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I know that if you use to deploy through SCCM default instal.wim (from Windows Vista or Windows 7 instalation media) it will arrive on a D:\ drive, becuase all we know. But when I start testing with a local PC and appling image using ImageX /apply option to a partition with C:\ letter, write boot inf. (using bcdboot) it all goes good. The OS is boot to OOBE, ask lang., user name, time zone, etc. and start as after normal (through Setup.exe method) installation. And now I want to know, if it dangerously to apply image to a local PC without Setup.exe?

I need help imaging Windows 7 (64) Enterprise. I have been trying to use both the BrianJackson WinPE3.1 with GimageX on a usb stick and also a build using just ImageX. I can capture the image with both ImageX and Gimagex but I have been unable to apply the image. GImageX will look at the captured image and after a while will just close. If I try to apply it using Imagex then after a bit I see a message pop on the screen that says my PC has encountered a problem and then reboots. I have been unable to read the entire message before it reboots but it does not apply the image. I have tried using diskpart with no system partition created as one person told me that they do not use or create that and it works. The Microsoft pages all tell me that I have to create the Windows system partition but even doing that does not work. The times that I have managed to get a different image onto the computer the system will not boot and when trying to run BCDEdit and BCDBoot tell me there is no configuration store and so boot files never get copied to that partition. We do not have a Microsoft network so we are not using Active Directory or SCCM so deployment is not an option. The hardware that I am capturing the image from is identical to the hardware that I am applying it to and those are Intel DQ67 motherboards with 500gb hard drives and 8gb ram. Can someone help me find what I am missing in this process? It does not seem that hard and should work but definitely has not worked yet. Thank you.

Hi, I am trying to create a wim file using sysprep and imagex. However when it comes time to boot into windows pe on my virtual machine, i cannot do this. I have tried buring the pe file to an ISO and booting the vm from this, but no joy. What is the best way to do this? Thanks

Hi all, I'm engineering an MDT2012 Task Sequence to migrate users from XP to 7. First I use Hard link migration, then I reboot to capture a .WIM backup using ZTIBackup data in WinPE, followd by the Windows installation. In Win7 to Win7, I seem to never have any issue, deployments complete without any problems. However in Xp to 7, using PC's with actual user data, I am experiencing a very high, nearly 85% failure on the ImageX step. I get errors in ZTIBackup.log and in BDD.log that the system cannot find the file specified. Fearing disk errors, I've added a Disk Cleanup pass that runs: cmd.exe /c reg import "%deployroot%\Scripts\Custom\cleanmgr.reg" cleanmgr /sagerun:777 Which I've confirmed works for those purposes. I've also added a Check Disk /f /x command in front of the Wim backup step in WinPE, which I've also confirmed works as expected. So...I'm not sure why in the world this keeps happening. Every PC seems to do this on a different file, which always is located in the User's profile somewhere, normally the desktop. I've done numerous google searches but it also seems that no one ever gets to the bottom of this. The USMT hard link works as expected and the user's lose no data. Still, this is very strange behavior. imageX errors.txt

Hi guys I am all new to using ImageX to capture images of Windows 7 and could use a good advice. I have made myself a customized Windows PE image that I have added an additional folder called “Tools” to. In this folder I have added some command line tools that might be handy to have when I boot on my Windows PE image. It would be nice if this path was included to the path environment at boot time so I don't need to change directory to use these command line tools. How can I easily add an extra path environment to my Windows PE image?