6.9 sp4 - WIM file capture is broken
Created: 16 Jun 2010 | 2 comments
So, I've been trying to upload a Windows 7 image as a .wim file.
Unfortunately, DS 6.9 SP4 does not understand the Windows 7 hidden service partition, thus when it tries to do an ImageX capture of C:, I get a worthless 8mb image file of just the service partition without the OS partition.
This seems like such an obvious bug. Am I missing something here? Do I need to somehow integrate the Windows 7 WAIK into DS 6.9 SP4?
I was thinking I might manually copy the Windows 7 WAIK tools to the express share, and run a custom automation script. This seems rather convaluted though.
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Unfortunately, I have to do
Unfortunately, I have to do this process manually using a USB thumbdrive with WinPE on it because of what you describe. You can create a bootable USB WinPE thumbdrive by following these instructions:
http://4sysops.com/archives/build-a-bootable-windo...
Windows 7E Base Image – ImageX Capture
net use y: \\server\eXpress
y:
cd WAIK\Tools\x86
imagex /capture /compress fast X: \\server\eXpress\Images\ImageX\W7E.wim "%COMPNAME%" /verify
imagex /capture /compress fast X: \\server\eXpress\Images\ImageX\boot.wim "System Reserve" /verify
X - use diskpart to determine the correct drive letters
From my experience, Altiris doesn't really provide a good framework for working with WIM images and all the associated tools. I'm going down this road because our organization is looking at SCCM so I'm hoping that the transition hopefully won't be as bad if I have a good understanding of Microsoft's tools and processes.
how would you push these down
how would you push these down then? because once you push down one it clears both of my partitions. IE I used diskpart to create 2 partitions, the system (C) and the windows (d) one. I pushed the wim system image c:\ and it ran fine, but then I couldn't push my image down to d: because it now didn't exist.
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