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Windows Imaging Format files used in installing Windows Vista/Server 2008 and newer

Windows Imaging Format files are used in installing Windows Vista/Server 2008 and newer versions of the OS from Microsoft. They can be customised for deploys where they configure a system wit selected drivers, applications and update patches.

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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., boot.wim] varying: dism /Get-WimInfo…
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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 before I tear into it, I'd like an image of the disk…
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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 restarts a few seconds after selecting "restore." I…
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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: dism /capture-image…
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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 and selected the task, but upon reboot the machine…
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Can I use a "refurbished" Windows license key with 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 refurbished systems through TigerDirect. When 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 the fact that from Vista on, Microsoft is using…
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How can I install Windows 7 using WinPE?

I made a Bootable Windows PE RAM Disk on a USB Flash Disk by following the instructions in Walkthrough: Create a Bootable Windows PE RAM Disk on a USB Flash Disk. Now, I want to install a new Windows 7 from a .wim file, but I have no idea how to do…
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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, and then boot the VM to WinPE and image the…
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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 existing directory. Powershell Mount-DiskImage can only…
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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 pass my configuration file using the -ConfigFilePath…
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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 1,2,3 and 4. I suppose numbers are the 4 editions I…
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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 partition and complete the load of the full OS? I'll try…
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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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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 (containing extracted contents of a Windows installation…
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