Capture and apply a Windows prototype using a unmarried .WIM file

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Capture a Windows image (.WIM) file and utilize it to deploy Windows to new devices.

You tin start with either the install.wim file from a Windows distribution ISO, or you tin can generalize and capture a running Windows image into a .WIM file.

WIM files simply capture a unmarried partition. Y'all can usually capture just the Windows partition, and so use files from that image to set up up the rest of the partitions on the drive. If you've created a custom partition configuration, run across Capture and Utilise Windows, System, and Recovery Partitions.

Diagram showing a new computer with an empty hard drive, plus a single .wim image file, expands to become multiple configured partitions

Capture the epitome

  1. If you've booted into Windows, generalize the epitome so that it tin be deployed to other devices. For more information, meet Sysprep (Generalize) a Windows installation.

  2. Boot the device using Windows PE.

  3. Optional Optimize the image to reduce the time it takes your device to boot after you employ the epitome. Optimizing an image especially helps when you're building an image that you'll exist deploying to many machines, similar in a build-to-stock scenario.

                      DISM /image:C:\ /optimize-epitome /boot

  4. Capture the Windows partition. For example:

                      Dism /Capture-Image /ImageFile:"D:\Images\Fabrikam.wim" /CaptureDir:C:\ /Name:Fabrikam

    Where D: is a USB flash drive or other file storage location.

Employ the paradigm

  1. Boot the device using Windows PE.

  2. Wipe the hard bulldoze and gear up up new hard disk partitions using a script. Employ CreatePartitions-UEFI.txt (or CreatePartitions-BIOS.txt for older, legacy BIOS devices).

                      diskpart /s CreatePartitions-UEFI.txt

  3. Utilize the images using a script.

                      D:\ApplyImage.bat D:\Images\Fabrikam.wim

Sample script

Below is an simple sample script that applies an image to a deejay that'southward been partitioned using i of the hard disk sectionalization scripts from step 2.

              rem == ApplyImage.bat ==  rem == These commands deploy a specified Windows rem    image file to the Windows partition, and configure rem    the organization partitioning.  rem    Usage:   ApplyImage WimFileName  rem    Example: ApplyImage E:\Images\ThinImage.wim ==  rem == Set high-performance power scheme to speed deployment == call powercfg /s 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c  rem == Apply the prototype to the Windows sectionalization == dism /Apply-Image /ImageFile:%1 /Index:1 /ApplyDir:W:\  rem == Copy boot files to the System sectionalization == Westward:\Windows\System32\bcdboot W:\Windows /s S:  :rem == Copy the Windows RE image to the :rem    Windows RE Tools partition == dr. R:\Recovery\WindowsRE xcopy /h W:\Windows\System32\Recovery\Winre.wim R:\Recovery\WindowsRE\  :rem == Register the location of the recovery tools == W:\Windows\System32\Reagentc /Setreimage /Path R:\Recovery\WindowsRE /Target Westward:\Windows  :rem == Verify the configuration status of the images. == West:\Windows\System32\Reagentc /Info /Target W:\Windows

Deploy Windows using Total Flash Update (FFU)

Capture and Apply Windows, Arrangement, and Recovery Partitions

Configure UEFI/GPT-Based Hard Drive Partitions

Configure BIOS/MBR-Based Hard Bulldoze Partitions

BCDboot Command-Line Options

REAgentC Control-Line Options