Hi hope somebody here can help me out with installing over a network i have a network share with all the win7.wim files separated so i can use offline windows updates and dism.exe to add the packages to keep them updated. when i need to install i have been using the command from a winpe prompt net use r: \\192.168.1.104\public\netinstalls setup.exe /installfrom:r:\win7\winpro64.wim as a eg i was told to use imagex and not the setup.exe by a friend but i have had no luck with it, the image extract to c drive but the c drive just dont boot i think im something missing from the image when its extracted. looking at the c drive from winpe it looks ok but the bootfiles are missing. i hope i have explained my problem clear enough for somebody to help me with the last step of getting the images i have bootable.
Putting the Windows image on a partition with imagex does not write the boot code, make the partition active, or install the boot manager files, that needs to be done as well. Change the drive letter in the examples to the one that you put the files on using imagex. To write the boot code to partition c: and the update the drive's master boot record: Code: bootsect /nt60 c: /mbr To place the boot manager (bootmgr) on partition c: and create an entry for an OS installation at c:\windows: Code: bcdboot c:\windows /s c: To make the partition c: active: Code: diskpart list disk select disk 0 (pick the correct one from the previous listing) list partition select partition 1 (pick the correct one) active quit You know you can put multiple images into one .wim file? It will store duplicate files only once and save you a lot of disk space.
Thankyou 100 works great , i do know about multi images inside 1 wim file but i always forget the index number , having a 12TB server helps as i have a lot of space to play with thanks again