Questions tagged [wim]
Windows Imaging Format files used in installing Windows Vista/Server 2008 and newer
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What does DISM /Online /Add-Capability /CapabilityName:VBSCRIPT~~~~ do to install VBScript?
I ask this because if all it does is add/restore vbscript.dll and do a regsvr32 vbscript.dll, then for new PCs where vbscript has to be available, it can be rolled into existing configuration scripts ...
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WinRE not enabled after applying newly generated .WIM file
I am trying to generate an reference image of Windows 10 pro. Everything works fine but the recovery tools are not enabled by default in the OOBE after applying the image despite the recovery tools ...
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When mounting a WIM file, does the performance of the disk containing the mountpoint matter?
Let's say I am mounting a WIM image on Windows using dism:
dism /Mount-Image /ImageFile:D:\work\sources\install.wim /Index:1 /MountDir:E:\work.tmp
Here, D:\work is the "source" directory (...
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Swapping the install.wim in Windows 11 installation media would not let me get past first boot
Whenever I swap the install.wim of any Windows 11 installation media I got with a WIM file I captured of my Windows install, it would not get past the first boot, right after copying the files:
I don'...
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Applying different images in install.wim during the installation setup
I have images captured of my C: & D: & I want these two images applied to C: & D: during installations henceforth. So I was thinking, I would replace the install.wim in the \sources of a ...
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Appending more images to install.wim. Would it be applied as well?
I'm appending an image of another drive, D:, to install.wim (an install.wim that already contains a slightly customized Windows). The additional image of D: is of course at index 2. When I run the OS ...
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Custom Windows 11 installation media made by swapping install.wim with a WIM captured from my system
So, I have a WIM captured from my Sysprep-ed, customized Windows 11 install + additional programs. The system drive, C:, basically. I want to be able to deploy this custom install to any of my desktop ...
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Which version of Windows 10 is on my USB flash drive installer?
I have a Windows 10 InstallUSB and I'd like to know which version of Windows 10 it is. Searching online, I found this technique in many places, with the file [install.<esd||swm||wim>, boot.wim] ...
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Creating a clean WIM/ESD file out of my current Windows Server 2012 installation
Here's my scenario:
We have an old Dell PowerEdge Server with an OEM Windows Server 2012 Foundation license. The machine is working perfectly and there's currently an OS deployment running on it, ...
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Install Windows from Linux using wimapply
I am looking for way to install Windows 10 from the Linux (I am currently using Arch Linux here) without having to create the bootable USB disk.
I noticed that there are an utility called wimapply ...
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WinRe.wim what do i do with it?
I bought a brand new Razer Blade Advanced 2021 and it won't boot.
Razer tech support sent me over a ZIP file (as a link to my email).
After downloading and extracting it, it's a bunch of SWM, WIM ...
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DISM restore capability removed from WIM copy, using original
Suppose I was over-eager in pruning my Windows install image:
FOR /f %I ('DISM /Image /Get-Capabilities /Format:Table') DO DISM /Image /Remove-Capability /CapabilityName:%I
Can I restore individual ...
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how to edit windows 10 iso to exclude other versions
I have been going through the process of slimming down my windows 10 ISO file, but have been unable to get it below the 3.5 gb mark; Removing the windows components is not something I am hoping to do. ...
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How to modify a WinPE iso to also have the ability to install Windows from the WinPE
I want to use an existing WinPE.wim to troubleshoot problems and run Windows' install's setup.exe, with a desktop shortcut linking to it.
Is this as simple as adding a desktop shortcut to folders ...
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Adding powershell and other packets to winre.wim doesnt work (0x800f081e)
as the question tells im trying to add powershell as a feature to a pxe bootable winRE.wim. I get the errorcode 0x800f081e and it says the packet is not valid for this image. For a better look, you ...
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How do I switch from an old version of ADK to new version permanently in Windows 2012 R2 server?
Methods attempted:
Edited the environment variable PATH and kept path of ADK "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Assessment and Deployment Kit\Deployment Tools\amd64\DISM\dism.exe" in ...
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WIM file compression
I build a custom windows 10 installer via sysprep (windows 10 pro Build 20H2). The windows created WIM-file is too large to my liking, over 9gb (want it to fit on a 8gb drive). Therefor I was trying ...
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Install software from Windows PE
I have a base wim image file that I apply by booting into window pe and installing on a devices hard drive.
After the base image is applied I would like to install custom software depending on what is ...
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How to mount a WIM image as a drive letter in Windows?
I want to mount a WIM image as a new drive letter on Windows 10.
As follows from Microsoft documentation for DISM Image Management Command-Line Options, DISM can only mount a WIM image to an ...
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Custom WIM shows up blank in Windows Setup
I am trying to set up a custom image to load with windows setup. It works fine, but for some reason the operating system has a blank selection in Windows Setup.
But when I check the WIM title and ...
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How to convert .wim to .tib files?
I have a PXE server using Acronis Snap Deploy 5.
Each time I get a new version of an image from my associate, it comes as a .wim (or .iso) file.
So, to use it with ASD5, I first install it on a drive ...
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Use DISM to create a WIM image of the C: partition ONLY
I have an old laptop with windows 10 Pro installed and I want to make a .wim of the C: drive using DISM so I can append it to the system partition of my new laptop
I have never used DISM before. How ...
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Whether a `.wim` file is a disk's all copy? contains all the partitions of a disk? [duplicate]
We know the WIM is Windows Imaging Format,
such as we know the install.wim, is it mean all of a disk's copy?
if the disk have four partitions, will the install.wim contains all the four partitions ...
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Windows SIM is failing to open a .wim with a System.BadImageFormatException
I'm trying to validate my Answer file using Windows System Image Manager. To do this, I need to open the Install.wim off of the .iso provided by my vendor, however when I try to open both the x64 and ...
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Why do these configuration file exclusions work with DISM /Capture-Image but not the New-WindowsImage cmdlet?
I am trying to create a configuration file to define exclusions for an image capture as described in DISM Configuration List and WimScript.ini Files. The exclusion rules seem to be ignored when I ...
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Encrypting WIM files
We use WIM files to deploy images on workstations (we use DISM on WinPE).
Is there a way to encrypt the WIM file while it sits on the flash drive, and decrypt it upon use?
We haven't found this ...
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Windows 10 Deployment by WIM image
Background: A long time ago, I followed a guide to create a Windows 7 disk image. The image has all the software my users need pre-installed. I put the WIM image on a USB drive, and, together with ...
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VHD from WIM won't boot
I have a wim obtained from a machine running Win10. I intend to spin this up as a VM in Hyper-V. This is the procedure so far:
create 40G VHD using Hyper-V manager.
mount the VHD using Computer ...
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Is it possible to convert an existing Windows 7 installation to a WIM and continue using it?
I switched to using a new fully licenced Windows 10 (not an upgrade). Unfortunately, MS Windows operating systems were never meant to run side by side, so reconfigurations without re-installations are ...
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DISM split image wrong size
I'm trying to split a 19GB image to fit a FAT32 drive (can't format it now), and I'm using this command:
Dism /Split-Image /ImageFile:D:\img.wim /SWMFile:D:\sp\split.swm /FileSize:myFileSize
My ...
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Is there a good way to convert from a WIM file to an ESD file other than using Dism?
Some background info first - My friend and I are trying to create a "local deployment tool" in batch that allows us to capture an image of a sysprepped computer and export it into a pre-existing ...
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Generated Windows 10 Wim from Hyper-V has default playback device set to headphones
I have generated a WIM from a Hyper-V VM.
After deploying the WIM I noticed the default playback device is set to 'headphones'.
Is there a way I can prevent this from happening? Is there anything I ...
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After Windows 10 WIM deploy, system fails to boot
I have some brand new notebooks (they are HP Z Book G4 Studios). From the state I received the units, I wanted to deploy the company image, instead of using what came loaded by the factory.
Before ...
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Applying a WIM with duplicated file entries
I wanted to cleanup the partition table on my drive, so I grabbed another drive and made a Windows To Go workspace. In that WTG system, I backed up my exising Windows 10 with DISM. Then I cleaned the ...
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DISM doesn't work for Windows Vista image
I was trying to add the Spanish language pack and remove the English LP to Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP2 iso file.
Some info that will help you to answer:
The OS installed on my PC is Windows 7 ...
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Making Windows 7 installation media via Linux from WIM files
I want to install Windows 7 (32-bit, sold on an Asus eeePC) in a virtual machine (VirtualBox, running on Ubuntu on said eeePC). What I have is:
A blank disk in a virtual machine, awaiting some ...
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What's difference between `Dism /Capture-Image` and `recimg -CreateImage` on Windows 8.1?
I'm trying to make sense of wimboot vs refresh. Can someone give a short answer to the following?
What's the difference between
Dism /Capture-Image
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recimg -CreateImage
They both produce .wim ...
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How to prepare multilanguage Windows 7 iso?
I prepared WIM image with all updates and three languages: english, polish and korean. When I apply WIM image with ImageX, I can choose one of those languages. But when I replace install.wim in ISO ...
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How do I fix a corrupted WIM file?
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I have a corrupt WIM archive that I'm trying to extract. I have tried using DISM, but it won't let me mount it because it doesn't recognize it as a WIM file. I have also tried editing it with a ...
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How to deploy a .wim image to new system
I have a .wim of a standard image to be used to deploy new machines at my organization. Does anyone know how I can take that image, put it on a bootable USB stick and deploy it and install the new ...
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Windows SIM can't create a catalog file from a wim
I'm currently trying to use Windows SIM to create a Windows 10 autounattend.xml file for a custom installation. I have a standard, generic, enterprise edition of Windows 10, which is my source for the ...
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Remove editions of Windows 7 Iso
I downloaded an ISO of Windows 7 64 bits, I have a problem: I saw 4 editions in .clg files (home basic, premium, professional and ultimate), I opened install.wim with 7zip and I saw folders called 1,2,...
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With DISM, what's the difference between capturing an image and modifying it offline?
It seems there are two ways to go about making a customized or 'thick' image. Install everything you want in a reference machine (preferably a VM) and 'capture' the new operating for use as an ...
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Why doesn't Windows 10 need a recovery image (like install.wim) to reset the system?
Windows 8/8.1 requires a standalone recovery image to reset the system. But, Microsoft claimed that Windows 10 no longer needs it.http://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2015/03/16/how-windows-10-...
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how to deploy WIM image to surface pro 2
I tried to deploy a windows image (wim) file using imageX to a surface pro 2 but the tabled is not booting up, it stays on boot menu.
any help on how can I do troubleshooting?
sorry this is the ...
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Multiple WIM files with Windows Setup
I am wanting to create a USB drive that run Windows Setup. But here at work, we use a different WIM file for every department and update each one very often. I am wanting to be able to run windows ...
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DISM to Capture Entire Disk As-Is
In short: Is it possible to leverage dism to capture an image of an entire disk as-is, akin to taking an image with Ghost, GParted, PartedMagic, CloneZilla etc.?
I've got a shiny new machine and ...
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Is it possible to produce a pre-patched Win7 WIM image using MDT deployment Workbench only?
Is it possible to produce a pre-patched Win7 WIM image using MDT deployment Workbench only?
Presently, I'm using dism command line tool in order to pre-patch the WIM images with the downloaded ...
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DISM fails with 'There is not enough space on the disk.' while capturing an image
I use DISM to capture images and store them on a network disk. I use a standard 32bit WinPE 4.0 environment to capture them.
My current path was set to i:\images and I executed the following command:
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Difference between base.wim and boot.wim
I'm trying to build a recovery ISO so I can expand it to a different computer, however I have 2 .wim files: base.wim and boot.wim.
base.wim is 10 GB while boot.wim is only 146 MB.
I've tried ...
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