Windows 8.1 Update 1 WimBOOT discussion

Discussion in 'Windows 8' started by murphy78, Mar 6, 2014.

  1. murphy78

    murphy78 MDL DISM Enthusiast

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    That zipmagic stuff? It does seem odd to go around promoting it in unrelated places.
     
  2. Carlos Detweiller

    Carlos Detweiller Emperor of Ice-Cream

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    It's called 'spam'. :p
     
  3. cutesniper22

    cutesniper22 MDL Novice

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    hi, murphy78.
    May I know can I embed the product key?
    and I found this cmd
    Example : Dism /Image:C:\test\offline /Set-ProductKey:12345-67890-12345-67890-12345

    Does this work on wimboot image? In which step should I apply this cmd? Thanks~
     
  4. maxim4500

    maxim4500 MDL Novice

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    Hi!
    How to edit wimboot image?
    Not problem!

    1. DISM /Apply-Image /ImageFile:"D:\install.wim" /Index:1 /ApplyDir:C:\ /WIMBoot
    2. DISM /Apply-Image /ImageFile:"D:\custom.wim" /SWMFile:"D:\install.wim" /ApplyDir:C: /Index:1
    3. Edit the image to your taste.
    4 .DISM /Capture-CustomImage /CaptureDir:C:\
    5. Finish. Customized to fit you image. (install.wim and custom.wim)
    sorry for my English
     
  5. crashnburn

    crashnburn MDL Addicted

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    #265 crashnburn, Mar 1, 2016
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    Few long pending questions:

    - Can I do this with an existing Win 8.1?

    - Is it possible to have a WIMBOOT 8.1 on Native Boot VHD?

    - Can a WIMBOOT 8.1 setup be upgraded to Win 10 WIM Boot in the future?
    - If not, can it be reversed, upgraded and then wimbooted again?
     
  6. crashnburn

    crashnburn MDL Addicted

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    @murphy78 @abbodi1406
     
  7. abbodi1406

    abbodi1406 MDL KB0000001

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    - No

    - I don't know, but probably yes

    - WIMBOOT is deprecated in Windows 10 and replaced with CompactOS mode
    i don't know if upgrade will work
     
  8. crashnburn

    crashnburn MDL Addicted

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    I read that.

    But was there not a way to SWITCH or CONVERT between the 2 modes?
    i.e. Wimboot vs Normal
    OR
    CompactOS vs Normal

    If thats doable, one can shift to normal, upgrade and then recompact?
     
  9. murphy78

    murphy78 MDL DISM Enthusiast

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    First off, wimboot only works in 8.1 iirc. Like abbodi1406 said, it has been replaced by compactos in win10. If you use a compressed vhd for a vm you will learn that even a normal install does not use a very large footprint. Compactos will be even smaller.
    I haven't played with booting to a vhd on a real system. I don't even know how to do it. I'd have to look into it. I'm not entirely sure why you'd want to. I don't know about the ramifications of using compressed folders or compactos compared to the normal os functionality. It could be that there are background processes that constantly run to make up for the space savings or that you pay a time crunch when attempting to access the files up front.

    The process to using compactos is:
    Code:
    compact /compactos:query (This will let you know if your system already has it enabled. Setup does this if your system drive is very small.)
    compact /compactos:always (Switches your system to compactos mode)
    compact /compactos:never (Turns off compactos mode and reverts to normal Windows setting)
    As far as doing a wimboot on a vhd, what's the point? They're both a single file.