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  1. Kari
    Posts : 17,661
    Windows 10 Pro
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       New #10

    Ztruker said:
    This needs a tutorial written.
    @Martin has made a tutorial for it: Create bootable USB installer if install.wim is greater than 4GB

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  3. Ztruker
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    Windows 11 Pro X64 22H2 22621.1848
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    Thanks Kari, looks good.
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  4. nico963
    Posts : 2
    Windows 8.1
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    Hi,
    I've followed the tutorial till 2.3) Diskpart script but in my case I have one physical hard drive split in two partitions, one with Windows and the other with datas. As I'm abroad travelling for long time I'd like to deploy image on the Windows partition without touching the other partition cause I have a lot of documents that I cannot backup because of no external drive available now. Is it something possible to do or not ?
    UEFI base and GPT disk on Windows 8.1, image to deploy is on SD card.
    Thanks for your answer.
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  5. Davegbuf
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    Can anyone help? I am having some trouble with a scenario where I can only load an image from standard physical 4.5 GB DVDs. My "Dism /apply-image" fails at a certain point because it is expecting to find the next SWM file immediately in the same place (drive E: which is my DVD Drive). What I need is a way for the process to pause until I can insert the next DVD that contains the next SWM file in the series. As you can see, the command below will not work for the scenario that I have described:
    Dism /apply-image /imagefile:E:\install.swm /swmfile:E:\install*.swm /index:1 /applydir:W:\

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    I figured it out. After the step where you format the drive with Dispart, you can then create a temporary folder to store all of the *.SWM files. Then you can run the Dism Apply-Image command to apply the image from the temp folder. It doesn't matter that the image is applied to the same drive where the temporary files are located. Then when your done, you can delete the temporary folder.
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  7. Kari
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    Davegbuf said:
    I figured it out. After the step where you format the drive with Dispart, you can then create a temporary folder to store all of the *.SWM files. Then you can run the Dism Apply-Image command to apply the image from the temp folder. It doesn't matter that the image is applied to the same drive where the temporary files are located. Then when your done, you can delete the temporary folder.
    Yes, that is the only solution. You must create a partition to store all files of a split WIM image, store them on an external hard disk or NAS, or use USB flash drive.

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  8. Davegbuf
    Posts : 4
    Windows 10
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    I actually stored the split WIM files in the same partition that I loaded the image on. I used the Diskpart script that was in the article like this:

    Part 1 (260 MB) - Windows EFI/System partition
    Part 2 (16MB ) Microsoft MSR partition
    Part 3 - Windows 10 (OS partition) and assign drive letter W:
    Part 4 500MB Windows RE partition

    Then what that was done, I created a folder under W:\TEMP_IMAGE to store all SWM files until the image is loaded. The "W:\TEMP_IMAGE" folder does not exist in the image so it is OK to image the same partition since it is not going to overwrite anything.
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  9. avismile10
    Posts : 32
    windows 100586.164
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    @Kari Thanks for this great tutorial, just a quick note, I've been successfully using swm files to install windows 10 for quite a while. The only issue is, it seems there is a bug with the setup that the copy percentage is only for the fist SWM file, meaning it could stay for a long time at 100% while it is actually still copying over the other SWM parts to the installation disk. I only figured this out by looking at the setupact.log to see why my setup is stuck at 100%

    Some some excerpts from the setupact.log
    2021-04-14 16:08:02, Info IBS SetSelectedImageInfoOnBB:no FLAGS field retrieved for image; hr = 0x80070490
    2021-04-14 16:08:02, Info [0x060088] IBS CheckAdditionalMediaRequirements:Image part count is [3]
    2021-04-14 16:08:02, Info [0x060089] IBS CheckAdditionalMediaRequirements:Looking for image file [C:\Sources\install2.swm]
    2021-04-14 16:08:02, Info [0x06008a] IBS CheckAdditionalMediaRequirements:Found image file [C:\Sources\install2.swm]
    2021-04-14 16:08:02, Info [0x06008c] IBS CheckAdditionalMediaRequirements:Image file is not a match[gle=0x00000490]
    2021-04-14 16:08:02, Info [0x060089] IBS CheckAdditionalMediaRequirements:Looking for image file [C:\Sources\install3.swm]
    2021-04-14 16:08:02, Info [0x06008a] IBS CheckAdditionalMediaRequirements:Found image file [C:\Sources\install3.swm]
    2021-04-14 16:08:02, Info [0x06008c] IBS CheckAdditionalMediaRequirements:Image file is not a match[gle=0x00000490]
    2021-04-14 16:13:40, Info [0x0a0029] UI progress task ProgressInfo\CopySetupFiles received 201 steps but was only supposed to receive 100.
    2021-04-14 16:13:43, Info [0x0a0029] UI progress task ProgressInfo\CopySetupFiles received 202 steps but was only supposed to receive 100.
    2021-04-14 16:13:49, Info [0x0a0029] UI progress task ProgressInfo\CopySetupFiles received 203 steps but was only supposed to receive 100.
    2021-04-14 16:13:51, Info [0x0a0029] UI progress task ProgressInfo\CopySetupFiles received 204 steps but was only supposed to receive 100.
    2021-04-14 16:13:52, Info [0x0a0029] UI progress task ProgressInfo\CopySetupFiles received 211 steps but was only supposed to receive 100.
    2021-04-14 16:13:53, Info [0x0a0029] UI progress task ProgressInfo\CopySetupFiles received 212 steps but was only supposed to receive 100.
    2021-04-14 16:13:58, Info [0x0a0029] UI progress task ProgressInfo\CopySetupFiles received 213 steps but was only supposed to receive 100.
    2021-04-14 16:13:59, Info [0x0a0029] UI progress task ProgressInfo\CopySetupFiles received 214 steps but was only supposed to receive 100.
    2021-04-14 16:14:02, Info [0x0a0029] UI progress task ProgressInfo\CopySetupFiles received 215 steps but was only supposed to receive 100.
    2021-04-14 16:14:05, Info [0x0a0029] UI progress task ProgressInfo\CopySetupFiles received 216 steps but was only supposed to receive 100.

    2021-04-14 16:14:09, Info [0x0a0029] UI progress task ProgressInfo\CopySetupFiles received 217 steps but was only supposed to receive 100.
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  10. RuLich
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    Windows 10 21H2/Windows 11 21H2 (22000.100)
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    Hello, I can't find anywhere how to combine the two files "install.swm and install2.swm" into one file install esd or install.wim.
    Thanks for the tutorial.
    ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

    So I somehow managed to solve it.
    I copied both files to my Downloads folder.
    In CMD he put:
    Code:
    cd %userprofile%\downloads
    and since I wanted all indexes I put this:

    Code:
    dism /export-image /sourceimagefile:install.swm /swmfile:install*.swm /sourceindex:1 /destinationimagefile:installFirst.wim /Compress:max /CheckIntegrity
dism /export-image /sourceimagefile:install.swm /swmfile:install*.swm /sourceindex:2 /destinationimagefile:installFirst.wim /Compress:max /CheckIntegrity
dism /export-image /sourceimagefile:install.swm /swmfile:install*.swm /sourceindex:3 /destinationimagefile:installFirst.wim /Compress:max /CheckIntegrity
    What should be the order on all indexes? Thank you
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  11. SIW2
    Posts : 4,580
    several
       New #18

    dism /export-image /sourceimagefile:install.swm /swmfile:install*.swm /sourceindex:1 /destinationimagefile:install.wim

    but you have to do one image at a time.

    If the swm files contain several images it is easier to use dism++ which will do all the images.

    DISM - Split install.wim file-dism-wim-esd.jpg

    DISM - Split install.wim file-dism-wim-esd2.jpg

    DISM - Split install.wim file-dism-wim-esd3.jpg

    or with imagex.exe

    imagex /ref install*.swm /export install.swm * target.wim
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  13. RuLich
    Posts : 100
    Windows 10 21H2/Windows 11 21H2 (22000.100)
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    dism++ also converts one at a time and not all at once. But thanks for the effort and help anyway.

    So, the transfer is suddenly not possible?
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