In my current place, I have to move a lot of ghost images to.wim format. For now, I am using ghost explorer - Expand to folder-make to.wim using gimagex/imagex. This is working fine for now. (takes under 15 minutes for a 2GB. Gho file to expand and be be sucked back in.wim) I was wondering if someone has a best practices for this type of conversion. Or Best practices for images which are already sysprepped and in ghost/altiris formats.
All I could find was guides devoted for Windows V and V II (and that too for task sequence based installs).
One my colleagues asked me if we could convert a Ghost image to a WIM image which can be deployed using MDT. So I did a bit of research and was able to achieve it. Some back ground about the Ghost image I used: Our Ghost XP image has 3 partitions with C:, D: and E. We allocate the below sizes for these partitions when using Ghost to deploy the image. C: drive – 50% (OS), D: drive – 40% (DATA) and E: drive 10% (MISC) C: drive has the Operating System, D: drive has user profiles and other data, E: drive has miscellaneous data.
Below is how I converted these to WIM images and later deployed using MDT. I am using MDT 2012 beta 2 and this method should ideally work with MDT 2010 though I have never tried. We would be using two deployment shares. The first deployment share (XPGhost) is used to capture the XP partitions to WIM files. The second deployment share (XPDeploy) is where you import the captured WIM files which are then deployed on target machines. Mcosy Says: Why this error when deploying d drive? Expand a string: WinPEandFullOS TSManager 5:30:59 PM 1532 (0x05FC) Executing command line: “%DeployRoot% Tools X64 imagex.exe” /apply “%DeployRoot% Operating Systems Win7DDrive XPDDrive.wim” 1 “%DDrive%” TSManager 5:30:59 PM 1532 (0x05FC) Process completed with exit code 2 TSManager 5:30:59 PM 1532 (0x05FC)!——————————————————————————————–! TSManager 5:30:59 PM 1532 (0x05FC) Failed to run the action: Install D Drive.
The system cannot find the file specified. (Error: 00000002; Source: Windows) TSManager 5:30:59 PM 1532 (0x05FC).
You might want to try using Windows AIK. Oscdimg will allow you to create an iso from an.wim file. It will gather all the files and put it into an iso. I know it works cause that is what I do to install and test on vmware. Link Command: oscdimg.exe –bC: expandedSetup boot etfsboot.com –u2 –h -m -lWINENDVD C: expandedSetup C: Win7.iso The -m option doesn't appear to be working It is also not listed in the /? File for OSCDIMG when I try and convert my 6.6gb image it comes back and says its larger then 4GB and errors out. Any suggestions around that?
Is it possible that ADK is causing issues with the AIK command? Well I uninstalled Win8 ADK, and ran a Repair of AIK, for no change. The -m function does not appear to be part of the oscdimg.exe command structure any longer.
If you didn't receive your file, your email provider may have intercepted the email, so it would be best to add to your trusted contacts list and try the conversion again. Farsi words in english. Q: Is there a limit to the file size I can convert? What happened to it? Yes, we will only convert files that are no more than 50 pages or 5MB in size. Depending on load, it can take around 5-10 minutes to convert and deliver an average PDF file, but it may take more time for files with lots of pages or complex formatting.
Which appears to limit my ISO image size to 4GB. Does anyone have any additional suggestions? Vistaking's suggestion would work except for the size issue, as I was able to use it for a smaller ISO. Thanks, Pakka. You might want to try using Windows AIK. Oscdimg will allow you to create an iso from an.wim file.
It will gather all the files and put it into an iso. I know it works cause that is what I do to install and test on vmware. Link Command: oscdimg.exe –bC: expandedSetup boot etfsboot.com –u2 –h -m -lWINENDVD C: expandedSetup C: Win7.iso The -m option doesn't appear to be working It is also not listed in the /?
File for OSCDIMG when I try and convert my 6.6gb image it comes back and says its larger then 4GB and errors out. Any suggestions around that? Is it possible that ADK is causing issues with the AIK command? Well I uninstalled Win8 ADK, and ran a Repair of AIK, for no change. The -m function does not appear to be part of the oscdimg.exe command structure any longer. Which appears to limit my ISO image size to 4GB.
Does anyone have any additional suggestions? Vistaking's suggestion would work except for the size issue, as I was able to use it for a smaller ISO. Thanks, Pakka Looking at this link it does state that there is a -m switch which Ignores the maximum size limit of an image. Try this switch ' -maxsize:4096 ' without the ' -m ' switch. Similar help and support threads Thread Forum First off, yes I want an iCalendar vs an Outlook calendar file because, heresy of heresies, I prefer Thunderbird to Outlook. My work doesn't offer an option to download the weekly schedule as a file, and my schedule changes so. Microsoft Office Is there a piece of software that can convert a gif file to an Icon File?
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I just setup and sysprepped a nice new VM, now I need to convert it to a wim real quick, to upload to my sccm server. For some reason, I can't change the VM properties to boot from a legacy nic for pxe, which is how I usually capture my images using sccm. VMM just changes the settings right back, even though it says successful. Anyway, the first page of google was terrible for this, w/ the exception of a 3rd party.ps1 script on MS's website, but I'm using 2012r2, I should be able to do this natively, right? Absolutely, let's post a prim and proper answer for Google. This is a simple 2 command Powershell execution, using the dism module.
The dism can be copied to earlier versions of Windows, provided you have the appropriate version of the windows management framework. First, mount the vhd using Mount-WindowsImage -ImagePath C: VHDs BigHomies.vhdx -Path C: VHDMount -Index 1 Then, capture it into a wim with New-WindowsImage -CapturePath C: VHDMount -Name Win7Image -ImagePath C: CapturedWIMs Win7.wim -Description 'Yet another Windows 7 Image' -Verify And let it do it's thing. When you are done you can unmount the vhd and discard any changes using: Dismount-WindowsImage -Path C: VHDMount -Discard.
The volume is somehow corrupted: Instead of capturing the reference machine before it boots the first time after applying the Ghost image, let it boot. Then, use a Capture CD to capture the image. The capture CD is not bootable, must be launched from within Windows, and requires sysprep in C: sysprep. Re-syspreping the image is not a best practice, but it should get you around the issue (or make the problem apparent). I don't know the technical why of what's happening, but I suspect it has to do with the Ghost imaging process leaving the system in an unusual state until is is booted the first time after imaging.
WIMs are not sector by sector images - they are essentially CAB files; i.e., file-based compressed archives. This difference is causing some irregularity and thus the issue.
Jason Twitter @JasonSandys. I also agree with what your saying Niall but i just want to get us to the point where we can deploy an image using our current SCCM infrastructure and then later on create a new version with SCCM, i guess time and workload are the issue.
Jason i'll write the steps out, when i posted this last night i was at home and was going from memory. Use ghost to deploy image onto VM ghost completes succesfully power off machine. Boot VM into winpe F8 to command line support map network drive and use imagex to capture system. Capture completes successfully, import wim into SCCM and Distribute to DP.
Create new task seq using wim image. 5 Run task seq, this finishes and reboots with no errors. System starts the Mini setup 'please wait while windows prepares to start' 7. Then it sits on windows XP setup 'Please wait.' And doesn't really move on from here the mouse also becomes unresponsive and there is no drive activity. I get bored and restart the box press f5 and disable Automatic restarts just incase. System boots again to the windows XP setup, interestingly this time the screen resolution has changed to 1280 by 1024 maybe it installed the correct driver.
Autocad 2014 mavericks keygen mac. 10 message about unable to change admin password, that's expected as the image was created with ghost and i could not set admin pass to blank. Adds to domain and does final cleanup reboots and i get BSOD UNMOUNTABLEBOOTVOLUME stop 0x000000ED (0x86183980, 0xc00014f,0x00000000,0x00000000) If i use the same ghost image on the same system it works fine. Does anyone have any idea what this could be? Ghost is sector based and imagex is file based could this be the reason why? The volume is somehow corrupted: Instead of capturing the reference machine before it boots the first time after applying the Ghost image, let it boot. Then, use a Capture CD to capture the image. The capture CD is not bootable, must be launched from within Windows, and requires sysprep in C: sysprep.
Re-syspreping the image is not a best practice, but it should get you around the issue (or make the problem apparent). I don't know the technical why of what's happening, but I suspect it has to do with the Ghost imaging process leaving the system in an unusual state until is is booted the first time after imaging. WIMs are not sector by sector images - they are essentially CAB files; i.e., file-based compressed archives. This difference is causing some irregularity and thus the issue. Jason Twitter @JasonSandys.