I have some realy basic questions for a person who knows WAIK. There is wim image on recovery partition. 1. How can I restore that image using imagex (with srp partition and second partition assuming that wim doesnt partition drive by it self) 2. How can i make/burn recovery Discs from wim image that is on recovery partition I am just instaling WAIK.....
Dont think you can use Imagex to restore the wim. Well if you captured the image you can just replace the old install.wim with your new one..
Hmmm i dont get it. Here is what I am trying to do. I have a laptop with a HDD that dont pass SMART check but i can copy files from recovery partiton. And I am trying to restore system to a new drive and i could think only 3 ways. 1. Is to clone the recovery partition (that doesnt work cause its damaged) 2. Try to deploy over network never done that so its a long shot. 3. is to somehow create recovery discs from that recovery partition (im now playing with WAIK and see where that will lead me but I am sceptic that i can learn how to solve above problem)
How big is the Install.wim file on your recovery Partition ? as you could do this... imagex /split image_filedest_filesize {/check} Splits an existing .wim file into multiple read-only split .wim files (.swm). Important You must run this option from Windows PE. image_file Specifies the name and location of the .wim file to split. dest_file Specifies the file path of the split files. size Specifies the maximum size in megabytes (MB) for each created file. This option generates the .swm files into the specified directory, naming each file the same as the specified image_file, but with an appended number and the .swm file-name extension. For example, if you choose to split a file named Data.wim, this option creates a Data.swm file, a Data2.swm file, a Data3.swm file, and so on, defining each portion of the split .wim file. You can also set the following option: /check Checks the integrity of the .wim file. If not provided, existing checks are removed. For example, imagex /split d:\imaging\data.wim 600
you will get this... Splits an existing .wim file into multiple read-only split .wim files (.swm). to deploy, create a bootable winpe disk that has imagex.exe in the windows/system32 folder, then boot and at command propt type imagex /apply "Loation of your files"\"The name you called it".wim "index number 1,2,3 etc.." c: like "imagex /apply E:\Image.wim 1 c:"