is it any good to use the "wimboot" to setup a pc with a harddrive? is it slower? if it is duable... hmm how do i slipstream a KMS activtion into the wimboot..or the install.Wim..or any other file perhaps?
Imagine using hardly compressed files from that drive ... makes not much sense . Even when running from a SSD it's slightly slower than a normal install. Only advantage is a very small OS footprint ... which doesn't matter normally on a conventional drive.
Huih ... my dad might be a sir, i'm definitely not . It's mainly meant to be used on devices with fast but small system 'drives', like tablets and similiar. That enables OEMs to build cheaper Win devices .
It's actually very much recommended against using on a normal rotational hard disk. Where normal installs try to position files in a sequential manner to avoid ping-ponging, WimBoot images do not. This is because SSD do not have the big issue with seek times that rotational drives have. I have tested it shortly after it was available on my rotational hard drive and I had a slower system with a lot of seek sounds (hard to describe, but it sounds like your hard disk is going insane) These might be minimized if you created 2 partitions right next to eachother with one being the WimBoot image partition and the other being the Windows partition, but I doubt it would help all that much. It's just not designed to be used with a non-SSD.