Kari, thanks for reply. I will try it.

thank you. As you said, it replaces the existing install.wim by a new one, in which OOBE is bypassed except password.

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Kari, I would like to ask a related question. In this...

thank you!

It is great tutorial. In my case, I have a USB bootable drive, which has drive letter F.

I have a question on the command,

dism /Unmount-Image /MountDir:C:\Mount /Commit

Will this command...

Paul and hsehestedt,

after many tries, I found my problem. Before Step 3.1, I booted from my WinPE, whereas in Kari's tutorial, it actually booted from Windows. Thank you.

xinren

Thanks for the replies and sorry for late response.

I have tried three times.
1. when I try to recover, I do see the option of Windows and recovery. However, I got an error: "windows setup:...

I read an excellent tutorial from Kari, "Factory recovery -- Create a Custom Recovery Partition", 106215. Somehow, I cannot repeat the procedure. I am wondering whether anyone has successfully repeat...

I have a pdf from Microsoft, Windows Manufacturering, which contains 1077 pages. I do not see the version number, and I do not know whether it is the latest/greatest? Thanks in advance.

Kari, thanks for the wonderful tutorial.

I follow the procedure, but I got an error on restoring the image. "windows setup: Windows could not display the image for installation".
1. Is there is...

hsehestedt,

thanks for the info.
1. there were two typos in my previous post,

dism /capture-image /imagefile:E:\install.wim /capturedir:F:\ /ScratchDir:E:\Scratch /name:"anyname"...

I have a separate partition on SSD.

1. I use winpe usb to boot, and I have winpeinit command window. In the command window, I have
dism /capture-image /imagefile:E:\install.wim /capturedir:D:\...

I have a separate partition and so I store the install.wim on this partition. I boot the system using WinPE, and use dism /capture-image ... to generate the install.wim. I did not run sysprep. I was...

I have a WinPE bootable USB drive. Using the bootable drive, I can start the system using WinPE, and I made an install.wim file for the Windows partition. Now, I try to apply this install.wim to the...

I have tried /compress:fast. The size of the wim file now is 8.9Gbytes.
1. using SSD, it takes about 4:30 minutes.
2. using USB dongle, it takes more than 30 minutes.

SIW2,

Thanks for the information. I will try it.

I have a WinPE bootable USB drive. After booting from the usb, I use
dism /capture-image /imagefile:E:\install.wim /capturedir:D:\ /ScratchDir:E:\Scratch /name:"AnyName" /compress:maximum...