Little help with editing a .wim file please (imagex).
Hi All,
Im having great difficulty with trying to mount a .wim file using imagex so that i can edit some files in my XP image. Basically i want to get into the file system of the image to delete the images WDS saves on the local disk when creating the .wim file (I syspreped the image twice so it has 2 of them and about 9GB worth of wasted space and a lot of loading time).
Anyways i have searched on the internet and im obviously missing s step somewhere because it will not mount the image for me. So here is the situation.
My WDS partition is F:\
This partition has all the standard WDS folders in it, in the "Images" folder i have 2 groups which are VISTA and XP. I want to edit an image in the "images" folder. The name of this image is "Dell260-XPSP3.wim". This is the second XP image i have created. So also in this folder is anotehr image called "DELLGX260-XP.wim" and then their is the RES.RWM file. So i know i am probably not making much sense but basically i mount and edit the contents of;
F:\RemoteInstall\Images\XP\Dell260-XPSP3.wim
Any ideas on how on earth i do this i would be very grateful. I have tried;
imagex /mountrw F:\RemoteInstall\Images\XP Dell260-XPSP3.wim F:\mount
All it says is Number of mounted image:0
Any ideas?
Im having great difficulty with trying to mount a .wim file using imagex so that i can edit some files in my XP image. Basically i want to get into the file system of the image to delete the images WDS saves on the local disk when creating the .wim file (I syspreped the image twice so it has 2 of them and about 9GB worth of wasted space and a lot of loading time).
Anyways i have searched on the internet and im obviously missing s step somewhere because it will not mount the image for me. So here is the situation.
My WDS partition is F:\
This partition has all the standard WDS folders in it, in the "Images" folder i have 2 groups which are VISTA and XP. I want to edit an image in the "images" folder. The name of this image is "Dell260-XPSP3.wim". This is the second XP image i have created. So also in this folder is anotehr image called "DELLGX260-XP.wim" and then their is the RES.RWM file. So i know i am probably not making much sense but basically i mount and edit the contents of;
F:\RemoteInstall\Images\XP\Dell260-XPSP3.wim
Any ideas on how on earth i do this i would be very grateful. I have tried;
imagex /mountrw F:\RemoteInstall\Images\XP Dell260-XPSP3.wim F:\mount
All it says is Number of mounted image:0
Any ideas?
Comments
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Claymoore
Member Posts: 1,637
You're missing the image volume number in your command:
imagex /mountrw F:\RemoteInstall\Images\XP Dell260-XPSP3.wim # F:\mount
How to find the image number
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Jordus
Banned Posts: 336
claymoore is correct.
Also, do not forgoet the /commit switch when you are unmounting....a lot of folks do this and totally lose all the changes they made.