created a new VM using Oracle VM Box and deployed the image onto this Virtual Machine, this all ...
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Do WIM disk images and VMware/VirtualBox/Parallels play well together? If so, how?
I want to create a WIM image and use VMware to manipulate it. Is this doable?
Another option that has been offered is to install a fresh system on a virtual machine, set up the VM the way I want it, ...
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Modifying MBR entries after implementing Windows 7 image
I have a computer whose hard disk I recently formatted. As soon as I implement a .wim image in the computer using the WindowsPE disc with imagex utility, two entries are shown in the mbr menu: one for ...
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How can I restore my system from WIM files? [duplicate]
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How can I restore my system from WIM files?
How can I restore my system from WIM files? base.WIM file is located at my 4th partation of my harddisk.
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How can I restore my system from WIM files?
I installed another OS on my netbook and decided I want to revert back to Windows 7 Starter. I was careful to keep the recovery partition, but even when I manage to boot to it, the system just ...
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How to burn WIM image to DVD or to convert it to ISO?
I need to run vista recovery but its boot loader is destoryed. The only way to run reovery seems to be burning a temporary DVD from base.wim and boot.wim taken from vista recovery partition.
How can I ...
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Is it possible/How to boot an XP VHD in Windows 7
In windows 7 it is pretty simple to boot directly to a VHD, given that it also contains (or you are going to install) Windows 7 (or Vista/Server 2008).
This installation is made possible I believe by ...
