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The whole KZread. i found only this video is clear and smiple to capture the install.wim....Thank you

Thank you for making a detail guide on this. Really helpful. Cheers!

Great job Paul, very helpful information, well done

Thanks for the guide you're extremely underrated!

Thanks for the detailed video. Much appreciated.

Thanks for the tutorial...very easy to follow and works like a charm!

Very helpful for my project. Thank you!

20:04 since we already captured the entire windows instance into a .wim file we can just put it into a usb flash drive with ventoy preinstalled and boot into that wim file, save a little hassle there imo

Thank you very much!

Thanks so much

Thank you

bro, u are a GOD!

@21:49 - index 1 is very large 26GB Can you look to see what's in that file? before sysprep the OS disk used ~40GB, maybe do a cleanup before you sysprep and do compression when moving from WIM to ESD.

Please make a video on, how to skip questions while fresh install of windows 10/11, and remove bloatware and telemetry using unattend.xml answer file

Thanks bro, this was really useful. Question though, after booting into WinPE is it possible to just export the .wim file directly into the \sources folder of the USB iso? (I did this with Win11 and it looks like they no longer create .esd files, just the install.wim)

@paulmoesher

5 ай бұрын

In that case just then yes I would just import directly.

Thanks for that great tutorial! One Q: in the block with Windows Media Creation tool you select the ISO file option and then using Rufus to create the flash drive from the ISO. I don't understand why not to just select The USB drive from the beginning?

@paulmoesher

5 ай бұрын

Rufus gives the option to skip/predetermine responses to the Windows user experience questions which saves a lot of time when imaging several units.

Great video! Can this be used to perform an in place upgrade? If for example you have windows srv 2016 wim and iso, after doing thw whole procedure, can this iso be used to perform an in place upgrade on a win srv 2012? Or it needs to be a clean install? Thanks in advance

@paulmoesher

4 ай бұрын

It should be a clean install.

Great video! I am so close to getting this to work. I had a previous captured .wim that was working through PXE and wanted to get it onto a USB for convenience. After using this method, I get "windows cannot open the required file D:\sources\install.wim". It seems after patiently waiting all day for the export, which was 100% successful, the.wim files opens to a .xml file :(

@paulmoesher

4 ай бұрын

If you have not already I would deploy the pxe wim to a PC and run all of the Windows updates, capture the wim at that point, then make a new bootable Windows flash drive and put it on there. Maybe there is an issue with your older pxe wim not matching up with the Windows version of the USB?

@user-ki4xo6tx5b

4 ай бұрын

@@paulmoesherI ended up making a fresh bootable USB with Rufus...maybe I had chosen FAT32 instead of NTFS. It runs perfectly now - I'm on my 3rd copy. This is great, you have no idea the time this will save! Thank you.

hi I am try wim image making but file install to server deploying no working

Hello Paul, helpful so far, the latest version of the copype Command is CopyDandI and was wondering if you have seen and chnges to the parameters (I have a core i7-8650U CPU x64-based processor, but none of the parameters work with the command ( CopyDandI x64, amd64, arm,amd64 none of them work : all say : the follow processor architecture was not found. i also tried x64.). would really help us. TY amazing so far.

@paulmoesher

2 ай бұрын

What options do you see if you open Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment and run copype? It looks like there is a way to apply updates to the Windows PE add on. Could be worth a try? learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/winpe-create-usb-bootable-drive?view=windows-11

Is there a way to circumvent the USB key and directly inject the insall.wim to an ISO so I can then put it on Ventoy ? Because, as you may know, you can mount an ISO in File Manager but you cannot directly replace the install.wim/esd directly as the ISO file is locked, meaning you can't modify it in any ways. I could use Anyburn but I wish I could use a command line tool to directly replace/inject my custom install.wim without having to go through a USB key, then re-iso it so I can put it in Ventoy...

@paulmoesher

7 ай бұрын

I am sorry but I am not sure. That is not something I have ever looked into.

@rocobruno

7 ай бұрын

@@paulmoesher Just tried Anyburn in it's freeware version, and it does just that. Thanks!

Question, If i am using diffrent machines, but it is still the same device. is generalize necessary? I have to image 30 laptops, all the same.

@paulmoesher

5 ай бұрын

In that case no, but even then I don't really see any downside to generalizing.

@jiggyfeets6050

5 ай бұрын

@@paulmoesher the only problem is I am getting an error in the log file in the panther file pertaining to the generalize.xml file. Sysprep is a headache 😭

in this procedure, after you deploy your image into machine, does bitlocker work?

@paulmoesher

6 ай бұрын

This should not really have any effect on bitlocker. That being said if you have Bitlocker enabled I would recommend having the key stored on a flash drive before reimaging the pc.

Once we use Sysprep are we not removing the Windows license assocaited with that image? Won't we need to add another license to any device we deploy using this method?

@paulmoesher

Жыл бұрын

The license is tied to the device hardware not the image

@navr1111111111111111

Жыл бұрын

@@paulmoesher Thanks for the response. I must be doing something wrong... When I replace the .esd and boot from that USB and choose windows10 pro it downloads a fresh copy without any installed software/updates. No idea why or how. I know for a fact my esd replaced the original install.esd

@navr1111111111111111

Жыл бұрын

Ignore my previous comment.. I must have been using another usb. It worked perfectly thank you. I am attemping to integrate a unattent.xml into the setup to skip OOBE using this method until I can set up WDS/MDT

@MiguelHernandez-jb9ml

3 күн бұрын

@@navr1111111111111111 do you click on setup or install.esd to deploy the image?

Hi, thank you for your help! when trying to capture, it went super fast, so I figured something was up. I rand Diskpart, and my OS Drive is not showing on the list? So nothing is being captured essentially.. any suggestions? TIA

@paulmoesher

22 сағат бұрын

I would triple-check that when you boot the winpe disk you are entering that command in correctly. Normally if it goes super fast for me it's because I had a typo. Next time if it goes fast it should just go to the next line and you can try entering it again.

@Texasdope11

21 сағат бұрын

So I think I figured this out, the computer is set to RAID - when I set it to AHCI, and ran WinPE it was able to find the disk. But wouldn't this cause onflict when deploying?

@paulmoesher

17 сағат бұрын

@@Texasdope11 I would think so since its a disk image and not a disk clone.

My windows install disk for windows 11 has an install.wim not an install.esd. Did this change recently? If so what do you do to make that work? Do I make a .wim file instead?

@paulmoesher

10 ай бұрын

At the 20:03 point of the video, it describes how to convert the install.win to install.esd

@user-qm3xz8oc9g

10 ай бұрын

@@paulmoesherthanks for getting back to me. On my windows install disk there is not an .esd to overwrite. There is an install.wim however. So so I just not need to convert? Did windows change its install media?

@user-qm3xz8oc9g

10 ай бұрын

Maybe I should try to clarify more. I am talking about the install media that is created from Microsoft. When I got into the sources folder there isn't an .esd file, there is a .wim. On your's there is a .esd file and you convert your ,wim to an .esd and overwrite it. My install disk only has a .wim so do I not convert it to a .esd and just use the .wim? Or is there something else going on here? This is a great video, just need clarification on this! Thanks!

@paulmoesher

10 ай бұрын

@@user-qm3xz8oc9g If that is the case then you just need to deploy that original basic .wim on a PC. Customize it however you like for your image then capture the .wim and replace the original install.wim with your updated one. You can skip the conversion step.

I'm using an older version of winpe for windows 7? What the command be different? I can't get a dism command to work.

@paulmoesher

Ай бұрын

I don't see why it would not. What is the exact error you are getting?

@brianschumacher8956

Ай бұрын

@@paulmoesher capture-image is unknown command. I ended using the windows 7 with imagex pe. I couldn't get the copy pe to work for windows 10 pe. I then used hirens boot CD and the command in your video worked on my main PC. But the computer I was trying to capture couldn't boot into hirens CD. That is why I went back to the windows 7 pe and the imagex command worked.

To deploy the image to other computers are you installing and clicking on setup.exe or install.esd?

@paulmoesher

3 күн бұрын

You would use the boot key when the PC is booting up and you would choose to boot from the USB.

@MiguelHernandez-jb9ml

2 күн бұрын

@@paulmoesher can you not install the image like a regular exe? If not do I need to install from USB on all new computers?

@paulmoesher

2 күн бұрын

@@MiguelHernandez-jb9ml For a clean install you should be booting from the usb

Can one capture a Win 11 Pro wim, export it to esd and then place it onto a Windows 10 installation disk?

@paulmoesher

4 ай бұрын

No the versions of windows need to match.

There is no need to convert install.wim to install.esd because with the default windows 10 iso there is install.wim file on there ......correct me if im wrong

@paulmoesher

15 күн бұрын

Refer to the video description

Thanks but sysprem doesn't work on updated windows for some reason

@paulmoesher

2 ай бұрын

There is a log file inside of the sysprep folder that will tell you why it may be failing. Could be a pending update, an app that needs removed/updated, hard to say but the logs will point you in the right direction.

@jasonhawkins4528

2 ай бұрын

@@paulmoesher Yes I got to have a look to see why, ive been busy it just comes up with it can't system prep upgraded version of windows, even though it's not upgraded but the wim image without sysprep went fine without errors

Let's say you have apps on your computer where you have a license to activate them, like word or adobe. Will the license carry over when you install the image on the new computer?

@paulmoesher

3 күн бұрын

I feel like best practice would be to not capture the image with the software keys but in theory, if it is a machine-wide install the keys would still be there when you go to deploy if they were there when you captured.

@luddman77

2 күн бұрын

@@paulmoesher Thanks! What is that the best practice? I’m curious.

@paulmoesher

2 күн бұрын

@@luddman77 It is basically just a term to describe the agreed upon best way to do something in the IT community.

@luddman77

2 күн бұрын

@@paulmoesher I’m sorry that was a typo. Why would it be considered the best practice to do it before you install the apps?

@paulmoesher

2 күн бұрын

@@luddman77 It would be best practice to enter any license keys after installing the image and to not make it part of the image. I believe this to be the case due to some licensing keys not all working the same, some are per user some are per machine. You also do not want software licensed for users who don't need it and should only use the keys on a need-to basis. I like keeping the base image to the essentials and using other solutions to deploy the case-to-case stuff after the PC is joined.

is there any windows 11 please

Do you have a email just in case I have questions? Going to try this

Does it work with win 11?

@paulmoesher

7 ай бұрын

Yes

@shimonvacknin3602

7 ай бұрын

@@paulmoesher Thanks

sir plz give custom windose drive link on the discaption plz plz plz

18:40 dism capture image

@sevciu1

6 ай бұрын

Note: At mark 18:40 when dism capture image is used, the Windows partition is not always C:\. On my install, C:\ was the 500MB System reserved partition and Windows partition ended up being F:\. It's a good idea to check with diskpart what is the allocated drive letter. Cheers! By the way, many thanks for the excellent instructions.