Installing Windows 7 by combining its install.wim with Windows 10

Discussion in 'Windows 7' started by catsmoke, Oct 23, 2018.

  1. acer-5100

    acer-5100 MDL Guru

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    Again dont speak as SMS, Instal "it"... what is it? What are you trying to do? Are you (trying to) deploying from the host, or that command is intended as in the guest?

    How did you create the partition? (I assume you didn't create any partition, so you have nothing to format....)

    As usual if you do random things you get random results, (rarely the intended one)
     
  2. schwanke

    schwanke MDL Novice

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    I’m trying to install it in a virtual machine. VMware. I don’t have a physical pc yet to test it out on yet.
    How do I create a partition?
     
  3. acer-5100

    acer-5100 MDL Guru

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    Ok let restart from the beginning.

    What happens if you do an old school installation starting from the ISO as everyone is used since the last millennium?

    What you exactly did to get the vhd? Did you use winntsetup/ dism o whatever?
     
  4. schwanke

    schwanke MDL Novice

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    I made the vhd using virtual box disk manager
     
  5. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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    Please show us a screenshot of the error.
     
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  6. acer-5100

    acer-5100 MDL Guru

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    Did you initialized it as MBR disk, did you format it, did you make the partition active, did you use bcdboot to install the bootloader after deploying the OS on it?

    Again, until you familiarize well with the concept is better if you use winntsetup that does all the needed steps for you in a couple of clicks