benefreire
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hi,
we made a .wim file to restore win8. Anyone know how to do this?
we made a .wim file to restore win8. Anyone know how to do this?
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Easier to d/l gimagex - it's very small and free - ( you will need to run it from win 7 or win8 or win7 or win 8 pe - else you will need to install wimfltr )
GImageX - AutoItScript
apply the image to a premade partition with that.
Create boot files with bcdboot command - aimed at the active partition.
Yes, you can lean over and use the bcdboot.exe on the partition you just applied it to, like this:
win8partitionletter:\windows\system32\bcdboot win8partitionletter:\windows /s activepartitionletter:
Don't use WAIK anymore with CP. About the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit <-- this is it's replacement.
Don't use WAIK anymore with CP. About the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit <-- this is it's replacement.
Hi there
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What are you actually saying here --I can't find ANYTHING in your post --including going to the MS link which serves as the replacement .
Also SmartWim runs like a One Legged dog on an Ice Pond compared with IMAGEX. I'm always suspicious anyway of these type of products. If MS is designing windows it just seems obvious that for "Kernel" type images MS should be the best source --note here I'm not talking about 3rd party apps etc but just the basic kernel Sources.
Cheers
jimbo
If you want the winpe bit - it is pretty big
win8partitionletter:\windows\system32\bcdboot win8partitionletter:\windows /s activepartitionletter:
In order to restore an OEM's recovery from a hidden partition on a W8 system, can one simply use the cmd prompt to issue this command after booting from a W8-generated USB recovery drive, assuming that I have the contents of the recovery partition copied to the recovery drive? Is the bcdboot and cmd prompt available from the recovery drive? And, in what instance would you need to assign different letters to Win8 and the active partition?
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Don't use WAIK anymore with CP. About the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit <-- this is it's replacement.
Hi there
????
What are you actually saying here --I can't find ANYTHING in your post --including going to the MS link which serves as the replacement .
Also SmartWim runs like a One Legged dog on an Ice Pond compared with IMAGEX. I'm always suspicious anyway of these type of products. If MS is designing windows it just seems obvious that for "Kernel" type images MS should be the best source --note here I'm not talking about 3rd party apps etc but just the basic kernel Sources.
Cheers
jimbo
There is no WAIK for Windows 8. There is not now and will never be one. WAIK has been supplanted by WADK or Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit. From the website I linked:
"Windows deployment is intended for OEMs and IT professionals who want to customize and automate the installation of Windows in their factories or organizations. In addition to new tools, the Windows ADK includes the deployment tools that were previously released as part of the Windows OEM Preinstallation Kit and the Windows Automated Installation Kit."
It's got the new version of bcdboot, bcdedit, bootsect and imagex as well as the very different Windows Pre-installation images and tools. Plus it's more download friendly. You download a stub installer that only grabs the stuff you are interested in.
So far we have not covered GPT UEFI booting. I've tried several times to create a UEFI boot UFD containing Win8 PE from the ADK, the DISM dir (recommended over IMAGEX now), BCDBOOT and the INSTALL.WIM from the Win8 x64 ISO sources directory. They idea is to set the destination computer to boot insecure UEFI from the UFD, DISKPART sel dis, cle, con gpt, cre par xyz, for quick, ass, exi and DISM /apply-image to the boot partition. The problems lies with getting a compatible system partition load with BCDBOOT for the system partition. I'm using the info here as the basis of my research: Sample: Configure UEFI/GPT-Based Hard Drive Partitions by Using Windows PE and DiskPart
I think what you are asking is how to go about doing a recovery -- that involves both the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) AND your custom recovery partition. More info here: Samples: Applying Windows, System, and Recovery Partitions by using a Deployment Script
So far we have not covered GPT UEFI booting. I've tried several times to create a UEFI boot UFD containing Win8 PE from the ADK, the DISM dir (recommended over IMAGEX now), BCDBOOT and the INSTALL.WIM from the Win8 x64 ISO sources directory. They idea is to set the destination computer to boot insecure UEFI from the UFD, DISKPART sel dis, cle, con gpt, cre par xyz, for quick, ass, exi and DISM /apply-image to the boot partition. The problems lies with getting a compatible system partition load with BCDBOOT for the system partition. I'm using the info here as the basis of my research: Sample: Configure UEFI/GPT-Based Hard Drive Partitions by Using Windows PE and DiskPart
I think what you are asking is how to go about doing a recovery -- that involves both the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) AND your custom recovery partition. More info here: Samples: Applying Windows, System, and Recovery Partitions by using a Deployment Script
Interesting. With those two links and the OEM WIM file, it seems you can restore it to bare metal quite easily from a WinPE disk. Now, the OEM recovery partition also contains WIMs for the EFI and WinRE as well, but it appears the script handles this by simply copying contents from the applied WIM to those partitions. From experience of which I have absolutely none, are these "helper" WIMs required to apply in place of the default ones applied in the script?
The second method from Haxcid above seems even easier in that you can simply replace the install.wim on a normal W8 install DVD with an OEM's install.wim? Almost sounds too good to be true!