To capture the wim, boot to a winpe (boot.wim), have a copy of imagex.exe (or gimagex) somewhere on your pc or usb stick, in the Winpe hit shift and f-10 for a cmd, and then run the imagex capture command.
It worked that way, except for the regedit sequence nothing is accomplish that way. Finally I captured the image using dism. Thanks a lot. PS @ace2 One question, I suppose when you speak of drive D, this is another partition on the same drive where Windows is installed, not a usb drive or external HDD ?
I was able to get the image to export succsesfully. I had to skip using gimagex cause it kept messing up the install.wim. I was able to install the captured wim and everything was good. I am now repeating the process on all editions of Win 7. Get back to this topic soon.
Okay so I pretty much figured most of this out, only problem I am having now is file sizes. How can I compress it down further? I am using the ADK Imagex /compress Maximum and then export /compress maximum but cannot get it any smaller that 4GB. If I am going to update ALL editions/arch then it needs to be smaller file sizes.
To anyone that (knew or) didn't know- here is a tidbit: When adding editions to a AIO, the files (duplicates) that are also in other editions that are in the install.wim are not added again but instead are substituted by place holders so that when its called, it comes from the other edition that was already added.
Similar to Cdimage when making a windows XP AIO The optimize parameter in the CDImage can compress the contents of the generated ISO file by recording the duplicate files one time only, this greatly reduce size the X-in-1 CDs.
True, but gimagex, being a gui for imagex, freezes sometimes. Need a updated version. I may write a batch gui. Just because :O
Wrong. Imagex or dism is. Unless a cmd is too much to handle, at wich case IMO you have no business editing an OS for deployment.