As the title says - Can you ? I was able to boot into WinPe, but when applying image I cant select a applydir option, for obvious reasons. Guess this cant be done ??
install from ntfs or iso mounting in vmware as hard drive or dvd drive respectly cheers, here my setup with just an iso as an idea
Yes you can apply a wim file to a partition, but it's a lot more complicated than that. Certain partition schemes have certain rules. MBR needs an active primary partition for the system partition and the windows partition needs to be on a primary partition as well. Any extra recovery partitions in mbr need id=27 setting.. GPT scheme is a bit more involved, but you don't have to deal with the Active partition stuff.
What I am trying now is - I have booted into WinPE in vmware and connected my usb which has install.wim. I will now use diskpart to create primary partition in vmware and try installing the image using dism. Will update if all goes well.
Done 1. I booted with WinPE. 2. Connect my USB which has only install.wim file in it. 3. Used diskpart to create primary partition inside vmware. 4. Used dism to install my wim file 5. Rebooted and its working Thats in short ^^
Make a whd on the real machine (trough the windows disk manager), mount it, apply the image, make the partition active and install the bootloader using bcdboot. Unmount the vhd from the real machine and use it on the virtual one No reboot or interruption of the work involved in this way It's harder to explain than to do. (optionally you can convert the image from vhd to vmdk with one of the many tools available, like winimage or the virtualbox command line tool)