Tuesday 29 September 2015

Windows 8.1 WIMBOOT INSTALL PACK solved

WINDOWS 8.1 WIMBOOT by CHRIS CORONER WARD (www.facebook.com/drwardz)

PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE INSTALL FILES (pre-setup for easy install)
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=930D91D3418195D8!616&authkey=!AFB_ojTXRrpS9dk&ithint=file%2czip

Windows PE iso has the windows updates and winpe 5.1 already to go

RUN ADKSETUP.EXE and choose IMAGE DEPLOYMENT (DISM) option

PREPARING WINPE USB

1. Open Rufus bootable USB creator
2. select your usb drive (topbox)
3. next to make bootable click the choose ISO button
4. select WinPE5.1 Wimboot ready

PREPARING MAIN HDD/SSD/eMMC

1. bootup using winPE USB. when loaded you will only see a cmd/terminal window
1.5 the following are commands to type into the CMD box
2. DISKPART
3. list disk
4. select disk 0
5. clean
6. convert gpt
7. create partition efi size=100
8. format quick fs=fat32 label="system"
9. create partition msr size=128
10. create partition primary
11. shrink minimum=3000
12. format quick fs=ntfs label="windows"
13. assign letter=c
14. create partition primary
15. format quick fs=ntfs label="images"
16. assign letter=m
17. set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"
18. gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001
19. list volume
20. exit

your hdd is now partitioned for Wimboot

PREPARING THE DIRECTORIES ON THE VOLUMES

1. MD "M:\Windows Images\"
2. copy install.wim from the downloaded folder too M:\Windows Images\
3. MD C:\recycler\scratch
4. set wim_skip_wimboot_check=1
5. DISM /apply-image /imagefile:"M:\windows images\install.wim" /applydir:C: /index:1 /WIMBoot /Scratchdir:C:\recycler\scratch
6. C:\windows\system32\bcdboot c:\windows
7. MD M:\recovery\windowsRE
8. copy winre.wim from downloaded dir using xcopy
xcopy E:\winre.wim M:\recovery\windowsre\winre.wim /h
9. C:\windows\system32\reagentc /setREImage /path M:\recovery\windowsre /target C:\windows

FINISHED!!!! RESET YOUR PC 

8 comments:

  1. Hi, Chris! The instructions are not clear for me. Why shoulw I install ADK?

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    1. The ADK is used to download DISM at the time of this writeup

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  2. hi,
    went crazy till I realised that you need to set the disk to UEFI/EFI boot mode.

    You also dont need to install ADK/AIK - it's on the WINPE USB boot drive under x:\windows\system32 (which is in the path anyway)

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    1. at the time the ADK was used to download the DISM .. dism wasnt installed any other way when i wrote this..

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    2. at the time the ADK was used to download the DISM .. dism wasnt installed any other way when i wrote this..

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    3. @Chris Coroner Can you upload this file from this link again because it no longer available. Thanks From Thailand

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    4. https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtiVgUHTkQ2ThEmM5C_wy_6sG64r

      no probs - its out dated now, but still a nice easy way to wimboot devices

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    5. Thank You, Yes it Out date but it use to be for me, cause i have 32gb ssd.

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