Saturday, June 8, 2013

Mounting disks on a wim

Well another little bit changed in windows great is mounting wim files.  A wim (Windows Imaging File Format)  is the type of file that stores an entire hard disk.  Sometimes these need to be edited to insert files that will be copied to the hard disk during install.  Back in the day we used to use a program called imageX.  I don't think Malcolm had anything to do with it.  In 8 we will use the DISM (Deployment Image Servicing and Management) utility.

basic syntax is:
dism /Mount-Image /ImageFile:c:\users\cclose\desktop\image\factory.wim /index:1 /MountDir:c:\users\cclose\desktop\image\Mount
dism /Commit-Image /MountDir:c:\users\cclose\desktop\image\Mount

Here's a link to more information from Microsoft.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh824814.aspx

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