if its possible its will take same time its better just download ur edition from ms or original iso somewhere
mb if u installed it on vmware apply the update/s / restart and do that for all the updates do cleanup with dism sysperp it then capture it its looks possible but its just a hassle
btw sysperp is optional in windows 8 cos its uni drivers it can auto fix the drivers database no need to sysperp
Will this work ? I install Windows 8 from my install.wim which I have, upgrade it from the store. After it upgrades and restarts into OOBE, I shutdown manually. I then boot into WinPE and capture the image. Will the image taken with above process work ? P.S - I want this new wim image to boot into OOBE whenever its used.
yea it should capture the image fine and work if not its must be the winpe version, ver 5.0 should be fine if its not sysperp the oobe screen wont appear but its possible to create users via pc settings/accounts in metro easily
It might work, but I don't recommend it especially when you are going to deploy the image onto another PC (regardless of physical or virtual). I guess running sysprep and generalizing the image is still the right way even when you use an upgraded installtion as your base image, although not an officially supported scenario. EDIT: I think you need to run sysprep anyway if you want the image to go into OOBE when it boots up for the first time.
I am gonna delete the registry key and try to make sysprep work. I hope it works. Right now, its downloading Win 8.1 with update from store, will update how it goes.